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FOWL Returns: We're back!

Jul 8th, 2006

Hey! Thanks you 26 people for staying subscribed. We're back and now we've got two new Mac laptops, a MacBook and a MacBook Pro. In this episode we just talk about OS X and other time pass. Basically, we're back. We're back. Did I mention, we'r

A GOT Intro

Apr 18th, 2006

Check out this intro I made for GOT: Getting Off Topic with CastBlaster. That program is quite good, but I imagine GarageBand beats it anyday. I neeeed Mac!- Simran

GOT 1: Web 2.0 Discussion

Apr 14th, 2006

Before we recorded FOWL 8, we had a small discussion on Web 2.0 and if it deserves its name or if it's just a buzzword. This is the first in a series of non-language discussions. Without telling Chris, I've gone ahead and named it "GOT" or "Get

FOWL Radio 8: April Fool's Edition

Apr 1st, 2006

Chris: Here is the new show - enjoy! Notes below, courtesy of Simran.This week we stray away from language and decide, that it's totally cool, that we do so - better than scrapping FOWL anyway. We just want to chat about stuff other than langua

FOWL Radio 7: Dialects

Mar 15th, 2006

Hey listeners! Sorry for the 1 week delay, I'm all well again and we recorded FOWL 7 last night. Here are the show notes:Dialects and diglossia.Debate in Switzerland as trigger / PISA. PISA Polizei Podcast (German).New word(s?) of the week: Ner

Sendepause

Mar 8th, 2006

Waiting for the new show of FOWL Radio? Well, that's very flattering!Unfortunately, Simran had to take a week's sick leave during which he promised not to use his computer. Since FOWL Radio is not a monologue station and nobody volunteered to s

FOWL Radio 6: Learning Languages

Feb 28th, 2006

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 th

FOWL Radio 5: Humo(u)r

Feb 19th, 2006

FOWL Radio 5: Humo(u)rThis 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 Add

FOWL Radio 4: Switzerland

Feb 12th, 2006

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.

FOWL Radio episode 3: Torsten and the Rechtschreibreform

Feb 4th, 2006

Show notes:Torsten Kathke joins us as a third show-host and we discuss:What the $Â§%&# 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

BBC Hindi.com

Jan 29th, 2006

Hi everyone,If you would like to see a whole lot of the Hindi script we mentioned in our 2nd podcast, check out the BBC's Hindi language news site: www.bbc.co.uk/hindiTell us what you think.-Simran

FOWL Radio 2: Hindi, India & Donnie Davito!

Jan 29th, 2006

The file: FOWL Radio 2Length: 40:52 minsSize: 37.7 MBWe made it to our second episode! Hopefully we get the snyc problems right this time around.You gotta give us some credit though, eh, this is Switzerland to India - we're continents apart!In

We're in the iTunes Music Store!

Jan 22nd, 2006

Yes! We're in the iTunes Music Store, the biggest (& coolest) podcast directory on the internet!Tell us what you think through the review option (or the comment link here on the site).Here's a screenshot: (click to enlarge)Also, check the sideb

Oops... some synchronization problems

Jan 20th, 2006

Uh-oh, just heard the mp3, we've got some sync problems!We'll do our next episode over iChat... directly into GarageBand.Sorry for the mix-up, it sounds like we're constantly interrupting each other. We're actually not. We were pretty much in s

Our first episode of FOWL Radio!

Jan 20th, 2006

This is our first episode of FOWL Radio, our podcast about language and how to have fun with it.FOWL, once more, is an acronym for "Fun Of & With Language".Our podcast is and going to be about Hindi, German and English - in English.Chris, from

Euro English

Jan 20th, 2006

Well, the first episode of the podcast has been produced & will be coming up shortly - suspense is becoming unbearable!! :)While it's uploading, here's the text about Euro English we've been talking about. That way, you can actually see how Eng

Welcome to FOWL Radio

Jan 18th, 2006

This is going to be the blog/site of FOWL Radio, a podcast about language and how we use it.FOWL is an acronym for "fun of & with language".Check back here once in a while, to see how we're progressing.--Chris & Simran

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