Juan Gabriel Saiz Varona

Learning Languages in Society with Gabi.

Education EN ↓ 55 episodes

Learning Languages in society with Gabi is your podcasting and blogging go-to resource especially designed for advanced language learners like you so that you can feel better integrated in a new linguistic and social environment with the help of sociolinguistics. By listening to this podcast you will: 1. Find useful tips to keep up the high level you have achieved in your favorite languages and brush up on your language skills. 2. Learn how to decode the linguistic and cultural intricacies of our societies so you can deepen your knowledge of the culture whose language you are studying and beco...

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Juan Gabriel Saiz Varona

Episodes

#005 - Check out the cardinal numbers in Italian! 24.08.2023 17:59

#005 - In this episode Gabi explores the logic of the cardinal numbers in Italian and reads out a short dialogue intended to be memorized. In the second section, he analyzes some of the divergences between linguistic approaches in language evolution. Check out my blog: https://learninglanguagesinsocietywithgabi.com/blog/ Click on the Click on the link below to check paper on language evolution bel...

#004 - Interview with Laura Couch Polyglot 18.08.2023 29:57

#004 - Gabi interviews in this episode Laura from couch Polyglot. The conversation touches on various topics including growing up multilingual, studying and working in international environments and much more. Be sure to listen to it! Check out my blog: https://learninglanguagesinsocietywithgabi.com/blog/ Click on the link below to check Laura's podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/0mPgiqwR...

#003 - Discover the fascinating Italian articles! 09.08.2023 23:49

#003 - In this episode Gabi unravels the secrets of the determinate, indeterminate and partitive articles and regular verbs in Italian! And in the last half he delves into the different views regarding language evolution in the science of language. Check out my blog: https://learninglanguagesinsocietywithgabi.com/blog/ Click on the link below to check paper on language evolution below https://le...

#002 - Quick way to hack Italian phonetics! 02.08.2023 32:38

#002 - Gabi is on a mission in this episode to teach the essentials of Italian phonetics and give a small taste of the spelling and phonetic rules. In the second section, Gabi takes a further look at the arguments and counterarguments for Universal Grammar. I hope you enjoyed this second episode as much as I did when I made it. We learned the Italian alphabet and tried some fun tongue twisters! We...

#001 - The number one trick to learn a foreign language. 04.07.2023 24:21

#001 - In this first episode Gabi reveals what he thinks is the key to start speaking a new language right from the onset of the learning process. Additionally, he introduces Avram Noam Chomsky and gives a quick taste of the science of language. Syntactic Structures (1957) Current Issues in Linguistic Theory (1964) Aspects of the Theory of Syntax (1965) Cartesian Linguistics (1965) Language and Mi...