Welcome to the inaugural episode of Teach Me, Too — the podcast for language educators who feel trapped between what they know works and what they're allowed to do.

In this first episode, LJ explores why emotional fluency — the ability to navigate frustration, vulnerability, and discomfort in language learning — is just as essential as linguistic fluency. Traditional curricula measure grammar accuracy and vocabulary retention, but they ignore the emotional reality of learning: the shame of making mistakes, the exhaustion of constant translation, the identity crisis of sounding inarticulate in a new language.

LJ offers five practical strategies for teaching emotional fluency alongside linguistic skills: normalizing struggle, building emotional vocabulary in the target language, creating low-stakes speaking opportunities, reframing mistakes as information, and teaching self-regulation. Through real teaching scenarios, this episode shows what emotional fluency pedagogy looks like in practice — and why it's foundational to helping students develop sustainable, confident fluency.

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Resources Mentioned

The Lesson Plans & Worksheet Library

A subscription resource with lesson plan arcs, worksheets, conversation frameworks, and reflection prompts designed around The Fluent Framework.

Available at: www.theimmersionstudio.com

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Action Step

This week, try one of these strategies: normalize struggle explicitly in your next class, teach one emotional vocabulary phrase, or reframe a student's mistake as information instead of correcting it immediately. Just one. And notice what happens.

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