JR Huan-Wells ｜ 曾悅朗
I’m a licensed English teacher, linguist, and lifelong language learner. I’m endorsed as an English Language Learner specialist and hold a PhD and MSc in Linguistics from the University of Edinburgh, where I researched language policy and revitalisation in Taiwan. My work explores how people and communities navigate multilingualism — how languages are learned, maintained, and sometimes lost.
I’ve spent over a decade teaching and tutoring across three countries — the U.S., the UK, and Taiwan. At Edinburgh, I mentored multilingual postgraduate students in academic writing and tutored courses in sociolinguistics, phonetics, and applied linguistics. I’ve taught in secondary school classrooms, run online conversation and writing sessions, and worked one-on-one with learners at every level from nervous beginners to doctoral candidates polishing their prose.
I speak English and Mandarin natively, and I’m at various levels in Hungarian, Tâi-gí, German, Cantonese, French, Spanish, Japanese, along with a few others. I know what it feels like to struggle with a language — to search for the right word, to feel like you sound strange, to wonder if you’ll ever feel at home in it. That experience shapes how I teach.
I started Let’s Lang Out Together in 2017, and in 2022 it became a dedicated online teaching practice. LLOT grew out of a simple belief: language improves when you use it to do something that matters to you. Not drills, not textbook dialogues — real reading, real writing, real conversation about ideas that make you think. The Summer Club is a space to do exactly that, together.
JR has published in Multiethnica: Journal of the Hugo Valentin Centre, presented at international conferences on language policy, and was a Junior Visiting Scholar at Academia Sinica’s Institute of History and Philology in Taipei.