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#298 Steve and Alex - About World Leaders (Part 2)
10.01.2012, 19:40 | vor 31 Tagen  
Steve and Alex talk about various world leaders, including Vaclav Havel, Kim Jong Il, Martin Luther King, Dr. and more. They discuss how these leaders came into power, why they became prominent and what they are known for. Difficulty: AdvancedCategory: News and Politics Duration:  10:32Click here to listen to About World Leaders (Part 2). Click here to see the full transcript of this podcast. For an excerpt from the text, click below:   Alex: Yeah. Well, even then. I mean even to people who know a lot about it North Korea is so illusive. It’s so difficult to find any substantive information to really learn more about it. I had the privilege of talking to a lot of professors who study Korean history and Korean politics and have spent a good portion of their life on this and even to them there’s a lot of uncertainty when it comes to really having insight into [..]

#297 Steve and Alex - About World Leaders (Part 1)
31.12.2011, 00:40 | vor 41 Tagen  
Steve and Alex talk about various world leaders, including Vaclav Havel, Kim Jong Il, Martin Luther King, Dr. and more. They discuss how these leaders came into power, why they became prominent and what they are known for. Difficulty: AdvancedCategory: News and Politics Duration:  10:19Click here to listen to About World Leaders (Part 1). Click here to see the full transcript of this podcast. For an excerpt from the text, click below: Alex: But it's so interesting to see. I mean, in a way, when you compare the two it's almost like it's a different species. The thoughts that go through their heads are so differing. In a way, you can compare say Hitler to Martin Luther King, Jr. where they stand for things in the complete opposite spectrum I mean.Steve: Exactly. What I think is unusual with people like Martin Luther King, which is another good example, or Havel or [..]

Beginner #48 - Eating Out, Part 14
30.12.2011, 20:33 | vor 41 Tagen  
A simple dialogue which takes place in a restaurant. Part 14 of 14 episodes. It is a good idea to listen many times to each part. This story is available in other languages at LingQ. You can use these versions to provide a direct translation. Difficulty: BeginnerCategory: 1. Beginner IDuration:  0:54 Click here to see the full transcript of this podcast. Click here to listen to Eating Out, Part 14. Permalink | Leave a comment  »

Beginner #47 - Eating Out, Part 13
30.12.2011, 20:31 | vor 41 Tagen  
A simple dialogue which takes place in a restaurant. Part 13 of 14 episodes. It is a good idea to listen many times to each part. This story is available in other languages at LingQ. You can use these versions to provide a direct translation. Difficulty: BeginnerCategory: 1. Beginner IDuration:  1:02 Click here to see the full transcript of this podcast. Click here to listen to Eating Out, Part 13. Permalink | Leave a comment  »

Beginner #46 - Eating Out, Part 12
30.12.2011, 20:29 | vor 41 Tagen  
A simple dialogue which takes place in a restaurant. Part 12 of 14 episodes. It is a good idea to listen many times to each part. This story is available in other languages at LingQ. You can use these versions to provide a direct translation. Difficulty: BeginnerCategory: 1. Beginner IDuration:  1:13 Click here to see the full transcript of this podcast. Click here to listen to Eating Out, Part 12. Permalink | Leave a comment  »

Beginner #45 - Eating Out, Part 11
30.12.2011, 20:28 | vor 41 Tagen  
A simple dialogue which takes place in a restaurant. Part 11 of 14 episodes. It is a good idea to listen many times to each part. This story is available in other languages at LingQ. You can use these versions to provide a direct translation. Difficulty: BeginnerCategory: 1. Beginner IDuration:  0:44 Click here to see the full transcript of this podcast. Click here to listen to Eating Out, Part 11. Permalink | Leave a comment  »

