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Stories by students and classics
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Location: PÉCS
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Hello. I am a teacher of English at the University of Pecs, Hungary. I started podcasting in 2007. This show is a component...


by Jozsef Horvath
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June 05, 2013 07:11 AM PDT

Visiting professor Gabriel Loiacono from the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh speaks about his work in progress.

Take Off 81

May 21, 2013 10:34 AM PDT

Croatian student extraordinaire reads his story, "The Dream."

Take Off 80

April 08, 2013 10:37 AM PDT

Sounds and voices from the University of Pécs Roundtable Conference in Applied Linguistics.

Take Off 79

March 23, 2013 08:58 AM PDT

Some results of a study on originality in students' writing that I conducted with my colleague at the University of Zagreb. The full paper is available here: http://books.google.hu/books?id=VnR3DZsHG6UC

Take Off 78, the first in 2013!

April 22, 2012 06:08 AM PDT

Episode 77: Listen to a story written, performed and produced by Éliás Zoltán, a student at the University of Pécs, Hungary. Music composed by the author.

February 23, 2012 08:42 AM PST

Episode 75: Adán Reyes talks about his work as a chemist at the National Autonomous University of México, that special tool, the glovebox, and those amazing volcanoes, Popocatépetl and Iztaccihuatl.

Music credit: from the Mahahual Music podcast.

Please note that the first 20 episodes are available from me directly from now on as I had to delete them from Podomatic to make space for the new episodes. Send me email at jozsefhor@gmail.com if you need some of those episodes.

February 15, 2012 07:16 AM PST

Episode 74: Two students, Barna and Tibi, managers at the Power Plant in Pécs, discussed views about ebooks in a recent class with me. A segment from that session.

February 01, 2012 09:25 AM PST

Episode 73: Evi is an information assistant, available on iPhones and Android phones. I got the app a few days ago and tested what it can do. It? She? You decide.

January 26, 2012 08:56 AM PST

Episode 72: Six stories in this episode: five by high-school students who were among the visitors on our open day at the University of Pécs today, and one by Fülöp Eper Flóra, a second-year English major. The high-school authors: László Gábor, Decsi Liliána, Vörös László, Babos Tamás and Ferenczi Ágota.

December 31, 2011 08:59 AM PST

Episode 71: The last episode in 2011 features Anthony Krese, a.k.a. American Anthony, a teacher in Japan. Snippets from our Skype chat.

Anthony's website: www.americananthony.com

November 06, 2011 12:44 AM PDT

Episode 70: Seventy episodes already!

Listen to a chat with language educator and PhD student Thékes István, also known as Jerry Thékes.

Technical background info: episode recorded on the iPhone 4, partly mixed and edited with the GarageBand app, also on the iPhone. Look for more tweaks and programming innovations as a result of this app in the future.

Theme music by Kartali László. Acoustic guitar riffs by Horváth József

November 05, 2011 01:51 AM PDT

Episode 69: Part 2 of the interview with Katharine Whitcomb.

Kathy's website: http://www.katharinewhitcomb.com

This episode was first released a week ago but was then mysteriously gone for a day. Hope this time it will be okay.

October 06, 2011 06:42 AM PDT

Episode 68: Katharine Whitcomb is associate professor at Central Washington University. Currently she is guest professor at the University of Pécs. A poet and collaborative artist, she is also a great person to listen to. This episode is the first of a two-part series featuring her ideas and poetry.

Her website: http://www.katharinewhitcomb.com

Music credit: "Gone In" by Everyday Jones

Theme music composed and played by Kartali László

June 01, 2011 11:29 AM PDT

Episode 67: Fülöp Eper Flóra about her upcoming work experience in a Texas summer camp. Music credit: Blake Shelton's "Nobody But Me."

March 16, 2011 12:55 PM PDT

Episode 66: Hana Humpolíková is a student from Ostrava, the Czech Republic, currently on an Erasmus scholarship at the University of Pécs. The other day, we got together in my office.

January 09, 2011 02:18 AM PST

Episode 65: Rudolf Anna came back from Madrid to Pécs for a short visit last week. After a hot chocolate and coffee, we went to Széchenyi square to record an interview.

