Send us a text Hola! In this episode, we’re learning how to talk about what we’re reading, listening to, and watching right now in Catalan. We’ll look at the present continuous tense with verbs like llegir, mirar, and escoltar, and we’ll learn new vocabulary for books, series, podcasts, and films. We hope you enjoy it! If you're reading this before the 15th September, there is still time to sign up for the group classes starting on the 15th! Find more info here: https://www.thelazylinguist.co...
Send us a text Bones! Com anem? This episode dives into yet another tense in Catalan - the present continuous! This tense is used quite a lot in daily conversations mainly to talk about what you or someone is doing right at that moment. Tune in to learn more about when we use it, how's it formed and practise hearing it in different contexts! *There are only a few spots left in my beginner group programmes starting this September. Find out more on our website* https://www.thelazylingui...
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Send us a text Support the show Group Lessons starting September 2025: Group Programmes Beginners Course: Catalan for Beginners Course Patreon: The Lazy Linguist Buy us a coffee: Buy me a Coffee Instagram: @lazylinguistcatalan Facebook: The Lazy Linguist Podcast Christina offers private lessons - enquire through a DM on socials or through the link: Private lessons
Send us a text Hola! Com anem? In this episode, we crack up while exploring Catalan memes, reels, and viral videos! Learn fun vocabulary and natural expressions to talk about digital humour, share jokes, and describe your favourite meme - all while improving your Catalan. If you found it useful, please be sure to give us a 5* rating/review - it really helps us spread the message and help others learn Catalan too 😊 Support the show Group Lessons starting September 2025: Group Programmes Beginn...
Send us a text In this episode, we talk about how people communicate online today and go over essential Catalan vocabulary for social media platforms like Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook. You’ll learn useful expressions, hear a short dialogue, and by the end, you’ll be able to talk about your social media habits in Catalan. Com utilitzes les xarxes socials? Feel free to leave us a comment in Catalan! Support the show Group Lessons starting September 2025: Group Programmes Beginners Cour...
Send us a text Bentornats a un altre episodi! This episode is all about how we use technology in Catalan. It's an introduction to talking about using different devices like phones, computers, laptops, tablets and more... along with lots of other language to describe what you do on these devices/the online word. Please rate if you enjoyed the episode and don't forget to follow so that you get notified about future episodes! Feel free to comment your own sentences about how you use your d...
Send us a text Hola! We're here with episode 20 and it's another review episode of the last 4 lessons - you'll hear a lot of sentences in the Imperfect tense, and specifically relating to things you used to do in the past, old routines at school, what you carried in your bag/pencil case and much more. There's a dialogue at the end which we go through in more detail in the bonus episode. If you consider becoming a Patron it will not only help you make faster progress with your Catalan, but hel...
Send us a text In this episode, we dive deeper into the imperfect tense by talking about what our school routines used to be like. You'll review common daily routine verbs, learn time expressions, and build longer sentences in context. Through storytelling, guided practice, and a short dialogue, you’ll get comfortable using the imperfect tense to describe past habits. Great for intermediate learners looking to make their Catalan more natural and fluid! The current group classes are going so...
Send us a text In this episode, we’re talking about school and office items and stationary in Catalan! Things like pens, notebooks, backpacks and more. You’ll also get some grammar practice with hi ha, prepositions, and the imperfect tense to describe how things used to be. Support the show Group Lessons starting September 2025: Group Programmes Beginners Course: Catalan for Beginners Course Patreon: The Lazy Linguist Buy us a coffee: Buy me a Coffee Instagram: @lazylinguistcatalan Faceboo...
Send us a text In this episode we dive deeper into the imperfect tense! Make sure you listen to the last episode where we talked about the imperfect and the singular forms of common verbs before you listen to this one. In this one we look at the plural conjugations as well as some of the strange irregularities that happen to the root of a lot of verbs in this tense in Catalan! We hope it wasn't too confusing for you! The lesson notes/language summaries on Patreon might help you consolidate ev...
Send us a text Join us for this episode as we dive a little deeper into the Imperfect Tense in Catalan. We use this tense to talk about recurring actions in the past or to describe things in the past. Tune in to find out more and specifically how to talk about what our school days were like! Let us know how you found the episode/how you are finding the Pod in general or anything else. We love getting to know our listeners! Support the show Group Lessons starting September 2025: Group Programm...
Send us a text Join Alex on a translation challenge! We review the last 4 lessons on the perfect tense, superlatives and talking about mental health/hobbies. There are 10 sentences to translate from Catalan into English, and 10 from English into Catalan - they weren't easy so well done if you got some! Let us know your score! Support the show Group Lessons starting September 2025: Group Programmes Beginners Course: Catalan for Beginners Course Patreon: The Lazy Linguist Buy us a coffee...
Send us a text Hola! This episode is all about using the superlative in Catalan. You'll learn how to say the most or the least of things, for example the most interesting, the least funny, the most fun etc... also the words for tallest/shorterst/fastest/slowest etc, which use the same structure. The words for the best and the worst are a bit different though so we practice them as well! If you enjoy the Podcast and haven't already, we'd really appreciate a quick rating or review - and make su...
Send us a text Hola! Com va? This is part 2 on the perfect tense! Last lesson we learned the basic use and formation of the singular pronouns, this episode will focus on a lot of the irregularities with the past participles as well as teach you how to use the rest of the pronouns so that you can talk about what a variety of people have done in the past! We hope you enjoyed it and found it useful. If you do enjoy the Pod please don't forget to give a little rating or review as it really means ...
Send us a text Welcome back! Thanks for stopping by. This episode goes into detail on how and when we use the perfect tense - another common past tense! We learned the perifràstic tense in season 1, but this season we want to be able to use multiple tenses and use them in the right way, as this is often something that learners find tricky! Hope you find it useful! Please rate, follow and share if you do :) Support the show Group Lessons starting September 2025: Group Programmes Begi...
Send us a text Benvinguts a un altre episodi! Welcome to another episode! We've previously talked about health, but focussed more on physical health and how to take care of your body, but taking care of your mind is just as important! This episode dives into a few ways of expressing emotions or situations like feeling pressure, stress, overwhelm etc, as well as some of the things you can do to look after your mental health. It's great for when you want to have those deeper chats in Catalan an...
Send us a text Ei! Com va? This is a review episode where Alex and you are put to the test! Do you remember the language from the last four episodes on different food types and healthy/unhealthy lifestyles? Try the quiz and see how you get on! We then practise a lot of this language even more in the context of a conversation, by hearing and dissecting a dialogue. Let us know how you did and how you found the episode! If you are on Spotify you can leave a comment or get in touch on our soci...
Send us a text Ei! Com va? Bon any! (If you are listening just before or around the new year!) This episode is a part 2 to the last episode where we talked about healthy and unhealthy habits. We break down a dialogue which is one person giving advice to someone else about their unhealthy habits. There is some language that practises what was learned in the previous episode and some new language which we see in a natural context of a dialogue. Remember that the detailed lesson notes provide ...
Send us a text Ei! Com va tot? We are back with an episode talking all about health! How do you say you have healthy habits in Catalan? Or unhealthy habits? We'll also cover some more complex opinions and hear a dialogue from Christina and a new voice! We hope you enjoy the episode! Please subscribe and rate/review it if you haven't already. Help us spread the message and knowledge of Catalan! Support the show Group Lessons starting September 2025: Group Programmes Beginners Course: Catal...