The podcast crew is chatting with Ethan, aka Toppsdown himself! He's the CEO and co-founder of Refold and spends 90% of his waking hours thinking, breathing, and working Refold. 

He's a long time experimenter and goal setter and has longs of wisdom to share with you about how to make the best of your desires and goals. Tune in to learn something new!

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The podcast crew is chatting with one of the Refold coaching graduates, Ryan aka Nerdydude!

Ryan has been learning Japanese for over 18 years and has a ton of amazing insight into the process and what it's like to work with a coaching on your own language ability. Listen in to hear some of his words of wisdom.

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The podcast crew is talking about keeping your language learning feeling fresh, even when it starts to feel dull.

Learning a language takes a long time, and expecting it to feel "fun" and "new" every day isn't reasonable. But that doesn't mean it has to become boring or stale, all you need to do is keep a few things in mind...

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Apologies for the late release! We changed up the schedule and our editor got super focused on the YouTube version. This week's episode will be 100% back to normal. Thanks for being great listeners!

The podcast crew is joined by  @KoreanPatch  this week! They're talking all about dialects and how they can play a role in language learning.  

Ian from Korean Patch has been focusing on a specific dialect of Korean! A lot of the conversation is based around Korean, but they also discuss so much more interesting stuff.  

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The podcast crew is talking about all the BAD advice in the language learning space.     

There is so much advice out there, and it's often hard to tell what's useful and what's BAD. In this episode, you'll hear all about common bits of advice that are NOT worth your time or even counterproductive.

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The podcast crew is talking about why language learning is so great.   

Learning a language is incredibly rewarding, but WHY? This episode strives to answer the fundamental question of why every person can benefit from speaking foreign languages.

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The podcast crew is talking about going from beginner content to content made for natives! 

Many immersion learners get really comfortable with beginner content (comprehensible input, graded readers, etc.) but have trouble moving to "content made for natives." This week they are joined by Luke to explore this interesting content! 

You can find him here: https://www.youtube.com/@luketruman3033 https://twitter.com/luketruman25

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The podcast crew is talking about language learning goals, that is to say, what you hope to achieve as a language learner!

Their guest this week is none other than your FAVORITE Korean Immersion learner on YouTube. It's Clowdy Howdy! Listen in to this fun episode about everyone's personal goals and how you can identify good goals to aim for.

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The podcast crew is talking about a very interesting topic this week! Pitch accent and tone. This language leans toward Japanese, since that's what they have the most experience with, but this topic comes up in many, many languages!

They're joined this week by Kezi, the creator of https://kotu.io/, a tone/pitch trainer for Japanese and Mandarin learners. He's a super interesting member of the community, and you won't want to miss this episode.

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The podcast crew has been asked to share their toxic language take and opinion.  

Listen in to what they actually think about language learning...  

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