{"id":299,"date":"2007-11-06T10:06:07","date_gmt":"2007-11-06T16:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bendreth.com\/?p=299"},"modified":"2007-11-06T10:06:07","modified_gmt":"2007-11-06T16:06:07","slug":"learning-a-language-with-an-ipod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/?p=299","title":{"rendered":"Learning a language with an iPod"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve recently bought an iPod Nano. I&#8217;ve owned a Shuffle for a couple of years now (I won it in a drawing at the 2005 Embedded Systems Conference in San Francisco), and I wanted one that had a display that allowed me to pick and choose, as well as identify what was playing if I didn&#8217;t recognize it.<\/p>\n<p>One reason was so that I could load some foreign-language lessons onto it &#8211; I ran across a magazine article some months ago extolling the benefits of such an approach. As a result, I&#8217;ve tracked down the following sites that have things I&#8217;ll be trying in future:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.japanesepod101.com\/\">Japanese Pod 101<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldwidelearn.com\/language-courses\/index.html\">World Wide Learn<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oculture.com\/2006\/10\/foreign_languag.html\">Foreign-language podcasts at Open Culture<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve recently bought an iPod Nano. I&#8217;ve owned a Shuffle for a couple of years now (I won it in a drawing at the 2005 Embedded Systems Conference in San [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-its-all-about-me"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}