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Speak English with Confidence | More Than Words

by Richard Marshall

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About the show

Speak English with Confidence | More Than Words (previously 'From Lost to the River') is a podcast for anyone who speaks English as a second language and wants to feel like themselves when they use it. Maybe you've spent years studying and practising, or you've built a life, a career or a family in English, and still something closes down when it matters. A meeting, a phone call, a chat with a neighbour. You overthink every sentence, you freeze, and you walk away wondering why the words wouldn't come out. For most people, the English is already there. What gets in the way is everything around it: the fear of making mistakes, the worry about being judged, the sense that you sound less clever or less like yourself than you really are. Confidence coach and author Richard Marshall shares extracts from his conversations. Some are with non-native speakers, from executives and pilots to teachers and language learners, showing you what confident English actually sounds like. Others are with polyglots, coaches, authors, linguists and native English speakers learning other languages themselves, exploring why we freeze, how perfectionism and imposter syndrome take hold, and what changes when you focus on being understood. Honest conversations for anyone learning, living or working in a language that isn't their own. Learn more about Richard and his forthcoming book More Than Words: Essays on Language, Identity, and the Courage to Speak at his website procoachenglish.com. You can contact him directly and join his Substack community at https://substack.com/@thecouragetospeak