Join me and others at the Language Career Summit – a modern ‘career day’ event for the foreign language industry. Read on to find out more about what to expect.

Back in 2012, the internet was a very different place. So different in fact, that I didn’t even consider it as a place to work.

So when I left my job in a school to start my own tutoring business, the internet was actually an annoyance.

“Well, you need to get a website”, people would tell me. I rolled my eyes.

“Do I? Really? Another task for the to do list?”

I agreed to my digital business card/shop window and set it up to pretty much leave it be for 2 years.

Then, I needed the internet. I needed to expand, to go beyond the students I’d been teaching in real life.

As I took things more seriously, I began to discover the countless ways you could teach languages online.

The truths and myths behind terms like “passive income” and “digital product” and “online course”.

A whole world of possibility opened up to me.

You see, I never really wanted to teach in a traditional sense. The idea of summer holidays was nice, but the thought of going home each day to mark book after book after book after…well, you get the point. It didn’t appeal.

Yet here in front of me stood a whole array of options through which I could teach languages, teach people how to learn languages, and even teach people how to teach online.

Where I am now isn’t a language career that could have been suggested or predicted back in school.

In fact, I do remember one teacher telling us that we would be going into a world of work with a whole host of jobs that didn’t exist then. That they were training us for a world that would look very different to how it did.

As much as I didn’t enjoy his assemblies, he was right.

So if you’ve loved languages for as long as you remember but always felt that teaching or translation weren’t for you (because that’s all your school careers advisor recommended), know that there’s so much more you can do.

Work that lights you up and lets you use your languages.

I’m so grateful for Kris Broholm of Actual Fluency creating an event about just this.

The Language Career Summit* is happening 12th-16th September 2022 and tickets are free for the duration of the event!

I’ll be sharing my full teaching story – from early days driving between students’ houses to hosting my favourite online program I’ve ever made.

Plus there’s lots more to look forward to as well. Other speakers and sessions include:

How to Succeed on YouTube in 2022 with English With Lucy

Why Language Teachers Should Consider Graduate Studies – Or Not with Betsy Gilliland

How to Use Instagram as an Online Teacher with Anneli Haake

Studying Languages at The Open University with Kan Qian

How to Become a Successful Language Tutor in the Online World and Work From Anywhere with Olly Richards

Can a Polyglot Become a Professional Interpreter with Thei Zervaki

How to lead an ethical, conscious, holistic and embodied language business with María Ortega García

What’s It Like Working for the EU? with Paul Kaye

Online Language School – Tool of the Trade with Alisa Zingerman

Empowering and Equipping People of Color for Global Success in Languages with Shahidah Foster

So much good stuff! Plus there’s daily VIP livestreams and Q+As with Kris if you upgrade to the VIP level.

Want to get full replay access and catch up on your time? You can upgrade your pass to watch the sessions as many times as you want. Yay!

Tickets are available here for the Language Career Summit*. (that’s my affiliate link, so if you do upgrade, you’re supporting both Actual Fluency and Lindsay Does Languages!)

See you there!