Best Notes In Spanish Advanced Podcasts (2025)

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S2. E17 - L'Imperfet P2 - Plurals & Irregulars! - Intermediate Catalan 40:18

8d ago40:18

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Send us a text In this episode we dive deeper into the imperfect tense! Make sure you listen to the last episode where we talked about the imperfect and the singular forms of common verbs before you listen to this one. In this one we look at the plural conjugations as well as some of the strange irregularities that happen to the root of a lot of ve…

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S2: E16 - The Imperfect Tense - Com era la teva escola? - Intermediate Catalan 37:20

21d ago37:20

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Send us a text Join us for this episode as we dive a little deeper into the Imperfect Tense in Catalan. We use this tense to talk about recurring actions in the past or to describe things in the past. Tune in to find out more and specifically how to talk about what our school days were like! Let us know how you found the episode/how you are finding…

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S2: E15 - QUIZ! - Review of Eps 11-14 - Intermediate Catalan 47:17

1M ago47:17

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Send us a text Join Alex on a translation challenge! We review the last 4 lessons on the perfect tense, superlatives and talking about mental health/hobbies. There are 10 sentences to translate from Catalan into English, and 10 from English into Catalan - they weren't easy so well done if you got some! Let us know your score! Support the show Group…

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S2. E14 - The Superlative - The Best & Worst hobbies! - Intermediate Catalan 34:52

2M ago34:52

34:52

Send us a text Hola! This episode is all about using the superlative in Catalan. You'll learn how to say the most or the least of things, for example the most interesting, the least funny, the most fun etc... also the words for tallest/shorterst/fastest/slowest etc, which use the same structure. The words for the best and the worst are a bit differ…

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S2. E13. El Perfet - Irregular Verbs & More Practice - Intermediate Catalan 32:19

2M ago32:19

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Send us a text Hola! Com va? This is part 2 on the perfect tense! Last lesson we learned the basic use and formation of the singular pronouns, this episode will focus on a lot of the irregularities with the past participles as well as teach you how to use the rest of the pronouns so that you can talk about what a variety of people have done in the …

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S2. E12. Another past tense! El perfet - The Perfect Tense - Intermediate Catalan 36:46

3M ago36:46

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Send us a text Welcome back! Thanks for stopping by. This episode goes into detail on how and when we use the perfect tense - another common past tense! We learned the perifràstic tense in season 1, but this season we want to be able to use multiple tenses and use them in the right way, as this is often something that learners find tricky! Hope you…

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S2. E11. Mental Health - La Salut Mental - Intermediate Catalan 39:30

3M ago39:30

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Send us a text Benvinguts a un altre episodi! Welcome to another episode! We've previously talked about health, but focussed more on physical health and how to take care of your body, but taking care of your mind is just as important! This episode dives into a few ways of expressing emotions or situations like feeling pressure, stress, overwhelm et…

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S2. E10 - Review of 6-9 (Quiz & Dialogue on Food & Healthy Habits) - Intermediate Catalan 36:03

4M ago36:03

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Send us a text Ei! Com va? This is a review episode where Alex and you are put to the test! Do you remember the language from the last four episodes on different food types and healthy/unhealthy lifestyles? Try the quiz and see how you get on! We then practise a lot of this language even more in the context of a conversation, by hearing and dissect…

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S2. E9. Giving Advice - Healthy & Unhealthy Habits - Intermediate Catalan 31:54

4M ago31:54

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Send us a text Ei! Com va? Bon any! (If you are listening just before or around the new year!) This episode is a part 2 to the last episode where we talked about healthy and unhealthy habits. We break down a dialogue which is one person giving advice to someone else about their unhealthy habits. There is some language that practises what was learne…

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S2. E8. Health! La Salut! Healthy and Unhealthy Habits - Intermediate Catalan 32:21

