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Living & working in Spain - Particularly the Costa Brava and Catalonia

Audio and video podcasting on what it is like to live and work in the region of Catalonia. Podcasts about events in the area and interviews with the residents of the Costa Brava and Catalonia.

BravaChat Podcast Number Five
Wednesday, November 26, 2008

I met Chris this year in Mas Nou near Barcelona at the Podcamp Barcelona event. The Podcamp was all about new media, like blogging, audio and video podcasting, Screen casts, mashups  and a sprinkling of politicians doing what politicians do (mostly talking rubbish). I presented a podcasting for beginners session and a couple of people turned up and listened even.

Chris tells us about what it is like living in Spain in a couple of different places and has lots to say about some tech type things here in Spain. He also talks about language learning from 2 perspectives, both the teaching English angle and also regards learning Catalan and Spanish.

You can click on the picture to the left to get the podcast. It is an enhanced podcast with clickable links. More links below for Chris also. You can contact Chris at Cataspanglish on Wordpress and also at Podcamp Barcelona, he even has a web site about Spanish cooking called Spanish Sauce.

Check out Chris's views on TV in Spain and the politics of internet and Telefonica. Have you wondered why we only get low speed broadband here in Spain?

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Chris's blog post about living in Spain

His students blog about the programming for kids

and his students' screencast page for office training

At podcamp Barcelona were people like Don McAllister of Screencasts online. Pim pam pum and their mash ups using Flickr and other sources.

There was Mark Pendleton from Coffee Break Spanish, You might like to subscribe to that to help you learn Spanish easily with a podcast.

You don't have to have an iPod to listen to a Podcast. A Podcast is downloadable media that you can also view in your web browser, basically an internet radio show. Or an internet TV show if it is a video podcast like BravaChat Podcast 04 with the Catalan Human castles


The Sponsor for the show is SkypeOut - A service from Skype that allows you to call ordinary phone very cheaply from your computer. I have used it and it does work very well.

 



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A week off from Blogging and podcasting
Thursday, November 13, 2008

I left last thursday to visit family in Birmingham and then brought my mother back here to Spain to make her first visit to my place here. A busy time coming back home on Saturday and then running from place to place with a 70 year old mother. Ok not so much running as strolling but tie consuming just the same.

We made the visit to Girona and saw the usual tourist spot in the city. The river houses, the old town walls, old churches and places like  the Arab baths and Jewish quarter. Even found an Indian restaurant in the centre.

Tomorrow it is nose back to the grindstone and podcasting. Looking forward to gettn some stuff done.



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