Hey everyone! This week we have George from the @koreanalwayspodcast as our guest on the Refold Podcast! Originally from the UK, George is currently attending university in Korea - completely in Korean! Tune in to hear them chat about his experiences abroad, his podcast, and language learning.
Hey everyone! This week Clayton is joined by a VERY special guest, Crush! He's a polyglot who created HypLern, an app designed to help people learn languages with reading! Crush is a lifelong language learner passionate about under-served languages. Tune in as he chats with Clayton about his history with languages, the power of reading, what it's like to build your own app, and more! Get HypLern : https://hyplern.com/ Crush's Favorite Book list: Cien años de soledad - Gabriel García Márquez La R...
We're excited to welcome Ryan, also known as Nerdydude, back to the podcast this week! He's a staple of the Refold community and an advanced Japanese learner. In this episode, Clayton and Ryan have an extensive discussion about the validity of language assessments, time tracking, language tips, and the importance of maintaining confidence throughout your language learning journey.
In this week of the Refold Podcast Clayton is joined by Josh, aka TheSensinator, who just graduated with a bachelors degree in BOTH linguistics and Arabic! Tune in to listen to them discuss what it's like getting a degree in linguistics, Josh's history with language, and how he learned Arabic and Swahili.
Hey there! In this episode of the Refold Podcast, Clayton is joined by Israel, also known as @RhapsodyinLingo here on YouTube. Israel is a polyglot who speaks eight languages to varying levels and is currently learning Welsh. During the podcast, Israel shares his experience of learning a minority language, which can be very different from learning a mainstream language. He also chats about how to choose a language based on your interests, goals, and resources. Overall, this episode of the Refold...
It's time for another episode of the Refold Podcast! In this episode, Clayton is joined by Levi, the language guy! As a long-time member of the language community, you might have seen him in the communities of your favorite apps under the handle Xefjord. Xefjord's mission is to help people reach a "survival level" in their target language by hand-creating Anki decks. As of the time of this podcast, he's created decks for a whopping 137 languages...so far. Tune in to listen to Clayton and Levi ch...
Hey there, everyone! We're excited to have Kirnic as our special guest today. He's a Japanese Brazilian and a native Portuguese speaker. Kirnic learned BOTH English and Japanese through immersion. He's been a long-time member of the Refold community on Discord, and thanks to his efforts, the Refold Roadmap is now available in Portuguese. Impressive, right? In this episode, Kirnic shares his experience of growing up as a heritage speaker of Japanese. He also gives us some insights into his journe...
The Refold Podcast is BACK this week with a very special guest, Belle from @ThePhilologicalBell ! They're a PhD student focusing on Old English who learned the language with the Refold method. Tune in to listen to Clayton and Belle chat about ancient languages, what it's like learning a dead language with immersion, and more!
In this episode of the Refold podcast, Clayton is joined by Bree, the social media mage for Refold. Bree has been learning Spanish for the past ~3ish years and is a homeschool mom who added Refold to their at home curriculum. Tune in to hear them chat about being an "older" Refolder, what it's like working at Refold, and her experience raising a young immersion learner! Goldlist video: https://youtu.be/xi7SCDi4oUE Refold English Facebook Community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/refoldla Refold...
Get ready for a very special episode of the Refold Podcast episode as Clayton is joined by special guest - Brett! From administering the Japanese Discord server to hosting community Q&A events, Brett plays an essential role in the Refold community. Join them as they delve into Brett's fascinating journey with Japanese, his experiences with Refold, and his experiences running a martial arts school! 🥋
Join Clayton and Refold language coach Vanessa in this episode of the Refold Podcast as they provide an exclusive behind-the-scenes glimpse into what it's like working at Refold! Tune in to listen to them chat about all things language coaching, Vanessa's time living abroad in Italy, her journey studying Japanese, language learning, and more!
Join Clayton and Isaac in this episode of the Refold Podcast as they explore what it's like to learn Japanese as a heritage speaker. Isaac's experiences reveal that not all heritage speakers have the same set of advantages when it comes to language learning. Listen in as he takes us through his journey of learning Japanese — from the first time he remembers hearing the language, to his decision to learn it, and his experience of switching from traditional learning to immersion.
In this episode of the Refold podcast, Clayton is joined by Novian Cobb, a long time member of the Refold community who has learned both Esperanto and Spanish. He makes update videos on his YouTube channel, @spanishthroughimmersion6694, as well as comments and shares tips and tricks in the Refold Spanish Discord community. Don't miss this episode if you have any interest in conlangs or Esperanto! But also don't miss it in general, it's a good one!
Tune in this week as Clayton meets with Vulcan the study streamer to talk about lots of fascinating topics. Vulcan is a prolific studier and streams a large portion of his PhD and language study over on his YouTube channel: @VulcanStudy . He's got tons of insight for more effective time management, study habits and more! Don't miss this episode!
This week, Clayton is joined by Bill, one of our lovely community members who has been building language learning tools for a long time. He also has a very long history of learning languages and being obsessed with the process! He has spent time learning languages for the US military and has learned all sorts of cool languages. Tune in this week to hear them talk about language learning, AI tools and much more!
This week, Clayton is joined by Ademola, a long-time, hardcore Korean learner and host of the @koreanalwayspodcast6316 . He has been immersion learning for a long time and has obsessively tracked almost every minute of his immersion time. That's how he knows that he managed to fit over 5,000 hours into a single year. That's a whole lot of hours. Tune in for a great conversation about immersion learning, Korean, and some great advice for staying with the process over long periods of time....
