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.

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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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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

#107 Paul Jorgenson on How to Make Difficult Languages Easy

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#107 Paul Jorgenson on How to Make Difficult Languages Easy