It’s a hot summer podcast and the Lingoholics boys are buzzing starting off with recent updates including Ian’s golf course Korean study, Markus interpreting Spanish at work and Cody living the Seoul dream. There’s an inquiry to Cody about the portrayal of North Korea in South Korean media, which leads to a convo about how surreal it is listening to political dictators speaking in their native tongue. The guys discuss the importance of rehearsal role plays in order to anticipate necessary words and phrases in certain situations with Ian offering his Just-in-Time vocabulary theory. Then the guys theorize the parameters for creating a rich language immersion experience whether one is in or out of country. Finally Markus and Ian have vying opinions on long term language development and how much energy it takes to keep improving.