Lingoholics Podcast

Ian y Markus hablan de sus fines de semana divertidos que incluyen viajes cortos a Toronto y Pittsburgh. Después ellos hablan de qué lenguas están enfocándose y una manera bien especifica para aumentar vocabulario y comprensión.

En el sexto episodio del podcast Ian y Markus nombran sus YouTubers preferidos para aprender el español y explorar el mundo hispanohablante a través de sus videos. También hablan del tema de la literatura y cómo selecciona material interesante y un nivel apropriado para leer.

En este episodio Markus y Ian discuten el tema de aprender idiomas de una nueva familia de lenguas no familiarizada como árabe y ruso y después hablan de su deporte favorito de béisbol incluyendo la Copa de Diversión de las ligas menores, el crecimiento de jugadores latinos en el deporte y los términos de béisbol en español.

En este episodio del podcast con contenido comprensible en español Markus y Ian hablaron de sus semanas que incluye Markus tomando una clase de italki cada día con una variedad de profes de español y Ian contando sobre su reciente viaje a Seattle para ver el gran Conejo Malo alias Bad Bunny en concierto.

En el tercer episodio de los Los Lingohólicos Markus y Ian hablan del tema grande y importante: dormir. Ellos hablan de las etapas del sueño y cómo le afecta a la vida diaria. Después van el tema del ejercicio y cómo mantenerse de buena forma en una manera sostenible. ¡Disfruta el episodio!

En el segundo episodio del los Lingohólicos en español hay el regreso de Cody al podcast y también una visita de Mark Bogard "Language Come Up" en el episodio. Los muchachos hablan de la visita que Ian y Markus tuvieron en Ohio con Mark el año pasado, las aventuras de Mark y Markus en Colombia y una gran charla sobre la vida sin consumo de alcohol.

Los Lingohólicos están de regreso con un nuevo formato exclusivamente en español. En este episodio, Markus e Ian se presentan y explican por qué querían crear un podcast en español comprensible. Después hablan de la frase del episodio: ¿Qué hay de nuevo? y expresiones relacionadas. Transcripción del episodio disponible aquí: https://pdf.ac/2c0SFL

The Lingoholics make a summer return with an episode between Cody and Ian, where each discusses their language outlook for the upcoming summer. Cody makes reference to his alternating days of Korean and English that he is doing with his girlfriend. This leads to a convo about initial immersion experiences so both guys recount their experiences and how it's crucial to not have an English escape. This then spawns a discussion on optimal comprehensible input and finally Ian gives some lowdown on his latest dabble languages.

The Spring season is here and the Lingoholics jump back in for a fresh feeling episode. Cody tells of his eventful journey back to Canada and resettling back home. Markus remarks on his maintenance mode for languages and Ian describes his systematic approach to language practice depending on the day of the week. The guys then get into a discussion about finding something you truly enjoy doing in an language so that the improvements are simply a by product of this activity. Finally the convo circles back to the question of language learning in relationships and just how beneficial it is.

After a brief hiatus to start the year the guys reconvene for a podcast during these tumultuous times, which they squarely blame on themselves because the world went wild since the previous podcast. The guys get into the Russian invasion/attack on Ukraine and the idea of protecting Russian speakers who don't live in Russia and how this compares to other languages. After wearing their political hats, Cody gives an au revoir to Korea and looks forward to his upcoming trip to Jeju island before returning home to Canada. The Lingoholics boys are back and its a doozie.

It's an inaugural livestream episode of the Lingoholics podcast on Twitter and YouTube where the guys capture the live energy. This ep starts with the guys summing up their starts to 2022 and then getting into a mix of topics such as the social side of being a polyglot, when to utilize Netflix subtitles and using music a learning tool. Markus discusses his idea of a Language Ironman and the guys talk about Lex Fridman's insights on learning Russian in Clubhouse. Finally the guys reflect on their new episode feature, the Language Shuffle, and jump back into the shuffle speaking in Spanish, French, Portuguese, German and Korean!

