Creator of the immensely popular YouTube channel LangFocus, Paul Jorgenson, joins Benny Lewis and Shannon Kennedy to talk about building a Youtube channel around a passion for languages, living abroad, and language dabbling.
Paul also shares his secrets for effective time management as he balances family life with his life as a creator and language learner by using non-negotiable routines.
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Patreon Extended Episode
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- How to learn languages with different writing systems without apps
- Tips for overcoming stress and burnout
- Benny and Shannon’s strategies for speaking multiple languages without mixing them up
- Paul’s language survival resources
- Paul’s ideal day of language learning
- Advice for a complete beginner to language learning
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Episode Overview
Some of the topics brought up during the interview are:
Learning languages with few accessible resources
- Strategies for making “difficult” languages easy to learn
- Moving to Japan and living in Japanese
- Dabbling in dozens of languages as a Youtube creator in order to create content
- Building a YouTube channel around an interest in languages
- Crowdsourcing audio samples of different languages
- How Paul’s language learning strategies have changed as tech has improved
- Being a public figure as an introvert
- Time management and the importance of non-negotiable routines as a content creator, language learner, and parent
- Being a role model and inspiration in the language community
Podcast theme: “A New Beginning” by Shannon Kennedy
