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Sep 2023
14m 48s

Gigachad Polyglot LanguageSimp Gets Seri...

Steve Kaufmann
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🙀 Popular entertainer and polyglot @LanguageSimp joins me to talk about why language learning should be fun and how he got started in languages, TikTok, and YouTube. He also teaches this 77-year-old language grandpa the meaning of the Gen Z term "simp" (it is NOT what I assumed)... 
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