The calendar has turned a page to the new year of 2022 and the guys are feeling fresh and motivated in their language ambitions. Ian is centering around German and Korean, Cody is forging on with Korean in South Korea and Markus is going full French à la Quebecois. The guys hammer out the elements to advance in a language with an emphasis on having systems to achieve goals. Starting this episode the guys bring in their beloved mini-power hour session where they converse in Spanish, French, German, Portuguese and a little Korean to cap off the ep.

It's a festive aura around the Lingoholics as they settle in for the last podcast of the year. Marcus recounts a recent housing fraud situation he encountered and highlights the international bent to it. From there the guys riff on various Christmas traditions especially here in Canada and then a few from around the world. Alas the guys reflect on the highs and the lows of their language learning year of 2021 and offer some foresight of what's to come in 2022.

The month of December is here and the guys settle in for another episode shuffling between a variety of topics including visiting to the tallest buildings in different cities, trying new exotic foods while traveling and overviewing the history of the Garifuna and their language. Then there's a discourse on the final episodes of Money Heist and differences of Spanish amongst the iconic characters. Finally Cody and Ian touch on developing their music playlists and how they're adding some multilingual flare. Check out Ian's continually updated Spotify playlist here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4PqsxFOWqFwig0bB4u7Qdj?si=d65953e89f20432a

The guys jump right into the pod catching up with their language updates and early on the topic of sleep arises and how various sleep patterns effect or don't effect language learning functionality. From there the guys talk about their innate natures and how discipline or well-formed habits influence their language learning practice with Cody and Markus having the most noted differences. From there Ian talks about getting daily exposure to the ten big languages in his life and how this creates a forward momentum and internal motivation to keep striving to new heights with a language.

After a quiet October the guys are back in full force to spring into conversation about their beloved subject of languages. Ian and Markus recount the latter's quick trip out to Alberta and how it felt great to riff the whole time in a different language. They make their continual plea for native/advanced language learners to keep sharing the gift and not revert to the dominant language of English. Cody gives an update on his Taekwondo classes and the traction he continues to make with Korean. The episode then centralizes around the idea of doing a language justice and how one's development in a language in a long arduous process with a multitude of cultural discoveries along the way. This then leads to language mastery is essential for instructing in a comprehensible input classroom and the guys get into their long term outlook on languages including Cody's eventual plan to tackle a new language each decade of his life.

It's an episode through the passing of a season and with summer gone the guys are ready to settle into the fall and fire up their languages. Cody talks of his experience joining a Taekwondo class in Seoul and what's it like learning language in a martial arts context. He even recites the Taekwondo oath in Korean, which he is on a mission to memorize. The guys then get into a conversation about the phenomenon of Squid Game and talk about the Day of Reconciliation in Canada and how their buddy Azren has helped facilitate a Blackfoot language course. Markus talks about his plan to go as deep into French and Spanish as he ever has before. Finally Ian talks about the use of images in language learning and teaching and how gifs, memes and pictures can help stimulate the brain for language absorption.

This episode the guys were excited to have polyglot Valeria Tiourina, who is a language YouTuber originally from Russia and has learned numerous languages such as French, Italian, Chinese and currently Japanese. Valeria speaks of her early childhood experiences involving her mother's persistence in using Russian at home and this helped her stay connected with her roots. She then elaborates on her school experiences with French and Italian as an extracurricular language. She surprises the guys by showcasing her Japanese learning methods, which involves using a Japanese video game. Finally to conclude the interview, Ian asks about her experience being on language social media and what the interactions with the polyglot community have been like.

