45. REVIEW - Can you understand a conversation about sports, TV, music and school? - Catalan for Beginners

Send us a textEi! 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 tried to keep it a little shorter this time!Let us know if you liked the episode :)(If you are wondering, we are still working tirelessly behind the scenes on the course we mentioned - it is taking a lot longer to complete than expected but we want to make it as good as possible for you guys! Stay tuned and sign up to our email newsletter to be the first to know (and maybe get a cheeky discount upon launch!))Support the showCourse: Sign up to our course waiting listPatreon: The Lazy Linguist Buy us a coffee: Buy me a Coffee Instagram: @lazylinguistcatalan Facebook: The Lazy Linguist PodcastChristina offers private lessons - enquire through a DM on socials or through the link: Private lessons

Send us a textWelcome 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 little bit about the difference between the verbs 'ser' and 'estar' and using other phrases like 'em sento'.Let us know what you thought of the episode!We would love it if you left us a quick rating or even a review.Thank you so much for listening and your support as always.Support the showCourse: Sign up to our course waiting listPatreon: The Lazy Linguist Buy us a coffee: Buy me a Coffee Instagram: @lazylinguistcatalan Facebook: The Lazy Linguist PodcastChristina offers private lessons - enquire through a DM on socials or through the link: Private lessons

Send us a textSign up to the waiting list of our new course!:https://christina5.podia.com/catalan-for-beginners-podcast-courseWelcome 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 head to more intermediate territory.We are kicking off the season with an episode that teaches you how to talk about people's personality/character traits - you will not only learn lots of new vocabulary but practice understanding the words in the context of phrases. Plus, you will now also learn a couple of new idioms - something else that we are introducing in season 2!Let us know what you thought of the episode. As we mentioned in the episode, we are delighted to announce that we have been working on a course to help you consolidate your knowledge from season 1.If you feel like you would benefit from extra listening material, detailed lesson notes, language summaries, flashcards, quizzes and videos, you can sign up to the waiting list to receive a special discount once the course goes live!https://christina5.podia.com/catalan-for-beginners-podcast-courseGràcies per escoltar - Thank you for listening :)Support the showCourse: Sign up to our course waiting listPatreon: The Lazy Linguist Buy us a coffee: Buy me a Coffee Instagram: @lazylinguistcatalan Facebook: The Lazy Linguist PodcastChristina offers private lessons - enquire through a DM on socials or through the link: Private lessons

Send us a textWe 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 so much for tuning in and if you have listened to all 50 episodes - we hope they have been useful to you on your Catalan journey. We have loved meeting a lot of you (virtually and even in person!) and we hope to meet many more of you and get to know you even more. Please don't be shy - feel free to reach out to us either over email ([email protected]) or social media (you can find linked below). Even if just for a quick hello to let us know you are listening, or also we would love feedback and to get your ideas on what more you want from the pod in season 2.We will be back in September but in the meantime you might want to keep up with us on social media - since we are going back to Catalunya we will likely post a little on there... fins aviat! Support the showCourse: Sign up to our course waiting listPatreon: The Lazy Linguist Buy us a coffee: Buy me a Coffee Instagram: @lazylinguistcatalan Facebook: The Lazy Linguist PodcastChristina offers private lessons - enquire through a DM on socials or through the link: Private lessons

Send us a textBenvinguts 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 reviewed the pod if you haven't already.Feel free to get in touch on our socials or through the 'Send us a text' feature for any feedback or what you want covering in future episodes.Moltes gràcies :)Support the showCourse: Sign up to our course waiting listPatreon: The Lazy Linguist Buy us a coffee: Buy me a Coffee Instagram: @lazylinguistcatalan Facebook: The Lazy Linguist PodcastChristina offers private lessons - enquire through a DM on socials or through the link: Private lessons

Send us a textBenvinguts 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, including holiday plans!We do lots more practice in the bonus episode so join us for that if you think you could benefit and you will also have access to lesson notes from the lessons on Patreon to help you refer to when you want to go back and recap the tenses.The Patreon is linked below or you can find it by typing 'The Lazy Linguist' on Patreon.Thank you as always for listening. We would love it if you rated/reviewed or shared the show with anyone you think would like it or find it useful.Moltes gràcies!Support the showCourse: Sign up to our course waiting listPatreon: The Lazy Linguist Buy us a coffee: Buy me a Coffee Instagram: @lazylinguistcatalan Facebook: The Lazy Linguist PodcastChristina offers private lessons - enquire through a DM on socials or through the link: Private lessons

Send us a textHola!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 about the past tense in this episode.We hope you enjoy and find it useful! Feel free to get in touch with any feedback and we would love it if you took a second to rate the pod - moltíssimes gràcies :)Support the showCourse: Sign up to our course waiting listPatreon: The Lazy Linguist Buy us a coffee: Buy me a Coffee Instagram: @lazylinguistcatalan Facebook: The Lazy Linguist PodcastChristina offers private lessons - enquire through a DM on socials or through the link: Private lessons

Send us a textWelcome 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 episode is going to break down exactly all of 'the rules' of how to form it for a huge variety of verbs.It is quite a lot of information to take in in this one so be sure to have a pen and paper to hand, or check our our detailed lesson notes on Patreon where this is all in writing and summarised into nice tables for you.We hope you enjoy and find it useful :)Support the showCourse: Sign up to our course waiting listPatreon: The Lazy Linguist Buy us a coffee: Buy me a Coffee Instagram: @lazylinguistcatalan Facebook: The Lazy Linguist PodcastChristina offers private lessons - enquire through a DM on socials or through the link: Private lessons

Send us a textWelcome 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 to work out its meaning.Let us know if you were able to follow along! And do you like these style of reviews? Do you like the quiz style? Is it helpful to recap language in this way? We would love to hear your feedback!You you can join us for a quiz in the bonus lesson to consolidate your knowledge even further, particular language learnt in those bonus episodes. You can access our bonus material on our Patreon which you can find by typing in Lazy Linguist or clicking the link below.Moltes gràcies per escoltar :)Support the showCourse: Sign up to our course waiting listPatreon: The Lazy Linguist Buy us a coffee: Buy me a Coffee Instagram: @lazylinguistcatalan Facebook: The Lazy Linguist PodcastChristina offers private lessons - enquire through a DM on socials or through the link: Private lessons

Send us a textEi! 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 and/or review the Podcast and share it with someone you think would like it.Fins la propera!Support the showCourse: Sign up to our course waiting listPatreon: The Lazy Linguist Buy us a coffee: Buy me a Coffee Instagram: @lazylinguistcatalan Facebook: The Lazy Linguist PodcastChristina offers private lessons - enquire through a DM on socials or through the link: Private lessons