Another quick blog entry.
On the Music player of my 5800 there is an option called Podcasts i should call myself a stupid for not opening this since i bought the cell phone so its alomost two months now i missed it, no worries better late than never. Few days back i opened it accidentally and i was exposed to a world of Podcasts about various different topics. I started subscribing to the ones which i liked, i want to learn Hindi hence in the process of finding e-books, now i have decided to go through this way to start my learning, i could find only one podcasts related to Hindi language learning and found only one 'ispeakhindi' available on the Directories which was last updated some 1200 days back with only to two Audio podcasts.
After that i googled for some other sites which publish podcasts about Hindi language learning, there are plenty available and i found this one , i haven't listened to any of the lessons published there but soon i will, not only this there are surplus topics related to Music, Finance, Technology, Sports you name it, topics available from A to Z. So the next question is how do you listen to all this. Please read on
Pre-requisites: All you need is an application which can download podcasts and update the feeds, i got one inbuilt on my device, there are podcasting application for all platforms(Smartphone) download the one intended for your device. Next you need a GPRS/3G/Wi-fi connection to download the podcasts and listen to it, make sure you have flat rate data plan, i have upto 2Gb data downloads for a month from Airtel with a top-up of 98 which serves for the purpose very well, average size of a podcasts varies depending upon the length and the quality of it, so 2Gb is more than enough if you are even constantly downloading.
How to Subscribe: If you want to add a new podcats look for the rss feed on the website Like this one, type the address, the application prompts to enter the address when you want to add a new podcasts, update it and you are good to listen to the Audio, there are Video podcasts too.
There are some good things like this which you can make use of and when utilised in a constructive way learning things is a lot simpler. Podcasts are indeed a simple and effective way i found so far for learning.
Thanks for reading...............
