Learn Catalan - The Lazy Linguist Podcast

Send us Fan Mail 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 ge...

Send us Fan Mail 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 Catalan for Beginners Course: Catalan for Begin...

Send us Fan Mail 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...

Send us Fan Mail 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...

Send us Fan Mail 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...

Send us Fan Mail 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...

Send us Fan Mail 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...

Send us Fan Mail 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...

Send us Fan Mail 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...

Send us Fan Mail 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 on different types of food! We hope you enjoy it! It would mean the world if you gave us a rating/review or shared this with a friend. Fins aviat...

Send us Fan Mail 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 opinons and see how a lot of them change, as well as the verbs like 'és' and 'són'. We hope you enjoy! Gaudiu! Remember ou...

Send us Fan Mail 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 descriptions, talking about emotions, relationships with others as well as romantic relationships. Let us know how you did in the quiz...

Send us Fan Mail 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 to enjoy the episodes and they are helping you on your Catalan learning journey.  We would love it if you left a quick rating or review if you haven&apos...

Send us Fan Mail 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 possessive articles like my, your, his/her but also learning how to say 'our'! We've jam packed it but also t...

Send us Fan Mail 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/states/emotions, and we'll see them used in many contexts, learning more new vocabulary along the way! We'll also talk a litt...

Send us Fan Mail Sign up to the waiting list of our new course!: https://christina5.podia.com/catalan-for-beginners-podcast-course Welcome back!! Benvinguts i benvingudes de nou!! Com ha anat l'estiu? How was your summer?  Are you ready to continue with your Catalan journey? We are so excited to be starting season 2! You will be progressing even further with the Podcasts this season, as we he...

Send us Fan Mail 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 season! Hopefully that's a good thing as it means extra practice, but we will try to keep future episodes to under 30 minutes :) Thank you...

Send us Fan Mail 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 of verbs to include talking about other people. We hope you find it useful as always. We would love it if you rated or...

Send us Fan Mail 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 also learn some time expressions in the future tense so that you can use these verbs in sentences and start talking about future plans, includi...

Send us Fan Mail 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 holidays. There will be more practise in the bonus episode on how to talk about your holidays in the past, using what you have learned...

Send us Fan Mail 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 communicating in different tenses, since we always use them in our every day conversations. We have obviously already seen aspects of the present tense, but this...

Send us Fan Mail 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...

Send us Fan Mail 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 a...

Send us Fan Mail 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, s...

Send us Fan Mail 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 &...