Hi! I love learning languages and everything related to them— connections, unique qualities, history/evolution, and more. I'm an aspiring (or wannabe) polyglot and want to share my love of languages while also being educational to help others learn these languages. If you have any suggestions or ideas, send me a message through Anchor!
Wannabe Polyglot
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Hi! I love learning languages and everything related to them— connections, unique qualities, history/evolution, and more. I'm an aspiring (or wannabe) polyglot and want to share my love of languages while also being educational to help others learn these languages. If you have any suggestions or ideas, send me a message through Anchor!
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8/7/2021
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September 5, 2022
El Català/The Catalan Language
<p>Hi everyone! In this episode I invited my friend Andrea to talk about the Catalan language, Catalan culture, and more! See below for a more detailed breakdown of topics and when they appear, some corrections for errors I made in the episode, and links to the Catalan resources mentioned in the video.</p> <p><strong>Topics</strong></p> <p>0:00- Podcast Updates/Current Plan for Episodes</p> <p>3:12- Introducing Current Episode and Guest</p> <p>4:32- Andrea's Story/Past with Catalan</p> <p>8:39- My Story with Catalan</p> <p>10:18- Andrea talks about being able to understand Catalan better than she can speak it</p> <p>13:26- Many Catalan words are similar to French and Spanish but Catalan still has lots of unique words</p> <p>15:11- The letter 'x' in Catalan and some fun words with it</p> <p>17:29- We both talk about our habit of going from Spanish to Catalan and confusion with false friends</p> <p>19:50- Catalan words sometimes look the same as English words because of its unique spelling</p> <p>20:54- The Catalan Duolingo course</p> <p>22:40- Catalan representation (or lack thereof) and people not knowing about it</p> <p>23:50- Is Catalan a 'minority language?' (I talk about the number of speakers)</p> <p>24:55- Catalan shows on Netflix (in the US)</p> <p>26:22- TV3, the most popular Catalan TV channel (news, shows, performances, Youtube channel)</p> <p>31:58- Weird sentences in the Catalan Duolingo course Andrea has seen</p> <p>34:37- What resources you can use to learn Catalan</p> <p>35:43- Our experiences with the Catalan Duolingo course and its pros and cons</p> <p>38:11- Where else Catalan is spoken outside Catalonia</p> <p>39:47- The unique Catalan past tense</p> <p>42:44- Catalan weak pronouns and their (in)famous combinations</p> <p>48:00- Catalan Christmas culture weird to foreigners (caganer, cagatió, capgrossos)</p> <p>53:29- Music Recommendations and Wrapping Up</p> <p><br></p> <p><strong>Corrections</strong></p> <p>16:44- I misspell 'xarxa' (net/network in Catalan)</p> <p>38:20- Alghero (Alguer in Catalan) is in Sardinia, not Sicily</p> <p>39:50- The tense is the periphrastic past (not passive periphrastic, which I remembered from Latin)</p> <p>40:27- vaig anar means I went not I ate (that would be vaig menjar)</p> <p>42:34- I meant to say 'literary' instead of 'historical' since another past periphrastic is used colloquially</p> <p>45:32- "tell it to me" would be digues-m'ho (not "diu-me'l")</p> <p><br></p> <p><strong>Resources</strong></p> <ul> <li>TV3 (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/Tv3Cat" target="_blank">Youtube</a> and <a href="https://www.ccma.cat/tv3/" target="_blank">Website</a>)</li> <li>Julia Riera/Daily Catalan (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcS4pF5kDYoIyMV6IKMRR5g" target="_blank">Youtube </a>and <a href="https://www.instagram.com/dailycatalan/" target="_blank">Instagram</a>)</li> <li>Catala al Natural (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAUs47G3wtvo94GA0d7aauA" target="_blank">Youtube </a>and <a href="https://www.instagram.com/catala_al_natural/" target="_blank">Instagram</a>)</li> <li>Couch Polyglot (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/CouchPolyglot" target="_blank">Youtube </a>and <a href="https://www.instagram.com/couch_polyglot/" target="_blank">Instagram</a>)</li> <li>Easy Catalan (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/EasyCatalan" target="_blank">Youtube </a>and <a href="https://www.instagram.com/easycatalanvideos/" target="_blank">Instagram</a>)</li> </ul>
August 7, 2021
Introduction and Some Facts about Telugu
<p>Hi everyone! I love learning languages and talking about languages, so I started this podcast. For my first episode, I talked about who I am, my language learning journey/abilities and weaknesses, and shared some interesting facts about my mother tongue Telugu. I hope you enjoy!</p>
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