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Hola! We are Alex and Christina, a couple from the UK. Christina is a languages teacher originally from Catalonia and is teaching Alex Catalan right from the basics up to intermediate and hopefully advanced level!
We are documenting the journey through these podcasts, so if you are also learning Catalan this will help you learn along with us...
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Please get in touch and let us know if you are also learning Catalan! Instagram - @lazylinguistcatalan ... Facebook page - The Lazy Linguist Podcast...
We also have a Patreon where you can access bonus content, detailed lesson notes and transcripts to consolidate your understanding and help you make faster progress with your Catalan. You can find it at www.patreon.com/thelazylinguist
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In future there is potential to make episodes for Spanish and French learners too, so please let us know if you would be interested in that!
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Send us a Text Message.Welcome back to another episode! You have reached a review episode where we put all our knowledge from the last four episodes to the test. There will also be some recap of even prior knowledge and some new things to learn along the way, particularly those kind of 'filler' words and phrases to use in a conversation as we are going to be listening to a dialogue and trying to work out its meaning.Let us know if you were able to follow along! And do you like these style of ...
Send us a Text Message.Ei! Com va? This episode is all about school! You will learn a little about the school system and how to talk about different stages of education as well as how to talk about what your favourite subject is or was! (using the past tense!)Let us know what you thought of the episode or if you have any further insights about school/education in Catalan speaking regions.Please rate and/or review the Podcast and share it with someone you think would like it.Fins la propera!Su...
Send us a Text Message.Hola! This episode teaches you vocabulary for different instruments and how to say what you play or used to play. You will also learn some common emotions along with the verb 'to be' - 'estar' and put all of this together into sentences to practice the language!We hope you enjoy the episode. If you do we would love a rating/review wherever you are listening, share the podcast with a friend who you think might like it and if you really want to be our best friend you can ...
Send us a Text Message.Welcome back! Another episode and this time we are learning about TV & film, including how to say what we watch/like to watch/favourite shows/films and also learning some negative structures to talk about what we don't watch!We hope you enjoy it and find it useful. If you do we hope you will consider rating/reviewing the show, becoming a Patron or buying us a Coffee on 'Buymeacoffee'.Feel free to get in touch on social media and let us know if you are enjoying the p...
Send us a Text Message.Ei! Com anem?This episode is all about sports!You will learn vocabulary for 10 common sports, as well as be able to say how often you play them, give opinions and say which sport is your favourite.We hope you like the episode and find it useful. Feel free to get in touch with us with any questions or to chat to us.You can find our links below:Support the Show.Patreon: The Lazy Linguist Buy us a coffee: Buy me a Coffee Instagram: @lazylinguistcatalan Facebook: The Lazy L...
Send us a Text Message.Time to put your knowledge to the test with another review lesson!This episode is a quiz for Alex and you listening to see how much you have remembered from episodes 36-39 - these involved talking about our daily routines and detailed about where you live.We covered a lot of grammar like reflexive verbs, possessive articles and pronouns and using adjectives correctly.Let us know how you did out of 20! Did you beat Alex's score?Support the Show.Patreon: The Lazy Linguist...
Send us a Text Message.Hola! This episode will teach you how to describe your home - from vocabulary on rooms of the house and descriptions, to learning about possessive adjectives/pronouns (they are the same in Catalan!) and recapping some key verbs.We hope you find it useful.If you want to make faster progress with your Catalan and support our project, you can consider becoming a Patron or buying us a coffee. The links are below. Thank you already to all of our Patrons and to you for l...
Send us a Text Message.Hola! This episode goes into lots more detail in teaching you how to say where you live, learning some different geographical regions, as well as describing them with different adjectives and using a conditional tense to say where you would like to live!On t'agradaria viure? Where would you like to live? Let us know!Thank you as always for listening and to our Patreons for their continued support.Feel free to get in touch with any questions or requests of things for us ...
Send us a Text Message.Ei! Com va?This episode dives further into talking about our daily routines, outside of just the morning. You will learn how to talk in Catalan about what you normally do in the afternoons, evenings and nights. We hope you enjoy and find it useful!If you'd like to access bonus material, lesson notes and language summaries, as well as chat to us over video once a month you can join our Patreon by clicking this link: Patreon.You can chat to us on our socials linked below ...
