Learn Catalan - The Lazy Linguist Podcast

Send us Fan Mail 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 Catalan for Begi...

Send us Fan Mail 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 details about where you live. We covered a lot of grammar like reflexive verbs, possessive articles and pronouns and using adjectives correctly. Let us know...

Send us Fan Mail 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...

Send us Fan Mail 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...

Send us Fan Mail 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 c...

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

Send us Fan Mail 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...

Send us Fan Mail 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 Pat...

Send us Fan Mail 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...

Send us Fan Mail 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 th...

Send us Fan Mail 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 episode...

Send us Fan Mail 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...

Send us Fan Mail 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 Catalan for Beginners Course: Catalan for Beginners Course Details of group Lessons: Group Programmes Patreon (Bonus content for Season 2): The Lazy Linguist Buy us a coff...

Send us Fan Mail Ei! In this episode of the Lazy Linguist Catalan for Beginners we learn words and phrases associated with the weather. Support the show Catalan for Beginners Course: Catalan for Beginners Course Details of group Lessons: Group Programmes Patreon (Bonus content for Season 2): The Lazy Linguist Buy us a coffee: Buy me a Coffee   Instagram: @lazylinguistcatalan   Facebook: The Lazy L...

Send us Fan Mail 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 s...

Send us Fan Mail 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 goin...

Send us Fan Mail Hola! Com va? Esperem que estiguis bé. It has become a bit of a tradition that after every 4 lessons we do a little review episode and put our knowledge to the test! Christina always says this but retrieval practice is key so listening to this episode and testing yourself is just as important as listening to the other episodes. It is really important to make sure we are confident...

Send us Fan Mail Ei! Com anem? This episode will teach you how to get by when clothes shopping, from asking where the changing rooms are to asking for different sizes, colours etc, you will learn a range of language to help you shop for clothes successfully. We hope you enjoy it and thank you as always for listening and your continued support. Thank you to our new Patreons Mike and Judy! Please vi...

Send us Fan Mail Hola! Com anem? This lesson will teach you some shopping vocabulary, from knowing different types of shops, to asking at what time they open and close and recognising signs, to asking the shop assistant for help. We hope you enjoy it. Thank you very much for listening. We really appreciate you following along and are so glad that we can help you with your Catalan. Please keep shar...

Send us Fan Mail Hola! Com va tot? This lesson focuses on medical situations, including emergencies and how to get help/call an ambulance, but also things that you might need to say at the doctor's to explain how you are ill, or asking for medication at the pharmacy. We hope you enjoy it! Feel free to get in touch with any questions or even ideas for language to cover in future episodes. You...

Send us Fan Mail Hola! We missed you!  So after 20 weeks of weekly posting, it has caught up to us and at the moment with the busy house move and lots going on in our lives, we have decided to go bi-weekly on the podcasts (just temporarily until we are settled into our new place!). We hope you understand! There will still be weekly content on the Patreon so if you want to try that out we are offer...

Send us Fan Mail Hola! Com estàs? This lesson is another review lesson where we put everything we have done over the last four lessons to the test! Follow along and see if you can beat Alex's score in this translation challenge! Keep reading to find out how he did as we lost track of his score!... Alex got 8/10 in the first half and 7/10 in the second half, so 15/20 altogether! Not a bad scor...

Send us Fan Mail Hola! Com va? This lesson will teach you some of the language you may need to know at the airport.  Are you planning any trips to Catalonia/Andorra/any other Catalan speaking regions? Let us know! You can find our socials and more information about our Patreon linked below. Thank you again to all of our Patreon's and listeners. We really appreciate any support. Support the sh...

Send us Fan Mail Bon dia, bona tarda, bona nit! Hope you are well! This episode covers how to get by on public transport, something that can be quite stressful in a different country! It also features how to tell the time, something else that be quite confusing in Catalan! We hope you enjoy! Let us know what you think and chat to us on social media in the links below: Support the show Catalan for...

Send us Fan Mail Hola! Com va tot? This lesson teaches you how to ask for directions as well as understand and give directions yourself! We hope you enjoy it and find it useful. Get in touch with us and let us know what you think :) Apologies for the slight delay in this week's episode, it's been a busy weekend! Click the 'Support the show' link or the Patreon link to find out...