#296 Steve and Alex - Motivation (Part 2)
22.10.2011, 00:02 | vor 111 Tagen  
Steve and Alex discuss the importance of motivation in learning a language, and how forcing people to learn a language often breeds poor results. Difficulty: IntermediateCategory: Language  Duration:  11:02Click here to listen to Motivation (Part 2). Click here to see the full transcript of this podcast. For an excerpt from the text, click below: Steve: It’s just that I have put in that much effort into learning these other languages. Other people, for whatever reasons, didn’t have the time to do it, but the fact of speaking 10 versus two versus five, to me it’s got nothing to do with it. It’s just that that’s where I have chosen to spend my time.  Alex: Yeah, exactly. Steve: It’s like a musician. If the musician doesn’t spend any time learning to play the trumpet he won’t know how to play the trumpet, but if he takes it upon himself to learn to play the trumpet he’ll be able to learn it. ... Permalink | Leave a comment  »

#295 Steve and Alex - Motivation (Part 1)
04.10.2011, 01:37 | vor 129 Tagen  
Steve and Alex discuss the importance of motivation in learning a language, and how forcing people to learn a language often breeds poor results. Difficulty: IntermediateCategory: Language  Duration:  13:31Click here to listen to Motivation (Part 1). Click here to see the full transcript of this podcast. For an excerpt from the text, click below:   Steve:    Good. Yeah, it's time to have another podcast. You know, one subject that comes up and we're both, obviously, interested in languages and learning languages and many of the people who listen to this podcast, by definition, they're interested in learning languages, whether it be English or some other language. There was a discussion on our forum about what are your motivations. Actually, one of our LingQ members from China said what is your motivation for learning Chinese and then there was a discussion about [..]

#294 Steve and Alex - Forgetting Languages
13.09.2011, 20:03 | vor 150 Tagen  
Steve and Alex talk about their experiences related to forgetting languages, and Alex shares about his new goal to learn French again. Difficulty: IntermediateCategory: Language  Duration:  15:19Click here to listen to Forgetting Languages. Click here to see the full transcript of this podcast. For an excerpt from the text, click below:   Steve: I’ve mentioned this on my blog on a couple of occasions and on every occasion people have come back and said yeah. I thought I was the only one. That’s true. I mean it may not be true for everyone, but it’s true for a lot of people. True for a lot of people, so I would not worry. If you set your Korean aside and worked on Chinese or French or whatever for six months, you would go back to Korean and you’d do better. Alex: Yeah. I think that’s an interesting thing, too, to take it from another perspective, is if you’ve been [..]

#293 Steve and Alex - Starting from Scratch (Part 2)
24.08.2011, 21:12 | vor 169 Tagen  
Steve and Alex talk about good ways to start learning a language from scratch and share their experiences. Difficulty: IntermediateCategory: Language  Duration:  12:10Click here to listen to Starting from Scratch (Part 2). Click here to see the full transcript of this podcast. For an excerpt from the text, click below:   Alex: I think that’s the thing, too, of having the confidence. Like you said before, you read a text in Czech you know three words. You listen to it five more times and then you read it again and you know seven words. Steve: Right.  Alex: I think a lot of people get very discouraged at that, but I think it takes the know how to understand every little step counts and every little bit that you do is going to help you in the long run. ... Permalink | Leave a comment  »

#292 Steve and Alex - Starting from Scratch (Part 1)
16.08.2011, 00:03 | vor 178 Tagen  
Steve and Alex talk about good ways to start learning a language from scratch and share their experiences. Difficulty: IntermediateCategory: Language  Duration:  11:05Click here to listen to Starting from Scratch (Part 1). Click here to see the full transcript of this podcast. For an excerpt from the text, click below:   Steve: I know that if I keep washing these words over me, listening to them, reading them, reviewing them, that they will eventually stick because that has happened to me in all these other languages, so I’m confident. Like I’m climbing up this mountain, I know I’m going to reach the peak. Alex: Yeah. Steve: Someone who hasn’t done this before is gee, I wonder how far it is. Am I going to make it? I’ll never get anywhere. I’ll get stuck. I’ll get lost. So they have all these kinds of apprehensions, which I don’t have.  But, yeah, with Portuguese [..]

