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May 2023
52m 23s

316. From ZERO English to Teaching Succe...

HADAR SHEMESH
About this episode

In this episode I had the opportunity to interview a fellow English teacher, Mariana Plesco from DLanguages. Mariana is originally from Moldova, and now teaches English…in Spanish! Mariana will share her story of learning four languages, and how she went from not speaking any English, to now teaching it to her platform of hundreds of thousands of learners, in her second language, Spanish. I can’t wait for you to listen to this episode

Read the article about Mariana: https://bit.ly/3ng2YFu Follow Mariana on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dlanguages/ Follow Mariana on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@dlanguages Subscribe to Mariana’s YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@dlanguages

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