The Lingoholics jive into the latest episode talking about some recent adventures they've had including Ian visiting Toronto and Markus being out in Quebec. Cody catches the guys up on the latest happenings in Korea and his eagerness for his upcoming weeklong holiday. Markus recounts how he was able to hold the Quebecois to French conversations simply by stating he wanted to practice. Cody dives into his recent post on the Learning Korean sub reddit and how he's needed a full new approach to tackle the idiosyncrasies of Korean. He notes how this has been a much different experience compared to his previous languages. Later on the guys get into a conversation of a dopamine detox and how one needs to purposefully distance themselves from phones/social media to enhance the flow states of life. Finally Ian marks a note of appreciation for languages being naturalized into daily life with the example of Toronto Blue Jays walk-up songs.

This ep starts off with Ian waxing poetic about the new school year ahead and the joys of returning to the language classroom as a teacher. The guys reflect on their first days of school and university and the new energy that brings. The get detailed on an ideal vision for a language classroom and the best ways to motivate students. Next the guys converse on language meet up communities and the differences in social circles in big cities compared to smaller places. Finally this leads to the topic of Culture Shock and each Markus, Cody and Ian offer an anecdote on this perennial conundrum.

After a summer pause the Lingoholics boys are back in full force with lots of language related topics on their minds. The guys dig into long distance triathlon training and its parallels with language learning and how mindset is key to long term endeavours. Next the guys give a prelude to their upcoming Afghanistan interpreter episode and opine on Alex Tienda's latest YouTube series to Afghanistan and Lex Fridman's language reflections on his recent Joe Rogan appearance. Finally the guys show some love to the online language community and rejoice in the good vibes from everyone involved there.

It's the big episode 50 of the podcast and the guys are honoured to have on fellow polyglot Alej aka Langaholic. Alej is a seasoned language learner and world traveller currently residing in Belgium who has accrued experience with languages in many places including China, Korea, Japan and now Europe. The conversation ranges from Alej's way of taking on a new language to using Chinese for his job to crazy compound words in German and much more! Alej has countless insights and intuitions on the language learning process and shares this plethora of knowledge on this milestone episode.

This episode the boys start off with their usual language chatter to get the ball rolling then transition into the big topic of international news and the role of foreign languages. The guys break down the different media available in different languages and how a broader perspective can be gained. This leads to analyzing the recent uprisings in Cuba and the song “Patria y Vida”, in which knowing Spanish is an integral part of understanding the full context. The next big topic tackled is the new Governor General appointment in Canada of Mary Simon, who can speak English and Inuktitut but not French (although she's planning to learn it). This spawns a discussion on the status of official bilingualism, indigenous language revitalization and international comparisons to help illuminate the Canadian language situation.

It's a mammoth wide-ranging episode with Aussie language legend Ace Buck who is an engineering and language student and a standout personality in the online polyglot community with ample insights to offer. Ace begins telling of his language journey with French, Spanish and Mandarin and the discussion grows to encapsulate areas such as taking on heavy workloads, coping with lost study time, public speaking in a new language and weaving languages into one's social life to have deeper connections. Ace brings the pod discourse to new heights with a galaxy brain reconceptualization of measuring language proficiency and converges ideas from computational linguistics to quantify vocabulary. He also gets the guys to reflect on their podcast experience and shared love of languages with each other. Check out Ace on Twitter: @officalacebuck YouTube: Ace Buck and his podcast Ace Talks Languages

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.

It's a 4th of July eve podcast with language stud and Michigan son Jack Fordon who Ian met at the Polyglot Gathering in 2017. He tells of discovering Spanish as his first foreign language at age ten and then how he nurtured this language passion onwards to include Chinese, German, Russian, Norwegian, French and many more. Jack enlightens the guys on his current masters in interpreting, his traverses across Europe and the US, differences in Canadian English and his potentially contrarian opinions on language policy in Ukraine. It's an action packed ep with lot of linguistic food for thought.

This episode Ian and Markus kick off the show without their third musketeer Cody (but keep listening and he'll finally appear) and jump straight into a lengthy conversation about growing up bilingual vs. unilingual and how one's early years directly and indirectly impact adult life. This then leads to the topic of bilingualism in Canada and how it is perceived throughout the country involving things such french immersion schooling, politicians' language levels and embracing the two official languages across the country. The guys give a sneak peak for upcoming guests and topics and finally there's an update from Seoul from the M.I.A podcaster.

