Benny Lewis chats with Shannon Kennedy and Caitlin Sacasas about how they use the language app Drops. Drops is a visual, vocabulary language learning game that helps you build your foundation in a new language in 5-minute sessions.

Shannon and Caitlin share why they love Drops, how they use the app, and how Drops teaches vocab without translation.

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• Fluent in 3 Months Black Friday Deals
• Drops

Mentioned in this Episode

• Drops
• Fluent in 3 Months Challenge
• Terrace House
• Shannon’s Italian Refresh
• Holly’s Mosalingua Review
• Shannon’s Instagram
• Language Hacking Interview with Will John
• Gus on the Go

Episode Overview

Some of the topics brought up during the interview are:

• The history of Drops and its multinational background
• Why Drops focuses on helping learners with just one thing
• How Drops pays special attention to teaching a language through games
• Learning a language without translation
• Keeping up your language learning motivation and how Drops’ 2-Day Rule
• How 5 minutes a day adds up to a language learning habit and lots of learned words
• Why learning vocabulary is so important
• The difference between the free version of Drops and Drops Premium
• How Drops decides on what new content gets added
• Learning travel essentials with Drops’ “Travel Talk” feature
• Drops partnership with K-pop star and artist Amber Liu
• Language laddering with Drops

Podcast theme: “A New Beginning” by Shannon Kennedy

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