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Learn Catalan - The Lazy Linguist PodcastS2. E24. A favor o en contra de les xarxes/la tecnologia?Send us a textSupport the showGroup Lessons starting September 2025: Group ProgrammesBeginners Course: Catalan for Beginners CoursePatreon: 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 lessons2025-07-2843 minLearn Catalan - The Lazy Linguist PodcastS2. E23. Humor a Internet - Ens petem de riure! - Intermediate CatalanSend us a textHola! Com anem?In this episode, we crack up while exploring Catalan memes, reels, and viral videos! Learn fun vocabulary and natural expressions to talk about digital humour, share jokes, and describe your favourite meme - all while improving your Catalan.If you found it useful, please be sure to give us a 5* rating/review - it really helps us spread the message and help others learn Catalan too 😊Support the showGroup Lessons starting September 2025: Group ProgrammesBeginners Course: Catalan for Beginners Course2025-07-1436 minLearn Catalan - The Lazy Linguist PodcastS2. E22 - Les Xarxes Socials - Social Media - Intermediate CatalanSend us a textIn this episode, we talk about how people communicate online today and go over essential Catalan vocabulary for social media platforms like Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook. You’ll learn useful expressions, hear a short dialogue, and by the end, you’ll be able to talk about your social media habits in Catalan. Com utilitzes les xarxes socials?Feel free to leave us a comment in Catalan!Support the showGroup Lessons starting September 2025: Group ProgrammesBeginners Course: Catalan for Beginners CoursePatreon: The Lazy...2025-06-3037 minLearn Catalan - The Lazy Linguist PodcastS2. E21 - La tecnologia - Com utilitzes la tecnologia? - Intermediate CatalanSend us a textBentornats a un altre episodi! This episode is all about how we use technology in Catalan. It's an introduction to talking about using different devices like phones, computers, laptops, tablets and more... along with lots of other language to describe what you do on these devices/the online word.Please rate if you enjoyed the episode and don't forget to follow so that you get notified about future episodes!Feel free to comment your own sentences about how you use your devices if you can do so o...2025-06-1635 minLearn Catalan - The Lazy Linguist PodcastS2: E20 - QUIZ. Review of l'Imperfet, Old Routines, Items in my Bag - Intermediate CatalanSend us a textHola! We're here with episode 20 and it's another review episode of the last 4 lessons - you'll hear a lot of sentences in the Imperfect tense, and specifically relating to things you used to do in the past, old routines at school, what you carried in your bag/pencil case and much more.There's a dialogue at the end which we go through in more detail in the bonus episode. If you consider becoming a Patron it will not only help you make faster progress with your Catalan, but help us keep...2025-06-0235 minLearn Catalan - The Lazy Linguist PodcastS2: E19 - Com era la teva rutina? Describing past routines using the Imperfect - Intermediate CatalanSend us a textIn this episode, we dive deeper into the imperfect tense by talking about what our school routines used to be like. You'll review common daily routine verbs, learn time expressions, and build longer sentences in context. Through storytelling, guided practice, and a short dialogue, you’ll get comfortable using the imperfect tense to describe past habits. Great for intermediate learners looking to make their Catalan more natural and fluid!The current group classes are going so well that I...2025-05-1939 minLearn Catalan - The Lazy Linguist PodcastS2: E18 - What’s in the Bag?! School & Office Vocab + Prepositions - Intermediate CatalanSend us a textIn this episode, we’re talking about school and office items and stationary in Catalan! Things like pens, notebooks, backpacks and more. You’ll also get some grammar practice with hi ha, prepositions, and the imperfect tense to describe how things used to be.Support the showGroup Lessons starting September 2025: Group ProgrammesBeginners Course: Catalan for Beginners CoursePatreon: The Lazy Linguist Buy us a coffee: Buy me a Coffee Instagram: @lazylinguistcatalan Facebook: The Lazy Linguist PodcastChristina offers private lessons - enqu...2025-05-0738 minLearn Catalan - The Lazy Linguist PodcastS2. E17 - L'Imperfet P2 - Plurals & Irregulars! - Intermediate CatalanSend us a textIn 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 verbs in this tense in Catalan!We hope it wasn't too confusing for you! The lesson notes/language summaries on Patreon might help you...2025-04-2040 minLearn Catalan - The Lazy Linguist PodcastS2: E16 - The Imperfect Tense - Com era la teva escola? - Intermediate CatalanSend us a textJoin 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 the Pod in general or anything else. We love getting to know our listeners!Support the showGroup Lessons...2025-04-0737 minLearn Catalan - The Lazy Linguist PodcastS2: E15 - QUIZ! - Review of Eps 11-14 - Intermediate CatalanSend us a textJoin 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 showGroup Lessons starting September 2025: Group ProgrammesBeginners Course: Catalan for Beginners CoursePatreon: The Lazy Linguist Buy us a coffee: Buy me a Coffee Instagram: @lazylinguistcatalan 2025-03-2447 minLearn Catalan - The Lazy Linguist PodcastS2. E14 - The Superlative - The Best & Worst hobbies! - Intermediate CatalanSend us a textHola! 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 different though so we practice them as well!If you enjoy the Podcast and haven't already, we'd really appreciate a quick rating or review - and make...2025-03-1034 minLearn Catalan - The Lazy Linguist PodcastS2. E13. El Perfet - Irregular Verbs & More Practice - Intermediate CatalanSend us a textHola! 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 past!We hope you enjoyed it and found it useful. If you do enjoy the Pod please don't forget to give a little rating or review...2025-02-2332 minLearn Catalan - The Lazy Linguist PodcastS2. E12. Another past tense! El perfet - The Perfect Tense - Intermediate CatalanSend us a textWelcome 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 perifrà stic 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 find it useful! Please rate, follow and share if you do :)Support the showGr...2025-02-1036 minLearn Catalan - The Lazy Linguist PodcastS2. E11. Mental Health - La Salut Mental - Intermediate CatalanSend us a textBenvinguts 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 etc, as well as some of the things you can do to look after your mental health. It's great for when you want to have those deeper chats in Catalan and not just always resort to...2025-01-2739 min