Language learning through travel immersion courses in early retirement

#76: Retiring early to travel the world is a common goal for FIRE aspirants.

But full-time travel can lose appeal quickly. Churches and temples quickly start to look the same. Gardens and palaces quickly look the same.

When you’re responsible for creating all the structure to your day – every day for weeks and months on end – it gets exhausting and can feel purposeless.

But what if you could design early retirement travel around language learning?

By enrolling in language immersion courses at local language schools in countries you travel to, you not only learn how to communicate conversationally with locals. You also get structured and even vibrant exposure to local culture, food, people, and activities because being situated in a school or university environment creates that exposure and structure for you naturally.

This week, I invited Ingrid, a software engineer turned early retiree and successful travel blogger, to share about her early retirement experience pursuing language learning through travel immersion courses. Making language learning the focus of early retirement has brought joy and purpose and structure to her travel experiences.

We discuss:

• How Ingrid came up with and built strong confidence in her FIRE number
• Her asset allocation and withdrawal rate
• Her blog’s revenue contribution (and what helped her blog get traction)
• How Ingrid plans travel around language immersion courses
• How she meets and connects with locals when she travels, plus her advice for solo female travelers
• How she handles health insurance and healthcare costs as an early retiree and when she’s traveling
• How she believes one’s emotional well being and personality change in early retirement
• How she contemplated family and children alongside her early retirement plan, why she decided against having a family, and her thoughts on loneliness, dating, and companionship as an early retiree
• What Ingrid would have done differently if she could do it over again

Check it out here:

https://hackyourwealth.com/language-learning-courses-retirement-travel-immersion

Have you ever studied abroad or taken a language immersion course in another country? What do you think about the notion of pursuing language learning through travel immersion courses in early retirement? Let me know by leaving a comment!

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