Links:

Glossika: https://ai.glossika.com/

The I'm Learning Mandarin blog: imlearningmandarin.com

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In this episode, I talk with Michael Campbell, a true language enthusiast and the founder of language learning app, Glossika.

Michael has dedicated a significant portion of his life to understanding and mastering languages, having lived in Taiwan for most of his life and become proficient in many Chinese languages and dialects along the way.

In this wide ranging interview we discuss how growing up surrounded by polyglots in the intelligence community inspired him to take up languages as well as the driving force behind the creation of Glossika.

Glossika takes a unique approach to language acquisition, focusing on building “muscle memory” through repeated exposure to sound patterns.

This method, coupled with a clever blend of increasing and decreasing spaced repetition intervals, helps learners internalize the natural flow and structure of their target language.

I began by asking Michael how and why he started learning Mandarin.