It's a start of summer pod ep with Cody bringing a new energy being in the South Korean capital Seoul and regaling about the big city life and all it has to offer including his new multilingual AirBnb roommates. The guys go full freestyle offering insights on topics like language podcasts, multilingual celebrities, the omnipresence of English, idiomatic expressions and the summer language meetup potential. The guys are ready to keep their languages strong and soak up the season ahead.

In this episode of the Lingoholics Podcast Markus starts off telling about his recent experience taking the CELPIP exam, which is the required English exam to become a permanent resident in Canada. The guys discuss the different mindsets for exam preparation and how language assessment can be tricky to gage as one is learning. From there the guys talk about dealing with adversity and how one needs a growth mindset to keep taking on the daily toil of language learning. Finally the guys give updates on their language learning as they approach the midway mark of 2021.

As the podcast gets into the second year, the guys bring on their good friend and return guest Azren the Language Nerd who owns and runs his own language school in Calgary, Alberta and also hosts the cherished local language meet ups. Azren sheds light on some of his new language endeavours including his unique approach to learning Japanese and upcoming university classes. Azren also gives an overlay of languages in India, which includes the interplay of Gujarati and Hindi. Finally the guys reminisce about their beloved language meet ups and hope that their return on is on the near horizon!

The boys kick off the second year of the podcast with some quick updates including Cody's plans to return to Canada, Markus buzzing with his language routine and Ian stuck in quarantine taking copious amounts of italki lessons. First the guys discuss the advantages and disadvantages of having a language partner on a platform like HelloTalk compared to having a tutor on italki. Then the convo shifts to a debate and deliberation on the most optimal way to optimize vocabulary acquisition and how ultimately polyglots use a multi-pronged approach to this dilemma.

The Lingoholics Podcast celebrates its one year anniversary since the inception of the pod with a nice reflection on the past year and why the podcast was started in the first place. Markus talks about his new endeavour with the Russian language and how he views it has a long term project. Cody gives his latest update from Korea and his future plans ahead. Finally Ian starts a conversation on what the "click moment" really means and the guys offer perspective on the most optimal way to get to it.

Coming off an exciting Episode #38, the guys come together to talk about their current mental state of language learning in the context of societal lockdown where meeting new people is very difficult. Despite the challenges the guys look forward to the opportunities ahead and staying on track to achieve one's goal. The topic of language vibes arise where the focus shifts from speaking a language perfectly to acting like a native speaker to show the embodiment of the language. The guys also look forward to their one year anniversary pod around the corner.

It’s a huge action packed episode all about Sportsnet and Molson Canadian’s historic Hockey Night in Canada Multilingual Edition, which happened on Saturday, April 24, 2021 and featured hockey in SEVEN additional languages! The first of three guests on this episode is Randip Janda who is part of the long running Hockey Night in Canada Punjabi broadcast, which was the inspiration for this multilingual event. Randip explains the initiative for the night and the history that spawned the Punjabi broadcast and how it has evolved over the years. The next two guests are Jimmy Nguyen and Keith Fong, who were part of the Vietnamese and Cantonese broadcasts respectively. Both tell of their stories becoming hockey fans, the unique language they used in their broadcasts and how hockey is growing in Asia. All three guests share their passion for the game of hockey and offer dazzling insights into their language and culture!

The boys are back with an episode starting off with a huge appreciation of nature and how it is vital to one’s mental and physical health and is also a splendid setting for language learning. The guys give updates on their language learning journeys and give some advice on what to look for when choosing an italki tutor. From there, the guys jump into the topic of language learning historically and into the future, which includes downloading languages into one’s brain, using virtual reality to recreate an immersive environment and having AI to be the ultimate teacher in any subject. Finally, the guys talk about language and population trends and speculate on what the world will be speaking in the coming decades and centuries.