#291 Steve and Alex - Language Learning Proverbs
19.07.2011, 01:17 | vor 206 Tagen  
Steve and Alex continue their discussion on how various different proverbs can be applied to language learning. Difficulty: IntermediateCategory: Language  Duration:  11:58Click here to listen to Language Learning Proverbs. Click here to see the full transcript of this podcast. For an excerpt from the text, click below:   Alex: Yeah. Cool. Here’s another one, “Strike while the iron is hot.” Speaking from personal experience, there are moments where I feel super motivated to do something and there are moments where I feel completely unmotivated to do it. But the idea of “strike while the iron is hot”, I think this can be applied in the sense of if you’re motivated to do something, at that moment you start. You do it. You make your best effort to make that a habit so that then when maybe your motivation is staring to kind of dwindle that you still have this as a habit. [..]

#290 Steve and Alex - Language Learning Plateau
09.07.2011, 00:46 | vor 216 Tagen  
Steve and Alex discuss what it means to experience a plateau in language learning and offer some tips in how to overcome this feeling. Difficulty: IntermediateCategory: Language  Duration:  12:18Click here to listen to Language Learning Plateau. Click here to see the full transcript of this podcast. For an excerpt from the text, click below:   Steve:    But, I mean, if I worried about it for every one of the languages that I speak I would really be tongue tied. I wouldn't speak them at all.Alex:    Yeah.Steve:    It's only by speaking them that we really improve in speaking. Obviously, we can improve our comprehension by listening and reading, by increasing our vocabulary. But, ultimately, speaking is a specific skill so at some point you've got to speak a lot. ... Permalink | Leave a comment  »

#289 Steve and Alex - Steve's Trip to Russia (Part 2)
30.06.2011, 00:39 | vor 225 Tagen  
Steve talks about his recent trip to Russia, including the places he went, the people he met and the experience of traveling to Russia after learning Russian for four years. Difficulty: IntermediateCategory: Travel  Duration:  9:14Click here to listen to Steve's Trip to Russia (Part 2). Click here to see the full transcript of this podcast. For an excerpt from the text, click below: Steve: So, yeah. I mean, I feel that my Russian took a big step forward and my motivation is greater than it ever was. But, it was nice to go there and to be able to operate, like I felt comfortable. Other than the odd surly clerk at the train station, most people were very friendly and I could communicate and to them it’s only natural that I speak Russian.  Alex: Right. Steve: They’re not expecting to speak English. ... Permalink | Leave a comment  »

#288 Steve and Alex - Steve's Trip to Russia (Part 1)
23.06.2011, 01:50 | vor 232 Tagen  
Steve talks about his recent trip to Russia, including the places he went, the people he met and the experience of traveling to Russia after learning Russian for four years. Difficulty: IntermediateCategory: Travel  Duration:  9:21Click here to listen to Steve's Trip to Russia (Part 1). Click here to see the full transcript of this podcast. For an excerpt from the text, click below:   Steve: Initially, I was in Berlin for a day because we have some business dealings there and then I was in Latvia for a day and a half. I’ve been to both places before. Alex: Okay. Steve: And then, finally, having spent the last four years, you know, an hour a day most days learning Russian, I finally got a chance to travel to Russia. For me it was really exciting. So I arrived in St. Petersburg Airport, walked through the airport smooth as can be. I had images of all kinds of bureaucratic [..]

