Simplified Speech #243 – How we learn our second languages
Culips Everyday English Podcast
Culips English Podcast
4.8 • 979 Ratings
🗓️ 5 March 2026
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Simplified Speech, Andrew and Indiana share their personal experiences as language learners. Even though they are English teachers, they also study second languages themselves. They talk about their history with languages like Japanese, German, and Korean, and discuss their favorite study methods and give advice on how to improve your skills.
They chat about some of the different ways they remember new vocabulary and why spending time with the language every day is so important. Finally, they also share some funny and unusual tips for practicing speaking without feeling embarrassed. Listen to the episode to find out which daily habits might work best for you.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to simplified speech, the Culep series, which features clear, natural, and easy to understand conversations between native speakers. |
| 0:10.7 | And joining me today to talk about language learning is my co-host, Indiana. |
| 0:17.5 | Hey there, Indiana. How is it going? |
| 0:20.8 | I am good, Andrew. It's quite late my time here. I've had a long day, but I'm excited to talk about one of my favorite topics, language learning, with you, somebody I know also really appreciates this topic. So I can't wait to get started. |
| 0:39.4 | Yeah, it's going to be a fun one. |
| 0:45.4 | This is one of my favorite topics to talk about. And for listeners out there who don't know, |
| 0:51.5 | of course, we are English teachers, Indiana, but we are also passionate language learners. So just like you guys, you guys are learning English. Indiana and I are learning |
| 0:55.5 | our own different second languages. And we're going to talk about what we do to study and to |
| 1:01.1 | improve our language skills in this episode. And maybe you guys can learn something, maybe a new way |
| 1:08.7 | to approach learning English. or maybe you can share your |
| 1:11.8 | English learning tips with Indiana and with me on our Discord community as well, and we can |
| 1:16.7 | sort of exchange knowledge with each other, and yeah, hopefully at the end of the day, we can |
| 1:22.3 | all take home something that we can apply to our own language learning situations so that we can improve our |
| 1:28.9 | skills faster and better than ever. Now, Indiana, speaking of improving your skills faster and |
| 1:35.3 | better than ever, guys, we have a helpful study guide and an interactive transcript available |
| 1:41.1 | for this episode. In the study guide, you will find detailed vocabulary |
| 1:45.8 | explanations and examples. There's example conversations that you can study with. There are |
| 1:51.7 | speaking practice questions, writing practice questions, and even a quiz. And if you would like |
| 1:58.2 | to get that interactive transcript and study guide, you have to become a QLyp's member. |
| 2:03.3 | But don't worry, you can sign up and become a QLips member for an affordable price on our website, which is QLips.com, or you can just follow the link in the description for this episode. |
| 2:13.4 | And when you are a QLips member, you'll also get access to lots of other benefits and bonuses that we have designed to help you improve your English fluency. |
| 2:22.5 | Maybe the best one is our weekly speaking classes. |
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