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FOWL Returns: We're back!

fowl@dreyer.ch (Christian & Simran) — Sat, 8 Jul 2006 13:08:00 GMT

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're back? Oh right, we're back.

FOWL Returns

Jingle: Noite De Carnaval by Code

A GOT Intro

fowl@dreyer.ch (Christian & Simran) — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 17:16:00 GMT

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

fowl@dreyer.ch (Christian & Simran) — Fri, 14 Apr 2006 15:07:00 GMT

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 "Getting Off Topic". Come get it.

Tell us what you think! We want feedback, we neeeeeed feedback!

email us at: fowl@dreyer.ch
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fly (or walk if you want to take in the sights from a Froschperspektive) to schönenbuch, switzerland or poona, india and go running around on the streets screaming "I'm looking for Chris/Simran from FOWL Radio! Show yourself you podcaster!"

FOWL Radio 8: April Fool's Edition

fowl@dreyer.ch (Christian & Simran) — Sat, 1 Apr 2006 22:52:00 GMT

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 language sometimes and don't want to set up yet another podcast... (any objections? they're welcome too btw)

The song this week is by a jazz, Swiss band that Chris (knows personally? and) is going to see live later this month. The name of the song is Sugartree and is performed by the Oliver Friedli trio. It's available on their album Three Miles Off.

In this episode we talk about blogs, April Fool's Day and more.

Send us feedback! We want feedback, we neeeeeed feedback!

email us at: fowl@dreyer.ch
leave a comment on this blog
record some audio feedback and email it to us
fly (or walk if you want to take in the sights from a Froschperspektive) to schönenbuch, switzerland or poona, india and go running around on the streets screaming "I'm looking for Chris/Simran from FOWL Radio! Show yourself you podcaster!"

FOWL Radio 7: Dialects

fowl@dreyer.ch (Christian & Simran) — Wed, 15 Mar 2006 07:36:00 GMT

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: Nerd Valhalla.

The Queen's English, a.k.a. Received Pronounciation (thanks Joel!).

Next week's topic is slang and two friends of mine might come on the show (Bhavna and Clive).
Songs:

Das Isch Mi Tag by G Punkt from their album Genau Das.
In a Long Time by 46bliss.

The file: FOWL Radio 7

Size: 46.8mb

Length: 50:58mins

Bitrate: 128kbps

Sendepause

fowl@dreyer.ch (Christian & Simran) — Tue, 7 Mar 2006 23:38:00 GMT

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 substitute for him, so we'll just take a break until he returns. Why don't you join me in wishing him to get well soon?!!

FOWL Radio 6: Learning Languages

fowl@dreyer.ch (Christian & Simran) — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 07:02:00 GMT

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@dreyer.ch (Christian & Simran) — Sun, 19 Feb 2006 13:09:00 GMT

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

fowl@dreyer.ch (Christian & Simran) — Sun, 12 Feb 2006 21:47:00 GMT

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

fowl@dreyer.ch (Christian & Simran) — Sat, 4 Feb 2006 17:52:00 GMT

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.

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

BBC Hindi.com

fowl@dreyer.ch (Christian & Simran) — Sun, 29 Jan 2006 08:51:00 GMT

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/hindi
Tell us what you think.

-Simran

FOWL Radio 2: Hindi, India & Donnie Davito!

fowl@dreyer.ch (Christian & Simran) — Sat, 28 Jan 2006 20:42:00 GMT

The file: FOWL Radio 2
Length: 40:52 mins
Size: 37.7 MB

We 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 this episode we cover India, Hindi and more stuff about and India.

We also play a cool song by "Donnie Davito" - not Danny! It's called Das Leben des Philosphen
and yes, it's in German too. Here's a link to Starfrosch, the music network/podcast from where we got the song.

Keep listening in and come back to FOWL around with us!

-Chris
-Simran

oh and they're 28 states, 6 union territories and 1 national capital territory in India and here's a link to the India wiki on Wikipedia.

Update: here's the word "Hindi" in the Hindi script:
Also, here's the cover of this "Learn Hindi Script" book. Got it off Amazon. (click to enlarge)

We're in the iTunes Music Store!

fowl@dreyer.ch (Christian & Simran) — Sun, 22 Jan 2006 14:42:00 GMT

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 sidebar for an iTunes subscription button.

Oops... some synchronization problems

fowl@dreyer.ch (Christian & Simran) — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 04:16:00 GMT

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 sync while chatting, but it turns out our tracks weren't. Really sorry.

(teething problems)

P.S. Should be ok now!

Our first episode of FOWL Radio!

fowl@dreyer.ch (Christian & Simran) — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 03:08:00 GMT

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 Switzerland is interested in Indian culture, Hindi and podcasting.
Simran is a German language student from India interested in Swiss-German and more.
We both hope that we can learn a bit or two from each other and perhaps entertain a bunch of people along the way too.

FOWL Radio 1: Introductions and Euro-English

Our show notes:

In this episode we talk a little about our selves and where we're from and also discuss our plans and ideas for this podcast.
Simran reads out a joke Christian got in a forward about the possibility of there being a Euro-English.

- Theme music by .22.

Size: 23.3 MB
Length: 25:24 mins

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Hope you like it. Do come back next week or subscribe to our podcast feed.

Euro English

fowl@dreyer.ch (Christian & Simran) — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 00:28:00 GMT

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 English does morph into German:

The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was the other possibility.

As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5- year phase-in plan that would become known as "Euro-English".

In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c".
Sertainly, this will make
the sivil servants jump with joy.

The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of "k". This
should klear up konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter.

There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond
year when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will
make words like fotograf 20% shorter.

In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling
kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are
possible.

Governments will enkourage the removal of double
letters which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling.

Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent
"e" in the languag is disgrasful and it should go away.

By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th"
with "z" and "w" with "v".

During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from
vords kontaining "ou" and after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl
riten styl.

Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil
find it ezi tu understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil
finali kum tru.

Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German
like zey vunted in ze forst plas.

If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl.

And here is source of Sommer, Sonne, Meer!

Enjoy, and let us know what you think!

Welcome to FOWL Radio

fowl@dreyer.ch (Christian & Simran) — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 17:51:00 GMT

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