iPod not just for music

Several podcasts are now running to help teach a foreign language. The Open Culture blog recently posted a list of podcasts to teach Arabic, Cantonese, Russian, Spanish, and more. Several of these sites use some mechanism such as daily news broacasts in simplified and slow format along with a transcript to follow along with what you hear allowing listeners to keep up with the news while learning a new language (see Le Journal en français facile for French).