4M ago32:21

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Send us a text Ei! Com va tot? We are back with an episode talking all about health! How do you say you have healthy habits in Catalan? Or unhealthy habits? We'll also cover some more complex opinions and hear a dialogue from Christina and a new voice! We hope you enjoy the episode! Please subscribe and rate/review it if you haven't already. Help u…

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S2. E7. Més menjar! More food! + Comparatives - Intermediate Catalan 36:44

5M ago36:44

36:44

Send us a text Ei! Com anem? This episode is packed with food and drink vocab, as well as learning how to give comparisons in Catalan - like more than, less than, as... as. We also recap common opinions and adjectives to give lots of different thoughts on different types of food! We hope you enjoy it! It would mean the world if you gave us a rating…

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S2. E6. La Fruita i La Verdura - Fruit & Veg + Opinions & Adjectives - Intermediate Catalan 38:45

5M ago38:45

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Send us a text Ei! Com anem? This episode is all about fruits & vegetables! Learn vocabulary for lots of common fruit and veg, as well as giving justified opinions on them with adjectives to describe them. We will recap how to give singular and plural opinons and see how a lot of them change, as well as the verbs like 'és' and 'són'. We hope you en…

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S2. E5. QUIZ TIME! Review of Lessons 1-4 - Intermediate Catalan 31:15

6M ago31:15

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Send us a text Benvinguts i benvingudes de nou! It's time to put your knowledge of Catalan to the test! You've reached the first review episode of season 2. The last few lessons were a lot about people and relationships! We learned all about personality descriptions, talking about emotions, relationships with others as well as romantic relationship…

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S2. E4. Romantic Relationships - Intermediate Catalan 30:03

6M ago30:03

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Send us a text Hola! This episode delves into the topic of romantic relationships - from how to say you are in one, that you are in love or that you are going on dates! Thank you as always to all of you for tuning in. We hope you are continuing to enjoy the episodes and they are helping you on your Catalan learning journey. We would love it if you …

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S2: E3. Relationships with Family & Friends (+ reflexives & possessive articles) - Intermediate Catalan 31:40

7M ago31:40

31:40

Send us a text Ei! 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 …

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S2: E2. Emotions! - Using 'estar' vs 'ser' & much more! - Intermediate Catalan 48:00

7M ago48:00

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Send us a text Welcome 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…

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SEASON 2: 1. Personality Descriptions - Intermediate Catalan 41:19

8M ago41:19

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Send us a text Sign up to the waiting list of our new course!: https://christina5.podia.com/catalan-for-beginners-podcast-course Welcome 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 furth…

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50. FINAL EPISODE! - HOLIDAYS - Can you talk about your holidays in different tenses? - Catalan for Beginners 48:04

9M ago48:04

48:04

Send us a text We 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 epi…

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49. The Conditional Tense - El Condicional - Catalan for Beginners 34:21

10M ago34:21

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Send us a text Benvinguts 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 wo…

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48. The Future Tense - El Futur Simple - Catalan for Beginners 39:09

10M ago39:09

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Send us a text Benvinguts 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 an…

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47. The Past Tense - El Perifràstic - Catalan for Beginners 33:22

11M ago33:22

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Send us a text Hola! 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 …

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46. The Present Tense - El Present - Catalan for Beginners 42:23

11M ago42:23

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Send us a text Welcome 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 alr…

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45. REVIEW - Can you understand a conversation about sports, TV, music and school? - Catalan for Beginners 35:41

11M ago35:41

35:41

Send us a text Welcome 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 …

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44. School life & Subjects - Catalan for Beginners 37:04

12M ago37:04

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Send us a text Ei! 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/educ…

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43. Instruments, Music & Emotions - Catalan for Beginners 28:41

1y ago28:41

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Send us a text 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 w…

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42. TV & Film - Què mires? Què no mires? Shows & Negative expressions - Catalan for Beginners 38:48

1y ago38:48

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Send us a text 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, becom…