During this week's episode, Clayton is joined by me! The person writing this description right now. I honestly don't know what to write about myself here, but I also realized that not that many people read the description of a podcast. So I'm not writing ANYTHING. Anyway, I had a fun chat with Clayton and then edited it immediately after. The funniest part of the whole editing process is seeing his outtakes for the intro and outro 😂.
During this week's episode, we have been graced with the presence of @lamontmcleod ! He's an accomplished Swedish learner, soon to be Spanish speaker, and YouTuber! If you haven't checked out his video yet, DO SO! Make sure to subscribe and watch his latest video, which will be out Sunday, January 29th. https://www.youtube.com/@lamontmcleod He "learned" the entire ES1K deck in 1 day. To find out how that went, you'll need to tune it on Sunday... If you want to ask him questions, we're doing a LI...
The podcast is getting a makeover! Clayton is now the only host and will be leveraging is vast language knowledge to talk with all sorts of interesting people in the language learning and linguistics space. This first episode in the new format features Don Killian and they talk about lots of great topic. You can read more about Don here: https://helsinki.academia.edu/DonKillian Citations: Batterink & Paller, 2019 Batterink & Choi, 2021 Batterink & Zhang, Neuropsychologia, 2022 Alexan...
The podcast crew is chatting with DJ_Ddawg! He's been studying Japanese hardcore since 2020 while also being incredibly busy. Listen as they chat about learning Japanese, specific things you can do to improve your learning process, and other quirks of Japanese! As always, this podcast is made possible by our Patreon, which funds community projects similar to this and allows us to dedicate more time to improving your experience. If you can, please support us so that we can continue to grow: https...
The podcast crew is chatting with Ethan, aka Toppsdown himself! He's the CEO and co-founder of Refold and spends 90% of his waking hours thinking, breathing, and working Refold. He's a long time experimenter and goal setter and has longs of wisdom to share with you about how to make the best of your desires and goals. Tune in to learn something new! As always, this podcast is made possible by our Patreon, which funds community projects similar to this and allows us to dedicate more time to impro...
The podcast crew is chatting with one of the Refold coaching graduates, Ryan aka Nerdydude! Ryan has been learning Japanese for over 18 years and has a ton of amazing insight into the process and what it's like to work with a coaching on your own language ability. Listen in to hear some of his words of wisdom. As always, this podcast is made possible by our Patreon, which funds community projects similar to this and allows us to dedicate more time to improving your experience. If you can, please...
The podcast crew is talking about keeping your language learning feeling fresh, even when it starts to feel dull. Learning a language takes a long time, and expecting it to feel "fun" and "new" every day isn't reasonable. But that doesn't mean it has to become boring or stale, all you need to do is keep a few things in mind... As always, this podcast is made possible by our Patreon, which funds community projects similar to this and allows us to dedicate more time to improving your experience. I...
Apologies for the late release! We changed up the schedule and our editor got super focused on the YouTube version. This week's episode will be 100% back to normal. Thanks for being great listeners! The podcast crew is joined by @KoreanPatch this week! They're talking all about dialects and how they can play a role in language learning. Ian from Korean Patch has been focusing on a specific dialect of Korean! A lot of the conversation is based around Korean, but they also discuss so much more int...
The podcast crew is talking about all the BAD advice in the language learning space. There is so much advice out there, and it's often hard to tell what's useful and what's BAD. In this episode, you'll hear all about common bits of advice that are NOT worth your time or even counterproductive. As always, this podcast is made possible by our Patreon, which funds community projects similar to this and allows us to dedicate more time to improving your experience. If you can, please support us so th...
The podcast crew is talking about why language learning is so great. Learning a language is incredibly rewarding, but WHY? This episode strives to answer the fundamental question of why every person can benefit from speaking foreign languages. As always, this podcast is made possible by our Patreon, which funds community projects similar to this and allows us to dedicate more time to improving your experience. If you can, please support us so that we can continue to grow: https://community.refol...
The podcast crew is talking about going from beginner content to content made for natives! Many immersion learners get really comfortable with beginner content (comprehensible input, graded readers, etc.) but have trouble moving to "content made for natives." This week they are joined by Luke to explore this interesting content! You can find him here: https://www.youtube.com/@luketruman3033 https://twitter.com/luketruman25 As always, this podcast is made possible by our Patreon, which funds comm...
The podcast crew is talking about language learning goals, that is to say, what you hope to achieve as a language learner! Their guest this week is none other than your FAVORITE Korean Immersion learner on YouTube. It's Clowdy Howdy! Listen in to this fun episode about everyone's personal goals and how you can identify good goals to aim for. As always, this podcast is made possible by our Patreon, which funds community projects similar to this and allows us to dedicate more time to improving you...
The podcast crew is talking about a very interesting topic this week! Pitch accent and tone. This language leans toward Japanese, since that's what they have the most experience with, but this topic comes up in many, many languages! They're joined this week by Kezi, the creator of https://kotu.io/, a tone/pitch trainer for Japanese and Mandarin learners. He's a super interesting member of the community, and you won't want to miss this episode. As always, this podcast is made possible by our Patr...
The podcast crew has been asked to share their toxic language take and opinion. Listen in to what they actually think about language learning... As always, this podcast is made possible by our Patreon, which funds community projects similar to this and allows us to dedicate more time to improving your experience. If you can, please support us so that we can continue to grow: https://community.refold.la/patreon-benefits/...
