On the subject (kind of) anyone know of any good podcasts for learning French? I had the Duolingo app, but I've done it to death now.
Spotify is less than useless for french & swedish podcasts. I rather not download one app for BBC, one for France Inter, one for NPR and one for Swedish Public Radio — and the web interfaces are really frustrating.
There are a lot of apps to choose from. I use Castbox, it has a free tier with some ads but is pretty good to use. You can stream/download as you wish. Podcast Addict, Pocketcasts and Stitcher are all popular too, there's not much difference between them on the free tier in my experience.
Quote from: Wil on October 31, 2019, 03:43:02 pmThere are a lot of apps to choose from. I use Castbox, it has a free tier with some ads but is pretty good to use. You can stream/download as you wish. Podcast Addict, Pocketcasts and Stitcher are all popular too, there's not much difference between them on the free tier in my experience.I use the free version of Podcast Addict but I'm not that impressed with it and have been meaning to find an alternative.The app regularly stops playing and/or shuts down for no reason (on a pixel 3 with nothing else running so shouldn't be a lack of memory or processing power). It does this occasionally of its own accord but also does it very frequently if you press the skip 30 seconds button. Something that I often use to skip adverts when listening to commercial radio shows.
A nice twist at the end of The Missing Cryptoqueen involving Shark. Well I never. All those trips to Uganda must have eaten into his Oak training time. ] I noticed that one as well
Dark Matter. A ghost story set at a 1930s Arctic research station. 10 x 15min episodes. On BBC Sounds.Bleakness, pervading sense of dread: a perfect accompaniment for our times.
Quote from: Will Hunt on December 21, 2019, 07:59:26 amDark Matter. A ghost story set at a 1930s Arctic research station. 10 x 15min episodes. On BBC Sounds.Bleakness, pervading sense of dread: a perfect accompaniment for our times.I enjoyed that too. Atmospheric. I actually shared the link with a friend a few days ago. He told me he listened to it up to the point where he reached Plantation car park for a night session. There was nobody around and mist was shrouding the trees. He decided not to continue listening on the walk in. [\quote] Yikes! I was quite trepidatious pressing play on the final episode.If you liked Tunnel 29 you should definitely get onto The Ratline.
Nice conversation between Yuval Noah Harari & Max Tegmark about big picture things:https://soundcloud.com/futureoflife/on-consciousness-morality-effective-altruism-myth-with-yuval-noah-harari-max-tegmarkDon't let intro put you off (quite likely if you have an aversion to US accents), conversation starts at 03:10