FOWL Radio 6: Learning Languages

Hey everyone This is our 6th episode! This week we talk about the languages we are proficient in and the ones we're still grappling with. We had no show notes for this episode! It was all spontaneous. We do a play a song by Rob Costlow, from the Podsafe Music Network. It's called L.A. / Passing By. Tell us what you think, we love your feedback.

The file: FOWL Radio 6

Length: 47:20 mins

Size: 22.5 mb

P.S. This is the japanese podcast Chris talks about.

FOWL Radio 5: Humo(u)r

FOWL Radio 5: Humo(u)r
This week we talk about humour, how it's universal and how it's different.
Stereotypes, French humour (how the French didn't have a word for humour till the 1930s) and how we love British humour and the TV series, Black Adder. Also, a few jokes, a poem and a new word coined.

Here are the links we promised:
Blonde Joke (courtesy ahajokes.com)
Thrammed (the new word of the week. coined by Karn, a listener and defined by Simran)
Indian Jokes - Santa and Banta
French Humour (economist.com)
Poem by Willheim Busch (Captain's Log)
Ship Of Fools (Religious Humour.. includes the GodPod)

Music courtesy DJ Ma Faiza!


The File: Fowl Radio 5

Size: 18.1 MBs

Length: 38:05 mins

FOWL Radio 4: Switzerland

Here we go again! In this show, we're unfortunately back to two producers. Good luck to Torsten for his thesis, which has to take priority over a podcast, of course.

For some factual information about Switzerland, check the CIA World Factsbook. But maybe, you're into more credible sources ...

The Xenophobe's Guide to the Swiss is a very entertaining guide (including the map above) to the Swiss. If you want to see some amusing stereotyping the Swiss in the year 50 BCE, go to Asterix in Switzerland. You've been warned, though: the geography is seriously warped! Also, we don't usually throw people in lakes any more if they loose their piece of bread in the fondue, although they tend to have to sing a song or do something similarly embarrassing.

So, without further ado, here's the show!

The file: FOWL Radio 4
Duration: 40:08 minutes
Size: 36.8 MB

FOWL Radio episode 3: Torsten and the Rechtschreibreform

Show notes:

Torsten Kathke joins us as a third show-host and we discuss:
What the $§%&# is a Rechtschreibreform? We take a trip to the history of German spelling. Plus: Mark Twain makes an appearance and complains about the awful German language.

PS: This is our first episode with three people so please bear with a few more hiccups.
And here's a picture of Chris's Grandfather clock.

The file: FOWLRadio3.mp3
Length: 52:23 mins
Size: 48.1 MB