Send us a Text Message.Hola! This episode will teach you how to talk about your morning routine in Catalan, and we delve a little bit into learning what are reflexive verbs and how are they used.We hope you enjoy. Feel free to get in touch with us on our socials linked below to chat to us or give us any feedback about the podcast.Fins aviat :)Support the Show.Patreon: The Lazy Linguist Buy us a coffee: Buy me a Coffee Instagram: @lazylinguistcatalan Facebook: The Lazy Linguist PodcastChristin...
Send us a Text Message.Hola! Bon any nou! Happy New Year to you!We are so excited for another year of learning Catalan!!This lesson is a review of the last 4 lessons, so we recap months of the year, days of the week, along with other language such as asking to spell your name of recapping some of the holiday traditions that we learned about.If you are a Patron, we would love for you to join us for a videochat on Monday 8th January!Thank you for the support, it has really helped keep this proj...
Send us a Text Message.Ei! This lesson is all about Christmas and the holidays. You will gain lots of cultural insights into Catalan traditions around the holidays while learning lots of useful Christmas/holiday vocabulary in Catalan along the way.We hope you enjoy! Please share it with anyone who you think might enjoy it too.Thank you to our latest Patron, KJ.If you are interested in joining the Patreon you can find us at The Lazy Linguist - Catalan | Learning Catalan the easy way - Beyond t...
Send us a Text Message.Hola! This episode teaches you the alphabet along with some useful pronunciation pointers. We also use the alphabet to practise spelling things, like our name or the name of an artist or song. You will also discover some great Catalan music so that you can enjoy listening and practise your Catalan in a different way!Let us know what your favourite Catalan artists are if you have any!We also talk about more Catalan music in the bonus episode, as well as talking about dif...
Send us a Text Message.Hola!This episode will teach you the days of the week in Catalan and also how to say what hobbies you do on those days! This requires us to have some knowledge of the present tense in Catalan. It is annoyingly probably one of the hardest tenses to master as there are lots of different endings for different types of verbs, so we just stick to learning the 'I' form in this episode, so you can talk about what you do.We will delve deeper into all aspects of the present...
Send us a Text Message.Hola! Com va?We're back with a little bit of a shorter episode this time - we felt like the last one was probably too long! Let us know what kind of length episodes you prefer.This lesson teaches you the months of the year, and how to say important dates, for example your birthday! You will also learn how to wish someone a happy birthday.Remember you can find bonus episodes, summaries of the vocab and detailed lesson notes over on our Patreon (The Lazy Linguist) - linke...
Send us a Text Message.Hola!We have made it to episode 30! This episode brings together our knowledge from the last 4 lessons and earlier episodes too.We have a quiz as always, this time focussing on vocabulary, and then we have a dialogue using lots of language from the last 4 lessons especially, but we also recap a lot of the basics learnt in the first few episodes - let's hope you haven't forgotten them!It's a long one, and we debated splitting it and using some of it in the bonus episode,...
Send us a Text Message.Hola! In today's lesson we will be talking and about jobs! You will learn how to say several common job titles in Catalan as well as some other language and phrases relating to work.Enjoy!Support the Show.Patreon: The Lazy Linguist Buy us a coffee: Buy me a Coffee Instagram: @lazylinguistcatalan Facebook: The Lazy Linguist PodcastChristina offers private lessons - enquire through a DM on socials or through the link: Private lessons
Send us a Text Message.Ei! In this episode of the Lazy Linguist Catalan for Beginners we learn words and phrases associated with the weather.Support the Show.Patreon: The Lazy Linguist Buy us a coffee: Buy me a Coffee Instagram: @lazylinguistcatalan Facebook: The Lazy Linguist PodcastChristina offers private lessons - enquire through a DM on socials or through the link: Private lessons
Send us a Text Message.Hola! Welcome back, this episode teaches you some vocabulary for common animals you may have as pets, as well as recapping some key structures like asking someone if they have pets, asking their name, age and what they are like/look like.We hope you enjoy it. Be sure to give us a 5* rating if you are enjoying the podcast as we put a lot of time into it.If you want to show your support further you can become a Patron and gain access to lots of exclusive features.Fins la ...
Send us a Text Message.Hola! Welcome back. This episode teaches you some clothing vocabulary and we put it into practise by saying what clothes we wear, along with describing the colour of the clothes. We also learn to say what our favourite colour is - can you tell us what yours is in Catalan?Thank you as always for listening and a special thank you to our Patrons for helping to keep this Podcast going. Soon we are hoping to set up a little studio/office in our new place and invest int...
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