#287 Steve and Alex - Coarse Language
09.06.2011, 00:37 | vor 246 Tagen  
Steve and Alex talk about coarse language, why some people like to use it and what it represents to different people. Difficulty: IntermediateCategory: Everyday Life  Duration:  10:10Click here to listen to Forces of Nature. Click here to see the full transcript of this podcast. For an excerpt from the text, click below:   Alex: Yeah and that’s an interesting thing, too, it is cultural. It’s not just the language, too, because when my sister was in the U.K. she said people much more actively use swear words and it’s much more common place. Whereas, in Canada and the United States people often hold their tongue and are more reserved in that regard.  Steve: I mean, yeah. And I think that sometimes people from a different culture don’t realize the effect it has. Like we had a visitor from Sweden on business and he felt that what we call the “F-bomb” in English was [..]

#286 Steve and Alex - Forces of Nature
01.06.2011, 22:17 | vor 253 Tagen  
Steve and Alex talk about various different natural disasters that happened in Canada and around the world. They also discuss what it means to do something useful in life. Difficulty: IntermediateCategory: Environment  Duration:  10:45Click here to listen to Forces of Nature. Click here to see the full transcript of this podcast. For an excerpt from the text, click below:   Alex:    Yeah. I remember when I used to live in California, actually, up until four years ago. It was southern California and it’s really dry in the summers and we had a lot of forest fires. I remember, particularly, I think 2006 or 2007, there was massive forest fires all across the state. Actually, nearby my house there was a forest fire going on at one point and when I was sitting in my room I could smell the fires burning. I remember driving through a few weeks later on a back country road and [..]

#285 Steve and Alex - Russia
25.05.2011, 22:02 | vor 260 Tagen  
Steve and Alex talk about Steve's first trip to the Soviet Union, his experience learning Russian and his planned trip to Russia. Difficulty: IntermediateCategory: Travel  Duration:  11:36Click here to listen to Russia. Click here to see the full transcript of this podcast. For an excerpt from the text, click below:   Steve: My passport, sorry, yeah. So then I had to get a new Canadian passport. I'm leaving next Tuesday and I'm hoping that I get my passport back from Ottawa from the Russian Embassy via this company that I had to pay a fortune here too, so a bit of a kafuffle. Alex: Yes. Steve: However, I mean St. Petersburg, Leningrad is going to be phenomenal. It's a phenomenal city. I've read Dostoevsky and Anna Karenina where they go back and forth between Moscow and St. Petersburg and stuff, so to walk around there and to take that in and to meet people. And then I'm taking [..]

#284 Steve and Alex - Language and Travel (Part 2)
18.05.2011, 20:31 | vor 268 Tagen  
Steve and Alex discuss language learning and travel, including Alex's recent trip to Korea, Steve's recent trip to Europe and what it means to learn a foreign language in your own country. Difficulty: IntermediateCategory: Travel  Duration:  8:24Click here to listen to Language and Travel (Part 2). Click here to see the full transcript of this podcast. For an excerpt from the text, click below:   Steve: Yeah, which gets back to your earlier point. There has to be a genuine social desire to connect with people. You can’t use people as free tutors. Alex: Yeah and I think that was my experience in that I didn’t want to meet these people so that I could improve my Korean, but I genuinely wanted to hang out with them, spend time with them, be friends with them. Steve: Right, right. Alex: Right. And so it made it less of a burden of, you know, my Korean sucks and more like hey, I [..]

#283 Steve and Alex - Language and Travel (Part 1)
10.05.2011, 21:01 | vor 276 Tagen  
Steve and Alex discuss language learning and travel, including Alex's recent trip to Korea, Steve's recent trip to Europe and what it means to learn a foreign language in your own country. Difficulty: IntermediateCategory: Travel  Duration:  10:22Click here to listen to Language and Travel (Part 1). Click here to see the full transcript of this podcast. For an excerpt from the text, click below:   Steve: Do you feel that if you were with a group of Koreans and they're talking about something that you can sort of jump in there and hold your own? Alex: It totally depends on the topic, but much more now so than say six months ago or a year ago. And, yeah, I still…like, for instance, I went to a conference, an entrepreneurship conference, which was just like three days long. Everything was in Korean, everyone was talking in Korean and I was very quiet because I was primarily [..]

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