Learn Catalan - The Lazy Linguist Podcast
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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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!
Episodes
71 episodes
S2: E20 - QUIZ. Review of l'Imperfet, Old Routines, Items in my Bag - Intermediate Catalan
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 car...
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Season 2
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Episode 20
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35:31
S2: E19 - Com era la teva rutina? Describing past routines using the Imperfect - Intermediate Catalan
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 cont...
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Season 2
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Episode 19
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39:34
S2: E18 - What’s in the Bag?! School & Office Vocab + Prepositions - Intermediate Catalan
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 describ...
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Season 2
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Episode 18
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38:31
S2. E17 - L'Imperfet P2 - Plurals & Irregulars! - Intermediate Catalan
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 p...
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Season 2
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Episode 17
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40:18
S2: E16 - The Imperfect Tense - Com era la teva escola? - Intermediate Catalan
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 tal...
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Season 2
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Episode 16
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37:20
S2: E15 - QUIZ! - Review of Eps 11-14 - Intermediate Catalan
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 ...
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Season 2
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Episode 15
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47:17
S2. E14 - The Superlative - The Best & Worst hobbies! - Intermediate Catalan
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...
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Season 2
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Episode 14
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34:52
S2. E13. El Perfet - Irregular Verbs & More Practice - Intermediate Catalan
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...
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Season 2
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Episode 13
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32:19
S2. E12. Another past tense! El perfet - The Perfect Tense - Intermediate Catalan
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 ten...
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Season 2
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Episode 12
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36:46
S2. E11. Mental Health - La Salut Mental - Intermediate Catalan
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...
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Season 2
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Episode 11
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39:30
S2. E10 - Review of 6-9 (Quiz & Dialogue on Food & Healthy Habits) - Intermediate Catalan
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!W...
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Season 2
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Episode 10
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36:03
S2. E9. Giving Advice - Healthy & Unhealthy Habits - Intermediate Catalan
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 advic...
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Season 2
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Episode 9
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31:54
S2. E8. Health! La Salut! Healthy and Unhealthy Habits - Intermediate Catalan
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!...
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Season 2
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Episode 8
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32:21
S2. E7. Més menjar! More food! + Comparatives - Intermediate Catalan
Ei! Com anem?This episode is packed with food and drink vocab, as well as learning how to give comparisons in Catalan - like more than, less than, as... as. We also recap common opinions and adjectives to give lots of different thoughts...
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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36:44
S2. E6. La Fruita i La Verdura - Fruit & Veg + Opinions & Adjectives - Intermediate Catalan
Ei! Com anem?This episode is all about fruits & vegetables! Learn vocabulary for lots of common fruit and veg, as well as giving justified opinions on them with adjectives to describe them. We will recap how to give singular and plural ...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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38:45
S2. E5. QUIZ TIME! Review of Lessons 1-4 - Intermediate Catalan
Benvinguts i benvingudes de nou!It's time to put your knowledge of Catalan to the test! You've reached the first review episode of season 2.The last few lessons were a lot about people and relationships! We learned all about personality...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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31:15
S2. E4. Romantic Relationships - Intermediate Catalan
Hola!This episode delves into the topic of romantic relationships - from how to say you are in one, that you are in love or that you are going on dates!Thank you as always to all of you for tuning in. We hope you are continuing ...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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30:03
S2: E3. Relationships with Family & Friends (+ reflexives & possessive articles) - Intermediate Catalan
Ei! Com va?This episode is all about relationships - you will learn how to say whether you have a good/bad relationship with people (recapping family members vocabulary), verbs like 'to respect' and 'to trust', as well as practising some po...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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31:40
S2: E2. Emotions! - Using 'estar' vs 'ser' & much more! - Intermediate Catalan
Welcome back! It's a long one! (Oops, Christina getting carried away and letting these go on longer and longer - we'll try to keep them shorter for you in the future!)In this episode we delve deeper into talking about different feelings...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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48:00
SEASON 2: 1. Personality Descriptions - Intermediate Catalan
Sign up to the waiting list of our new course!:https://christina5.podia.com/catalan-for-beginners-podcast-courseWelcome back!! Benvinguts i benvingudes de nou!!Com ha anat l'estiu? How was your summer? Are you ready to ...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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41:19
50. FINAL EPISODE! - HOLIDAYS - Can you talk about your holidays in different tenses? - Catalan for Beginners
We have made it to episode 50!!In this episode, we put everything we have learned in the last 4 lessons (and beyond) into practice by seeing if we can understand some short texts about holidays.It's a bit of a longer one to end this...
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Season 1
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Episode 50
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48:04
49. The Conditional Tense - El Condicional - Catalan for Beginners
Benvinguts i benvingudes de nou! This episode will teach you how to use the conditional tense to talk about hypothetical things - things you 'would' do... But not just 'you', as you will learn all the pronouns so you can easily manipulate lots ...
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Season 1
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Episode 49
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34:21
48. The Future Tense - El Futur Simple - Catalan for Beginners
Benvinguts i benvingudes al episodi 48!So far we've covered present and past tenses, this one is all about the future! (The most common future tense - the simple future). We hope it is simple for you to understand and use ;)You will als...
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Season 1
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Episode 48
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39:09
47. The Past Tense - El Perifràstic - Catalan for Beginners
Hola!In this lesson you will learn all about the 'perifràstic' tense to talk about what you did in the past.You will also learn some time expressions in the past to use with these verbs and we're particularly focussed on describing holi...
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Season 1
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Episode 47
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33:22
46. The Present Tense - El Present - Catalan for Beginners
Welcome back! Benvinguts i benvingudes de nou!This episode is all about the present tense!We are delving into the grammar side of things much more in the next few lessons so that we can begin to really feel confident in communicatin...
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Season 1
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Episode 46
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42:23