Language Learner's Lounge

This week, we have veered away from the world of words in foreign languages and have switched over to focus on numbers in other languages, as well as recognizing the wonderful opportunity that we learned to have become one of the Top 5 Most Searched Podcasts for Language Learning Tips!!! Thank you all so much for your support and we are so glad that you have come to join us in yet another conversa...

We're diving deeper into another side of a rant regarding language learning and that is where reading and speaking practice is concerned. Kyler and Joshua dive into the world of what it was like for them learning foreign languages through reading and some of the difficulties behind learning to speak through reading, with a surprise special guest, Joseph! Come join for a great discussion and for an...

Welcome to the Part 2 of our discussion of the hardest letters to grasp in different languages, where Kyler and Joshua discuss the world of the letter X in different languages. Is the same? Is it easier or worse to learn than the letter R? We don't know! Join Kyler and Joshua as they discuss this and come to a personal conclusion about which letter is harder to learn! Have a suggestion for a discu...

What once was thought to become their most argumentative episode ended up becoming their most insightful episode! Instead of focusing on an alphabet as a whole, Kyler and Joshua decide to take a look at the phonetic sounds for the letter "R" across all different kinds of languages around the globe and how some sounds are different and how some sounds are the same across those languages! In this ep...

A very impressive milestone has been reached! Kyler and Joshua are celebrating their 10th episode by sharing more about the languages they want to learn or some of the languages they have learned and have thought about diving back into! Join them in this discussion as they talk more about the languages they want to learn and share more about the world of language learning as it all comes together...

For the first time ever, we have our very first special guest joining us for this discussion as Kyler and Joshua ignite tangents about the things that we tend to say in foreign languages out of habit, be it when something goes wrong, when we hurt ourselves, or when someone calls our name while we are lost in thought. Join Kyler, Joshua, and special guest Ariel Settle for a special discussion about...

More tangents continue, as this time, we dive into determining the past, present, and future tense of different languages and eventually touch up on the polite and informal versions of verbs! We also get to take a deeper dive into what it's like to talk about things in a perfect or imperfect way! Join Kyler and Joshua as they take this dive into the past, the present, and the future tense of verbs...

Get ready for a long line of tangents that might help you with your own language learning process, as Kyler and Joshua start discussing verb conjugations in different languages, including common languages like Spanish and French, and then some of the lesser known languages like Tahitian and Arabic. If you thought conjugating English was hard sometimes, listen to this episode and listen to the ways...

This time, host Joshua Flood introduces the discussion topic, with some lacking visuals, on the world of different writing scripts in different languages, including Korean, Japanese, Greek, and Arabic! This is the first time that we will be diving into a conversation about the world of writing in foreign languages, so prepare to take some notes! You're going to need to write down what you hear in...

The title to this episode takes on a double meaning as Kyler and Joshua discuss the ways that learning the speaking accents of a language becomes important to a language learner's journey while also experience some technical issues while Kyler is travelling the country! Join for a great discussions about mastering a speaking accent in conjunction with a losing battle with the Internet and video ca...

They've spent a lot of time discussing the world of foreign languages, but as Josh and Kyler have spent a couple to a few years teaching English to Haitians and Latinos in the Indianapolis area, they've decided to cover bits and pieces of the world in learning English and reflect on the things they've had to teach regarding the English language that they themselves never had to think about at the...

In this discussion, we revisit a point that we had briefly covered in the previous episode and we discuss with some stories about different pronouns in different languages! We get the chance to bounce around to a number of different languages, including Portuguese, Haitian Creole, Chinese, and even Russian! Have a suggestion for a discussion? Have a question you want us to answer? What about just...

This discussion revolves around a question that was given to Kyler regarding how to recognize when a noun is masculine or feminine in a language, so Kyler and Joshua take this episode to study more and discuss this topic. Join in as we discuss how to recognize these differences, with a strong focus of Spanish! Have a suggestion for a discussion? Have a question you want us to answer? What about ju...

Welcome to the Language Learner's Lounge! This first episode includes an introduction of the hosts, Kyler Lopez and Joshua Flood, a background on the podcast, and some extra discussions about the general language learning world before more detailed discussions take place in future episodes! Have a suggestion for a discussion? Have a question you want us to answer? What about just a random comment...

Welcome to the Language Learner's Lounge Podcast! This trailer goes over the general basics of the podcast! Two friends, return missionaries of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and avid linguists, discuss with one another their language learning journeys and the obstacles they faced in the world of reading, understanding, writing, and speaking a new language. They will cover all dif...