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Katerina is a Czech language coach who moved from the Czech Republic to Germany at nineteen and built her career explaining Czech to German native speakers, a niche she carved out for herself. In this episode of Connected By Language, she talks about the fear and structure that shaped her own German learning journey, why she barely speaks her native language anymore despite growing up with it, and how one supportive teacher taught her the difference between knowing a language in theory and actually living in it.

The conversation moves into how Katerina built an online language business from scratch, starting with a simple system of learning one new word a day and turning it into pre-recorded courses, coaching, and in-person retreats in Prague. She shares her philosophy on staying human on camera, why she never tries to convince hesitant students, and what she believes anyone starting a language business needs to understand about finding their own reason before chasing scale.

About the guest: https://www.tschechisch.online/

What is Tandem - Language exchange?

Tandem is a global language exchange app on a mission to connect the world through languages. Members build confidence and improve their language skills through real life conversations with native speakers in 1:1 chats or live audio rooms.

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0:00 Intro

0:22 From Forced to Fluent

17:22 Why Most People Fail at Languages and What Actually Works

44:22 What It Actually Takes to Turn a Language Into a Living

1:05:22 What She Would Tell Someone Starting From Zero

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What happens when the people who are supposed to teach you tell you you'll never make it?

For Natascha Moser (@german.language.coach), influencer with 400,000+ followers, and incoming managing director of Expo Lingua, that question shaped everything.

In this episode, Natascha shares how years of being told she had no talent in her own mother tongue became the foundation of a coaching philosophy built on identity, belief, and starting before you're ready.

We talk about her move to San Diego with a failing English grade, her semester in Buenos Aires where she studied human resources in Spanish (yes, really), and what it actually takes to thrive in a language beyond just moving to the country.

About the guest: https://www.instagram.com/german.language.coach/?hl=en

More about Expolingua 2026: https://www.expolingua.com/

What is Tandem - Language exchange?

Tandem is a global language exchange app on a mission to connect the world through languages. Members build confidence and improve their language skills through real life conversations with native speakers in 1:1 chats or live audio rooms.

🔗 Connect With Us: https://linktr.ee/Tandem_App

0:00 Intro

0:19 The Things They Said

29:38 Proving It In the Real World

48:19 Building a Philosophy From a Scar

1:03:08 What Language Still Owes Her

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Petr is a Czech linguist and freelancer who spent years treating English as just another school subject, until an early internet language exchange site opened up the world to him. From there he taught himself Russian in his thirties, not because he had to, but because he was drawn to the post-Soviet world and the vast geography a single language could unlock. He passed a B2 exam, traveled to Georgia to put his skills to the test, and built quiet long-lasting friendships along the way.

Then February 2022 arrived. When Ukrainian refugees began flooding into his city, Petr showed up to volunteer at the reception center, speaking a language he had learned entirely for personal curiosity, now suddenly needed in the most human way possible. In this episode we get into what that experience felt like, what a crisis teaches you about language that no classroom or app ever could, and how a hobby you build slowly over years can matter enormously in a single unexpected moment.

About the guest: https://freelancing.eu/petrloucka/

What is Tandem - Language exchange?

Tandem is a global language exchange app on a mission to connect the world through languages. Members build confidence and improve their language skills through real life conversations with native speakers in 1:1 chats or live audio rooms.

🔗 Connect With Us: https://linktr.ee/Tandem_App

0:00 Intro

4:36 From Classroom Boredom to Real Motivation

11:34 Building Russian From the Ground Up

38:33 The Moment It All Meant Something

54:43 The Dream That Started It and the Reality It Became

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