{"id":846,"date":"2018-11-01T13:26:50","date_gmt":"2018-11-01T20:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/?p=846"},"modified":"2018-11-01T13:26:50","modified_gmt":"2018-11-01T20:26:50","slug":"einschlafen-podcast-a-german-podcast-to-help-you-fall-asleep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/2018\/11\/01\/einschlafen-podcast-a-german-podcast-to-help-you-fall-asleep\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cEinschlafen Podcast\u201d \u2013 A German Podcast to Help You Fall Asleep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Subliminal learning, the idea that you can learn a new language just by listening to an audiobook while sleeping, is probably a myth at best. However, there is <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bilingualkidspot.com\/2018\/07\/16\/can-you-learn-a-language-in-your-sleep\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">some evidence<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> that you can gain, or at least reinforce, new vocabulary by listening to something in a foreign language while asleep. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Even if subliminal learning isn\u2019t effective, that doesn\u2019t mean that listening to podcasts in bed isn\u2019t a good idea! My recommendation for this week is the \u201c<strong>Einschlafen Podcast<\/strong>,\u201d which is available on Spotify, on its <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/einschlafen-podcast.de\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">website<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, on <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/einschlafenpodcast\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">YouTube<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and on iTunes. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/einschlafen-podcast.de\/\">Einschlafen Podcast<\/a>\u201d (German for \u201cFalling Asleep\u201d) is an excellent German podcast, featuring the relaxing voice of Toby Baier. Each week, Toby starts out by talking about the news, his recent life, and any other random facts, and then eventually starts reading excerpts from books in a calming, slow voice. The books range from <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Alice im Wunderland<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to Kant\u2019s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kritik der reinen Vernunft<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The point of \u201cEinschlafen Podcast\u201d is to fall asleep. For those trying to learn German, this is a great way to increase your daily input, simply by falling asleep. Although \u201cpassive learning\u201d is still fairly controversial, I feel like I&#8217;ve benefitted from listening to a little extra German every day, especially in listening comprehension.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Subliminal learning, the idea that you can learn a new language just by listening to an audiobook while sleeping, is probably a myth at best. However, there is some evidence that you can gain, or at least reinforce, new vocabulary by listening to something in a foreign language while asleep. Even if subliminal learning isn\u2019t &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/2018\/11\/01\/einschlafen-podcast-a-german-podcast-to-help-you-fall-asleep\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;\u201cEinschlafen Podcast\u201d \u2013 A German Podcast to Help You Fall Asleep&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1721,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,95,88],"tags":[117,104,121],"class_list":["post-846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-german","category-intermediate","category-podcasts","tag-german","tag-recommendation","tag-podcasts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1721"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=846"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":854,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846\/revisions\/854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}