This pod Sunday the guys speak about trying their best at the 40 hour 7 day language challenge (#40h7dLC) with Ian knocking the rust off of his Ukrainian, Cody forging on with his Korean and Markus holding steady with Portuguese and Catalan. Markus pontificates on the allure of Russian and how taking on a new language family is strenuous at first but then pays off for future related languages. Cody dissects his current struggles with Korean and how it has differed greatly from his experiences with Chinese and German. Finally the guys talk about the upcoming Multilingual Hockey Night in Canada on April 17th, the Polyglot Gathering going online again and tease some ideas for future episodes.

It's a pod episode on the eve of the 40 hour 7 day Language Challenge (#40h7dLC)featuring Jonathan Seabolt from the Seabolt Speaks YouTube channel. The guys jump right into the nitty gritty of the challenge and how it's designed to push one's language learning practice to the next level. From there the guys talk about Seabolt's "serial dabbler" tendencies into languages such as Esperanto and Navajo but also also how he's dedicated serious time to Japanese in the last year. The guys reflect on the attitudes of English speakers abroad and how one should connect with locals. Finally there's a discussion on the deep knowledge held within languages and Seabolt enlightens the guys on Canadian wrestling history.

It's the episode where Cody is finally freed from his mandatory two week quarantine and is hitting the ground running with his new English teaching job in South Korea. Cody talks about his first experiences and challenges working and speaking Korean with locals. With the current state of covid the guys conjure up creative solutions to still be social while living in a new country. Afterwards, the guys talk about the new Moses McCormick tribute video, which features over 50 languages and how polyglots have the ability to learn less popular languages and help expose them to the world.

It's Part Two of Cody still being in quarantine in South Korea as he awaits to start his new teaching job. He informs the guys on how he's been coping with the isolation, which has involved video games and Korean study. From there, the guys get into the difference between a productive state of flow and being addicted to something. Ian shares his new language spots idea to enforce new habits and also how he's learning about cryptocurrencies via French. Finally the guys talk about their morning language routines and getting into a productive mindset.

The Lingoholics are back with Cody freshly arrived in South Korea after a lengthy journey from Vancouver. Cody breaks down his travel experiences including the surprises and process of travelling during Covid. He’s currently in a two week quarantine before he gets to venture out and start his new job so he lays out his routine to stay sane and level up in Korean. Meanwhile back in Canada, Ian and Markus have jumped into practicing Portuguese, which leads to a conversation about using anchor languages to hack other languages in the same family. Finally the guys look at when is the most optimal time to start grammar study and how much one should do of it compared to consuming native language content.

It’s an emotional episode where the guys pay their respects to the late great polyglot master Moses McCormick (Laoshu505000) who’s sudden death has hit the language world hard. Cody is in Vancouver preparing his final tasks before embarking to South Korea while Markus just completed a 4 day road trip from Alberta to Ontario listening to copious amounts of Portuguese Pimsleur. In their talk the guys reflect on the influence and inspiration of Moses and how he bridged cultured divides speaking to innumerable people through the power and gift of language. Moses’ legacy is to show people to live your absolute best life and seize the day every day. R.I.P. Moses. #Laoshu505000Forever

It’s a laugh filled 30th episode as the boys bring on Ian’s buddy and self-proclaimed “later to life polyglot” Joshuah Pursley, who has lots to tell of his language journey as an adult, which started at age 33. Josh recounts growing up in Arizona and the historic presence of latinos there as well as immigrant communities in other states. Josh dives deep into his affection for Indonesian, the vast complexity of the African languages including his own Swahili learning and his skepticism to learning created languages like Esperanto and Klingon. Josh talks of being a parent teaching languages, his experience at the Polyglot Conference and gives his impressions on Japan and South Korea.

It’s a mega music mania podcast episode where the guys break down the relationship between music and languages and how it's part of the learning process. The guys speak of their musical influences growing up and move to an analysis of the growing phenomenon of K-pop and its global reach. Afterwards, the guys focus on their favourite artists and groups in Spanish, French, and German. Ian delves into his deep admiration for the Ukrainian rock bank Okean Elzy and how he saw them three times in concert, which greatly inspired his Ukrainian learning. Finally the guys speculate on learning future languages and how that will open the doors to more musical genres.

