Learning Languages in Society with Gabi.
Learning Languages in society with Gabi is your podcasting and blogging go-to resource especially designed for advanced language learners like you so that you can feel better integrated in a new linguistic and social environment with the help of sociolinguistics.
By listening to this podcast you will:
1. Find useful tips to keep up the high level you have achieved in your favorite languages and brush up on your language skills.
2. Learn how to decode the linguistic and cultural intricacies of our societies so you can deepen your knowledge of the culture whose language you are studying and become part of that new society.
3. Learn about what the science of linguistics is and its different constituents.
4. Learn interesting facts about foreign language acquisition.
5. Listen to interesting interviews with multilingual guests and learn about their work.
6. Learn about the benefits of mindfulness meditation to learning and using a new language in public.
7. Learn about the medical benefits to learn new languages.
8. Learn about the migrations and history of people whose languages have had an influence on the local languages we speak today and realize you are also making history.
Don't forget to check the transcripts available of the podcast and the blog
https://learninglanguagesinsocietywithgabi.com/podcast-transcripts/
https://learninglanguagesinsocietywithgabi.com/blog
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 21 minutes
- Episodes
- 55
- Years Active
- 2023 - 2025
#015 - Mindfulness and psychedelics.
#015 - In this episode Gabi speaks about the main differences between the two and why he is in favor of using meditation as a form to free the mind instead.
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#014 -mindfulness and the self in social situations when speaking a foreign language.
#014 - Gabi explores in this episode the how mindfulness can help us become less self-concerned when speaking a foreign language in a social situation.
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#013 - Meditation as the antidote to warfare.
#013 - In this episode Gabi talks about the benefits of meditation not only to learn new languages but to stop warfare from happening.
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#012 - Three fascinating short stories in Italian. Can you guess the answers?
#012 - In this episode Gabi reads out three short stories in Italian and then asks true or false questions. Can you guess the answers!?
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#011 - Does learning a foreign language prevent dementia in old age!??
#011 - Gabi explains in this episode the fascinating advantages to learn a foreign language in childhood or adolescence.
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#010 - Listening and comprehension exercise in Italian!
#010 - In this episode Gabi prepares a listening and comprehension exercise. He reads out four texts in Italian and then asks a few questions after reading each text.
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#009 - Easiest way to learn the Italian adjectives!
#009 - In this episode Gabi introduces the Italian adjective and gives a few examples and some exceptions too. He reads a short story for students to learn it by heart. And in the second part he give…
#008 - Has any book of literature made you change your point of view about a language you’re learning?
#008 - Gabi refers his listeners to his latest blog article called Literature, emotions and language...a reckless marriage? He formulates the following questions:
Does it make sense to live a life c…
#007 - Can mindfulness meditation help you learn a language? Say what!?
#007 - In this short episode, Gabi explores a few ideas associated with concentration and mindfulness meditation. He explains this practice is all too relevant in order to learn a new skill. Don't mi…
#006 - Entrevista en català i en occità amb el Gabrièu Pelisson.
#006 - In this episode Gabi interviews Gabrièu Pelisson in Catalan while Gabrièu answers in Occitan. They speak about Gabrièu’s YouTube channel for the promotion of the Occitan language and culture. …
#005 - Check out the cardinal numbers in Italian!
#005 - In this episode Gabi explores the logic of the cardinal numbers in Italian and reads out a short dialogue intended to be memorized. In the second section, he analyzes some of the divergences b…
#004 - Interview with Laura Couch Polyglot
#004 - Gabi interviews in this episode Laura from couch Polyglot. The conversation touches on various topics including growing up multilingual, studying and working in international environments and …
#003 - Discover the fascinating Italian articles!
#003 - In this episode Gabi unravels the secrets of the determinate, indeterminate and partitive articles and regular verbs in Italian! And in the last half he delves into the different views regardi…
#002 - Quick way to hack Italian phonetics!
#002 - Gabi is on a mission in this episode to teach the essentials of Italian phonetics and give a small taste of the spelling and phonetic rules. In the second section, Gabi takes a further look at…
#001 - The number one trick to learn a foreign language.
#001 - In this first episode Gabi reveals what he thinks is the key to start speaking a new language right from the onset of the learning process. Additionally, he introduces Avram Noam Chomsky and g…