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.

Featured Resources

• italki

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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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Mentioned in this Episode

• Living Languages Hebrew
• italki
• Arabic with Maha
• LangFocus Website
• LangFocus on YouTube
• LangFocus on Twitter
• LangFocus on Instagram
• LangFocus on Facebook
• GeoFocus on YouTube

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