Podcast language resources
It’s always important to be able to speak a little local language when you are on holiday or a business trip, and we’ve already featured a Spanish audio language download center in the Travel Niche blog, but multimedia learning resources for Indian, Chinese, Japanese and Arabic languages aren’t so easy to find on the web.
There are language books and websites where you can read about the basic of these languages before you start your holiday, but in my experience a book won’t help much
because the of the difficulties of correct pronounciation.
The Guardian Online newspaper has compiled a series of 10 minute podcasts (in mp3 format) where you can download and practice some of the basics such as “yes and no”, “please and thank you” and of course the all important “I don’t speak this language!”.
The audio language resources, sponsored by Air Emirates, are available from the links below:
Be sure to download and practice them before you book your vacation or trip!