407 - Two polyglots geek out on teaching methods (with Lukas Van Vyve)

Lukas van Vyve is the founder of Effortless Conversations and the co-founder of Spring Spanish, a new site and YouTube channel that uses the power of "Conversation Based Chunking" to help you get fluent faster. In our conversation, we talk about why cramming doesn't work, the advantages of more natural approaches, and how chunking can go hand-in-hand with a story-based approach to languages.

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