Refold Podcast

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 LIVE Q&A in the Refold Central Discord server also on Sunday. So get subscribed, get in the Discord and GET HYPED.

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 Alexander, Van Hedger & Batterink, Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 2022 Choi et al., 2020 Moreau et al., 2022 https://www.batterinklab.com/publications Alexander, E., Van Hedger, S.C., & Batterink, L.J. (2022). Learning words without trying: Daily second language podcasts support word-form learning in adults. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. Batterink, L. & Paller, K.A. (2019). Statistical learning of speech regularities can occur outside the focus of attention. Cortex, 115, 56-71.

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://community.refold.la/patreon-benefits/