{"id":1551,"date":"2022-04-27T16:47:26","date_gmt":"2022-04-27T16:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.languagetesting.com\/blog\/?p=1551"},"modified":"2022-04-27T16:47:26","modified_gmt":"2022-04-27T16:47:26","slug":"meet-a-language-superhero-eda-uzuncakara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.languagetesting.com\/blog\/meet-a-language-superhero-eda-uzuncakara\/","title":{"rendered":"<small>Meet a Language Superhero: Eda Uzuncakara<\/small>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1552 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.languagetesting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/9_LTI_Super_Power_Mag_Eda_Uzuncakara_Final-Cover-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"magazine cover Eda Uzuncakara\" width=\"275\" height=\"355\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.languagetesting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/9_LTI_Super_Power_Mag_Eda_Uzuncakara_Final-Cover-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/www.languagetesting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/9_LTI_Super_Power_Mag_Eda_Uzuncakara_Final-Cover-768x994.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.languagetesting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/9_LTI_Super_Power_Mag_Eda_Uzuncakara_Final-Cover-791x1024.jpg 791w, https:\/\/www.languagetesting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/9_LTI_Super_Power_Mag_Eda_Uzuncakara_Final-Cover.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 275px) 100vw, 275px\" \/>Eda Uzuncakara shared her language learning journey with the hope to inspire people to &#8220;find their voice in a new language.&#8221; As a bilingual professional, IT manager, entrepreneur, and writer, Eda found her voice in English as her new language while she continues to keep her roots in her first language, Turkish. In her story, she talks about her language learning journey and shares great ideas for making language learning joyful and personal. She says that\u00a0when you find what excites you about learning a language, you&#8217;ll minimize overthinking and the &#8220;foreign language will cease to be foreign to you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read Eda&#8217;s story:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.languagetesting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Language-Superpower-Magazine-Eda-Uzuncakara.pdf\">Language-Superpower-Magazine-Eda-Uzuncakara<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Watch Eda&#8217;s videos:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DbaC3FUNYI8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Video 1: Introducing the April Language Superhero<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VGMUI0GK2PI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Video 2: Eda&#8217;s ideas for learning a new language<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7t5hV-jHUwA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Video 3: Eda reading an excerpt from her book<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Find out more about Eda&#8217;s collection of short stories,\u00a0<em><strong>Jumping on the Drips<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/edakara.co\/jumping-on-the-drips\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eda Uzuncakara shared her language learning journey with the hope to inspire people to &#8220;find their voice in a new language.&#8221; As a bilingual professional, IT manager, entrepreneur, and writer, Eda found her voice in English as her new language while she continues to keep her roots in her first language, Turkish. In her story, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[162],"tags":[33,249,271,263],"class_list":["post-1551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bilingual-professionals","tag-bilingual-employees","tag-language-is-your-superpower","tag-language-stories","tag-multilingual-professionals"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.languagetesting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.languagetesting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.languagetesting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.languagetesting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.languagetesting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1551"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.languagetesting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1560,"href":"https:\/\/www.languagetesting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551\/revisions\/1560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.languagetesting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.languagetesting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.languagetesting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}