It's a special Valentine's Day ep featuring rising YouTuber Mark Bogard aka Language Come Up who joins the pod to talk about many facets of the language learning life. Mark tells of his inspiration to learn Spanish and move to Mexico City and his current quest learning Russian. The guys discuss the focus-dabble spectrum, cultural incentives to get into languages, childhood language experience and shared polyglot heroes. Mark also highlights his 40 hour 7 day language challenge (#40h7dlc) and how participating in it forces your brain to function in a new language!

Happy Super Bowl Sunday everyone! On this pod the boys are fired up for the big game and start off talking about how fun Spanish sports announcers are. From there, the guys meander into world alphabets and language geography. The guys give updates on the week post-boot camp including Markus' mass listening approach, Cody's prep for Korean and Ian's start to teaching a high school new semester. The pod caps off on how competitiveness can help inspire kids to learn languages in a fun way.

It’s the final day of the Lingoholics Language Boot Camp and the boys reflect on their experience cycling through Spanish, French, German and a slough of other dabble languages and how they feel they’ve propelled themselves linguistically into 2021. Cody gives an update on his upcoming Korea teaching adventure, Markus revels in his confidence to truly enhance his German and Ian highlights his plan to only speak Spanish to his brand new high school students and individually improving his German and Korean through the method of sentence mining. To cap off the episode and Boot Camp the boys do a FULL ON conversation in Spanish, French, German and Esperanto.

For the 25th episode the boys are hunkered down in Lingoholics household doing their Language Boot Camp and also celebrating Cody’s 28th birthday. The guys have lots of thoughts and ideas on the intensive immersive environment they’ve created to enhance their Spanish, French and German while dabbling in a few extra languages. The guys talk about the best way to level up a language whether one is a beginner or intermediate and how language input should not only be comprehensible but optimal input. There’s reflections on how one’s life circumstances affects learning and the need to have positive vibes around. Lastly, Cody talks about giving his sister advice on picking a language to learn and how having interest is key.

The Lingoholics boys are reunited in person and they kick off the fun and intense language boot camp happening at Ian's house where the guys are working on multiple languages living together. The guys start with a summary on their Esperanto experiment and how it offers the sensation of fluency much earlier than other languages. The guys then talk about their expectations and goals for the boot camp and how to take advantage of an immersive environment. Cody and Ian touch on their teaching styles and the guys linguistically gear up for the weeks ahead.

It's a new year and a new episode of the Lingoholics podcast. The guys swing into 2021 with a wide conversation involving which languages could be easier to learn based on ones you already know. Ian makes the case for learning Esperanto for the upcoming Lingoholics Boot Camp and Cody and Markus are fully onboard. The guys take an introspective look on how to avoid devices and technology being costly distractions. Cody offers sound advice on subtitle usage and Markus concludes with a farewell to Europe as he awaits his return to Canada.

It's a send off episode of 2020 and a look ahead to 2021. The guys reflect on the highs and lows of this past year and talk about their main accomplishments in language learning. Afterwards, Cody, Ian and Markus offer their individual language learning goals for the upcoming year and how they plan to accomplish them. There's some hype for the upcoming Lingoholics bootcamp and well wishes to everyone in the New Year!

It's a holiday podcast featuring Ian's Langfest friend Julian, who has lived and taught in South Korea and also travelled multiple times to Japan. Julian fills the guys in on the educational culture of Korea and contrasts it with Japan highlighting the role of English in each society. He offers a slough of resource recommendations and how to utilize them effectively. The guys touch on levels of dedication, learning lifestyle hacks and career potential for aspiring polyglots. Lastly there's a renewed spark for Cody and Ian's Korean War 2.0 which may potentially feature polyglot star Richard Simcott.