Refold Podcast

This Friday, Clayton is interviewing Mark Kaufmann, the man behind LINGQ! He's a former pro hockey player, son of the famous polyglot Steve Kaufmann, and LingQ CEO. In this episode, they chat about the fascinating history of how LingQ came to be, the thought process behind designing the app, and an inside look into the potential future of LingQ. Get LingQ: https://refold.link/LingQ

Hey everyone! This week we have George from the @koreanalwayspodcast as our guest on the Refold Podcast! George, originally from the UK, is currently attending university in Korea - completely in Korean! Tune in to hear them chat about his experiences abroad, his podcast, and language learning.

This week on the Refold Podcast, Clayton is joined by Tom, a Dutch linguist AND physicist! Tom has a passion for small regional languages, ChatGPT, and languages in general. Tune in to listen to them chat about these topics and more!

Today on the podcast Clayton is interviewing Greduan, a native Spanish speaker who learned to speak English and Japanese with immersion at a young age. He's also an OG of the Refold community, who was around from the very beginning. Tune in to listen to them chat about his experiences living abroad, language acquisition, and more.

This week on the Refold Podcast we're introducing you to one of our favorite Refold community members, Skypon! He's an Italian Refold Community admin, polyglot, and heritage speaker of both Spanish and Icelandic! We really enjoyed chatting with Skypon this week and we hope you find the conversation as enlightening as we did!

Hey everyone! This week we have George from the  @koreanalwayspodcast  as our guest on the Refold Podcast! Originally from the UK, George is currently attending university in Korea - completely in Korean! Tune in to hear them chat about his experiences abroad, his podcast, and language learning.

Hey everyone! This week Clayton is joined by a VERY special guest, Crush! He's a polyglot who created HypLern, an app designed to help people learn languages with reading! Crush is a lifelong language learner passionate about under-served languages. Tune in as he chats with Clayton about his history with languages, the power of reading, what it's like to build your own app, and more! Get H...

We're excited to welcome Ryan, also known as Nerdydude, back to the podcast this week! He's a staple of the Refold community and an advanced Japanese learner. In this episode, Clayton and Ryan have an extensive discussion about the validity of language assessments, time tracking, language tips, and the importance of maintaining confidence throughout your language learning journey.

In this week of the Refold Podcast Clayton is joined by Josh, aka TheSensinator, who just graduated with a bachelors degree in BOTH linguistics and Arabic! Tune in to listen to them discuss what it's like getting a degree in linguistics, Josh's history with language, and how he learned Arabic and Swahili.

Hey there! In this episode of the Refold Podcast, Clayton is joined by Israel, also known as  @RhapsodyinLingo  here on YouTube. Israel is a polyglot who speaks eight languages to varying levels and is currently learning Welsh. During the podcast, Israel shares his experience of learning a minority language, which can be very different from learning a mainstream language. He also chats about how t...

It's time for another episode of the Refold Podcast! In this episode, Clayton is joined by Levi, the language guy! As a long-time member of the language community, you might have seen him in the communities of your favorite apps under the handle Xefjord. Xefjord's mission is to help people reach a "survival level" in their target language by hand-creating Anki decks. As of the ti...

Hey there, everyone! We're excited to have Kirnic as our special guest today. He's a Japanese Brazilian and a native Portuguese speaker. Kirnic learned BOTH English and Japanese through immersion. He's been a long-time member of the Refold community on Discord, and thanks to his efforts, the Refold Roadmap is now available in Portuguese. Impressive, right? In this episode, Kirnic share...

The Refold Podcast is BACK this week with a very special guest, Belle from  @ThePhilologicalBell  ! They're a PhD student focusing on Old English who learned the language with the Refold method. Tune in to listen to Clayton and Belle chat about ancient languages, what it's like learning a dead language with immersion, and more!

In this episode of the Refold podcast, Clayton is joined by Bree, the social media mage for Refold. Bree has been learning Spanish for the past ~3ish years and is a homeschool mom who added Refold to their at home curriculum. Tune in to hear them chat about being an "older" Refolder, what it's like working at Refold, and her experience raising a young immersion learner! Goldlist vide...

Get ready for a very special episode of the Refold Podcast episode as Clayton is joined by special guest - Brett! From administering the Japanese Discord server to hosting community Q&A events, Brett plays an essential role in the Refold community. Join them as they delve into Brett's fascinating journey with Japanese, his experiences with Refold, and his experiences running a martial arts...

Join Clayton and Refold language coach Vanessa in this episode of the Refold Podcast as they provide an exclusive behind-the-scenes glimpse into what it's like working at Refold!   Tune in to listen to them chat about all things language coaching, Vanessa's time living abroad in Italy, her journey studying Japanese, language learning, and more!

Join Clayton and Isaac in this episode of the Refold Podcast as they explore what it's like to learn Japanese as a heritage speaker. Isaac's experiences reveal that not all heritage speakers have the same set of advantages when it comes to language learning.   Listen in as he takes us through his journey of learning Japanese — from the first time he remembers hearing the language, to his deci...

In this episode of the Refold podcast, Clayton is joined by Novian Cobb, a long time member of the Refold community who has learned both Esperanto and Spanish. He makes update videos on his YouTube channel,  @spanishthroughimmersion6694, as well as comments and shares tips and tricks in the Refold Spanish Discord community. Don't miss this episode if you have any interest in conlangs or Esper...

Tune in this week as Clayton meets with Vulcan the study streamer to talk about lots of fascinating topics.   Vulcan is a prolific studier and streams a large portion of his PhD and language study over on his YouTube channel:  @VulcanStudy .   He's got tons of insight for more effective time management, study habits and more! Don't miss this episode!

This week, Clayton is joined by Bill, one of our lovely community members who has been building language learning tools for a long time.   He also has a very long history of learning languages and being obsessed with the process! He has spent time learning languages for the US military and has learned all sorts of cool languages.   Tune in this week to hear them talk about language learn...

This week, Clayton is joined by Ademola, a long-time, hardcore Korean learner and host of the  @koreanalwayspodcast6316  .   He has been immersion learning for a long time and has obsessively tracked almost every minute of his immersion time. That's how he knows that he managed to fit over 5,000 hours into a single year. That's a whole lot of hours.   Tune in for a great conver...

During this week's episode, Clayton is joined by me! The person writing this description right now.   I honestly don't know what to write about myself here, but I also realized that not that many people read the description of a podcast. So I'm not writing ANYTHING.   Anyway, I had a fun chat with Clayton and then edited it immediately after. The funniest part of the whole editing proces...

During this week's episode, we have been graced with the presence of  @lamontmcleod  !   He's an accomplished Swedish learner, soon to be Spanish speaker, and YouTuber! If you haven't checked out his video yet, DO SO! Make sure to subscribe and watch his latest video, which will be out Sunday, January 29th. https://www.youtube.com/@lamontmcleod  He "learned" the entire ES1K dec...

The podcast is getting a makeover!   Clayton is now the only host and will be leveraging is vast language knowledge to talk with all sorts of interesting people in the language learning and linguistics space.  This first episode in the new format features Don Killian and they talk about lots of great topic.  You can read more about Don here: https://helsinki.academia.edu/DonKillian&...

The podcast crew is chatting with DJ_Ddawg! He's been studying Japanese hardcore since 2020 while also being incredibly busy.    Listen as they chat about learning Japanese, specific things you can do to improve your learning process, and other quirks of Japanese!   As always, this podcast is made possible by our Patreon, which funds community projects similar to this and allows us...