{"id":385,"date":"2007-05-16T20:12:31","date_gmt":"2007-05-16T19:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/16\/radio-ga-ga\/"},"modified":"2007-05-16T20:12:31","modified_gmt":"2007-05-16T19:12:31","slug":"radio-ga-ga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=385","title":{"rendered":"Radio ga ga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I find listening to radio programmes in the languages I&#8217;m studying is a good way to tune my ears to the languages, and to learn new vocabulary and grammar. With some languages I only have a vague idea what the radio people are talking about, if I really concentrate. With others, particularly Welsh, I&#8217;ve got to the stage where I can understand the majority of what I hear and actually learn new and interesting things from the programmes I listen to. It&#8217;s taken many years of regular listening to get to this stage. My Irish and Scottish Gaelic haven&#8217;t quite got there yet, but I haven&#8217;t been listening to them for as long.<\/p>\n<p>If the language you&#8217;re studying isn&#8217;t spoken where you live, radio listening provides a sort of virtual immersion. It doesn&#8217;t give you opportunities to actually speak and interact with native speakers though, unless you join in radio phone-ins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I find listening to radio programmes in the languages I&#8217;m studying is a good way to tune my ears to the languages, and to learn new vocabulary and grammar. With some languages I only have a vague idea what the radio people are talking about, if I really concentrate. With others, particularly Welsh, I&#8217;ve got [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language","category-language-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}