Amir Ordabayev is an outstanding polyglot whom I got to know on the Internet, namely, on YouTube, where he started posting his videos 3 years ago. He’s a very nice person with a huge passion and drive for languages, as well as a very clear vision on how to deal with them. You can listen to his very interesting opinion on language learning in the video below:

After getting in contact with him, I had the chance to know him better, and our exchange wasn’t only limited to speaking languages. We decided to do a brief interview and exchange some ideas on culture, languages and life in general. We will most probably make another one on how he goes about learning languages – his techniques in terms of language acquisition and in sound perception and reproduction, something which is very good at! Continue reading »