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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... . Please get in touch and let us know if you are also learning Catalan! Instagram - @lazylinguistcatalan ... Facebook page - The Lazy Linguist Podcast... 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 ... 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!

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United Kingdom

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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... . Please get in touch and let us know if you are also learning Catalan! Instagram - @lazylinguistcatalan ... Facebook page - The Lazy Linguist Podcast... 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 ... 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!

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English


Episodes
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43. Instruments, Music & Emotions - Catalan for Beginners

4/25/2024
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, share the podcast with a friend who you think might like it and if you really want to be our best friend you can consider becoming a Patreon! You will get lots of supporting material there as well as bonus lessons and it really helps our project :) Moltes gràcies! Support the Show. 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

Duration:00:28:07

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42. TV & Film - Què mires? Què no mires? Shows & Negative expressions - Catalan for Beginners

4/8/2024
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 'Buymeacoffee'. Feel free to get in touch on social media and let us know if you are enjoying the podcast or any feedback you have for us. All the links are below: Support the Show. 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

Duration:00:38:14

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41. Sport! Esport! How often do you play different sports? - Catalan for Beginners

3/25/2024
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. 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

Duration:00:29:37

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40. QUIZ! Can you talk about your routines and where you live? Review lesson - Catalan for Beginners

3/10/2024
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 detailed about where you live. We covered a lot of grammar like reflexive verbs, possessive articles and pronouns and using adjectives correctly. Let us know how you did out of 20! Did you beat Alex's score? Support the Show. 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

Duration:00:37:46

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39. Rooms in the house, Possessives & More adjectives!

2/25/2024
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 a coffee. The links are below. Thank you already to all of our Patrons and to you for listening to the episode. Let us know if there is anything specific you want us to cover in future episodes. Support the Show. 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

Duration:00:35:34

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38. Describing your Region/Home - Catalan for Beginners

2/13/2024
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 their continued support. Feel free to get in touch with any questions or requests of things for us to cover in future episodes. You can find information about our socials and our Patreon all linked below: Support the Show. 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

Duration:00:36:24

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37. Daily Routine (Afternoon/Evening/Night) - Catalan for Beginners

1/28/2024
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 can join our Patreon by clicking this link: Patreon. You can chat to us on our socials linked below or send us an email at thelazylinguistpodcast@gmail.com Support the Show. 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

Duration:00:15:04

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36. My Morning Routine (& Reflexive verbs!) - Catalan for Beginners

1/14/2024
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. 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

Duration:00:30:12

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35. Bon any! Review of the last 4 lessons - Catalan for Beginners

12/31/2023
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 videochat on Monday 8th January! Thank you for the support, it has really helped keep this project going this year and we hope to be able to continue making these lessons and helping you make great progress on your Catalan journey this year. Support the Show. 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

Duration:00:30:57

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34. Catalan Christmas Traditions and vocabulary! - Catalan for Beginners

12/17/2023
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 Patreon you can find us at The Lazy Linguist - Catalan | Learning Catalan the easy way - Beyond the Podcast. | Patreon If you cannot afford/do not want to commit to the Patreon but still want to give your thanks as a one off, you can buy us a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/lazylinguist Thank you for listening! Moltes gràcies :) Support the Show. 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

Duration:00:32:09

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33. The Alphabet, Pronunciation & Catalan Music! - Catalan for Beginners

12/3/2023
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 any! We also talk about more Catalan music in the bonus episode, as well as talking about different genres of music and how to give opinions on them. You can find out more on our Patreon: The Lazy Linguist - Catalan | Learning Catalan the easy way - Beyond the Podcast. | Patreon Support the Show. 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

Duration:00:32:28

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32. Days of the Week & Present Tense (Hobbies) - Catalan for Beginners

11/19/2023
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 this episode, so you can talk about what you do. We will delve deeper into all aspects of the present tense in a future episode, but in the meantime if you want to learn more, our bonus content on Patreon will teach you more about the present tense so you can start using it confidently asap! Support the Show. 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

Duration:00:26:09

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31. Months & Dates - When is your birthday? - Catalan for Beginners

11/6/2023
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 episodes, summaries of the vocab and detailed lesson notes over on our Patreon (The Lazy Linguist) - linked below: Thank you to all of our Patrons for the support as always and thank you fo listening! Support the Show. 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

Duration:00:20:08

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30. QUIZ TIME! Can you talk about colours, clothes, the weather, pets and jobs? - Catalan for Beginners

10/24/2023
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 forgotten them! It's a long one, and we debated splitting it and using some of it in the bonus episode, however we want to make as much free content for you as possible. It took us a long time to record this one as there were planes flying past our house every 3 minutes! So we hope you appreciate the effort haha. Let us know how you scored out of 20 and whether you managed to follow the conversation! If you do want to support the show, as well as rating and sharing it, you can can consider becoming a member of our Patreon community. You can find out more info in the page linked below: Support the Show. 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

Duration:00:43:41

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29. Jobs & Opinions - Catalan for Beginners

10/12/2023
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. 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

Duration:00:29:01

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28. Describing the Weather! - Catalan for Beginners

9/25/2023
Ei! In this episode of the Lazy Linguist Catalan for Beginners we learn words and phrases associated with the weather. Support the Show. 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

Duration:00:27:53

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27. All about pets! Do you have pets? Describing pets - Catalan for Beginners

9/14/2023
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 support further you can become a Patron and gain access to lots of exclusive features. Fins la propera! Support the Show. 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

Duration:00:24:51

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26. Clothes & Colours - Catalan for Beginners

8/28/2023
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 going. Soon we are hoping to set up a little studio/office in our new place and invest into a better microphone with your help! Support the Show. 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

Duration:00:33:28

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Episodi 25. Quiz and review of the last 4 lessons - Hotel, medical, shopping situations and more!

8/16/2023
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 with what we have learnt so far before we start adding new material so that it doesn't feel too difficult for us later on! Did you beat Alex's score? Let us know what score you got by getting in touch on our socials! Information about our socials and Patreon is below. Support the Show. 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

Duration:00:31:35

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Episodi 24. Clothes Shopping. Em queda bé! - Catalan for Beginners

8/1/2023
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 visit the Patreon for more information about some speaking sessions/chats on our Discord, happening on the first Monday of every month! Support the Show. 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

Duration:00:30:12