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41. Sport! Esport! How often do you play different sports? - Catalan for Beginners 30:11

1y ago30:11

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Send us a text 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 ou…

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40. QUIZ! Can you talk about your routines and where you live? Review lesson - Catalan for Beginners 38:20

1y ago38:20

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Send us a text 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 pron…

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39. Rooms in the house, Possessives & More adjectives! - Catalan for Beginners 35:23

1y ago35:23

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Send us a text 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,…

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38. Describing your Region/Home - Catalan for Beginners 36:14

1y ago36:14

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Send us a text 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 al…

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37. Daily Routine (Afternoon/Evening/Night) - Catalan for Beginners 26:19

1y ago26:19

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Send us a text 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 …

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36. My Morning Routine (& Reflexive verbs!) - Catalan for Beginners 30:54

1+ y ago30:54

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Send us a text 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 th…

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35. Bon any! Review of the last 4 lessons - Catalan for Beginners 31:31

1+ y ago31:31

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Send us a text 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…

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34. Catalan Christmas Traditions and vocabulary! - Catalan for Beginners 33:26

1+ y ago33:26

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Send us a text 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 Patr…

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33. The Alphabet, Pronunciation & Catalan Music! - Catalan for Beginners 33:02

1+ y ago33:02

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Send us a text 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…

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32. Days of the Week & Present Tense (Hobbies) - Catalan for Beginners 26:31

1+ y ago26:31

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Send us a text 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…

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31. Months & Dates - When is your birthday? - Catalan for Beginners 25:14

1+ y ago25:14

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Send us a text 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 bi…

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30. QUIZ TIME! Can you talk about colours, clothes, the weather, pets and jobs? - Catalan for Beginners 44:11

1+ y ago44:11

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Send us a text 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…

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29. Jobs & Opinions - Catalan for Beginners 29:15

1+ y ago29:15

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Send us a text 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 Group Lessons starting 7th April 2025: Group Programmes Beginners Course: Catalan for Beginners Course Patreon: The Lazy Linguis…

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28. Describing the Weather! - Catalan for Beginners 28:27

1+ y ago28:27

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Send us a text Ei! In this episode of the Lazy Linguist Catalan for Beginners we learn words and phrases associated with the weather. Support the show Group Lessons starting 7th April 2025: Group Programmes Beginners Course: Catalan for Beginners Course Patreon: The Lazy Linguist Buy us a coffee: Buy me a Coffee Instagram: @lazylinguistcatalan Face…

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27. All about pets! Do you have pets? Describing pets - Catalan for Beginners 25:25

1+ y ago25:25

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Send us a text 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…

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26. Clothes & Colours - Catalan for Beginners 34:02

1+ y ago34:02

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Send us a text 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 o…

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Episodi 25. Quiz and review of the last 4 lessons - Hotel, medical, shopping situations and more! 32:09

1+ y ago32:09

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Send us a text 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…

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Episodi 24. Clothes Shopping. Em queda bé! - Catalan for Beginners 30:46

1+ y ago30:46

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Send us a text 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 …

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Episodi 23. Let's go shopping! - Catalan for Beginners 27:31

2y ago27:31

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Send us a text 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 …

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Episodi 22. Medical situations and emergencies - Catalan for Beginners 23:39

2y ago23:39

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Send us a text 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…

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Episodi 21. At the hotel - Booking accommodation - Catalan for Beginners 31:00

2y ago31:00

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Send us a text 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 Patr…

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Episodi 20. QUIZ! Can you actually travel in Catalan? - Catalan for Beginners 31:16

2y ago31:16

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Send us a text 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 secon…

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Episodi 19. Don't miss your flight! Getting around the airport - Catalan for Beginners 29:28

2y ago29:28

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Send us a text 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 rea…

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Episodi 18. What time does the train leave? Public transport and telling the time - Catalan for Beginners 25:09

2y ago25:09

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Send us a text 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 i…

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