January 02, 2011 03:52 AM PST

Episode 64: You can listen to a sound story -- and not only that. You can write it, too! Send entries to jozsefhor@gmail.com.

October 28, 2010 11:15 AM PDT

Episode 63: Katarina Vesela, a colleague from Slovakia, speaks about her recently published book, Academic Writing, among others.

October 28, 2010 11:14 AM PDT

Episode 62: Horváth Bálint, Fekecs Adrienn and Szilas Péter, three good friends from the University of Pécs, are studying at A Coruna, Spain this semester. Last week they came to chat with me. This episode: soundbites fom our chat.

Please note that due to bandwidth limitations, some of my podcast episodes may not be available at the beginning of November. If you hear a Podomatic rep saying that my monthly bandwidth has expired, don't abandon Take Off: on November 4, my counter will be reset and all the episodes will be back on the air.

October 11, 2010 09:39 AM PDT

Second-year MA student Kovács Gabi tells us about her blog at http://kovgab.wordpress.com

August 29, 2010 01:07 AM PDT

First we talked, and then we danced -- at the farewell party at Seggau Castle, Austria. Find out about Sonia Valdiviezo's novel-in-progress.

August 06, 2010 12:55 AM PDT

I met Jonathan at this year's Graz University Summer School. Snippets from an interview we recorded on the last day.

June 26, 2010 09:10 AM PDT

My Croatian colleagues, Lovorka Zergollern-Miletic and Vladimir Legac, and I went to have beer in Pécs yesterday. Guess who turned on his iPhone.

Episode track: "Two Lessons to Learn" by Thalassa. More Thalassa music at http://www.ilike.com

June 15, 2010 04:49 AM PDT

An article by Bryan Nelson about the only animal known to be immortal, the turritopsis nutricula. See text at http://bit.ly/93JXXO

Episode track: "Mystique" by Marcin Borowski. Browse more Borowski music at http://www.ilike.com

June 01, 2010 11:48 AM PDT

Graduating student Szántó Gábor shares ideas about the subject of his MA thesis, Wikipedia.

March 10, 2010 08:06 AM PST

Episode celebrates 55th milestone with a classic grotesque article from The Onion.

Theme music by Kartali Lászó

February 22, 2010 08:46 AM PST

First episode of 2010 features a part of Nancy Franklin's New Yorker article about the Vancouver Olympics.

Theme music by Kartali László

October 28, 2009 08:21 AM PDT

Second-year student and two-time Blog Oscar Award winner Szvath Dóra narrates a passage from her short story, "Passengers." The full story is on her blog: http://senator888.blogspot.com

Theme music by Kartali László

October 17, 2009 02:42 AM PDT

An excerpt of a feature from the October 19, 2009 issue of The New Yorker.

Theme music by Kartali Lacek. Episode track: "Lions," by The Features.

June 04, 2009 09:13 AM PDT

"I’m not saying that it’s alright to be nervous all the time, but helping stressed-out people is always better than scolding them." This idea and more in Alexander's essay.

Theme tune by Kartali László. Music credit: Robyn Hitchcock and The Venus

May 17, 2009 12:53 AM PDT

Kartali Laci is the composer and musician of the new theme tune. Tune in to listen to that and to seven people from the first 49 episodes: Dani, Bernadett, Gergő, Steve, Lovorka, Anna, and Scott.

After this episode was published, Take Off really took off: it moved to 491st place overall. That's not bad with over 30,000 other podcasts trailing behind on Podomatic!

Thanks for listening!

March 28, 2009 03:52 AM PDT

Józsa Bernadett and Hudák Attila talk about two podcasts: Take Off and Tokyo Calling, the latter by my favorite podcaster, Scott Lockmann. Music credit: "Melt Down the Knives" by Sin Fang Bous.

March 18, 2009 06:46 AM PDT

Fulbright Professor Carol MacCurdy and I went to Paulus last week, and I asked her to talk about life and literature in the US. Snippets from the chat.

February 22, 2009 09:12 AM PST

Excerpt from a story by Steven Millhauser.

February 16, 2009 09:27 AM PST

Vasas Katalin's debut as a blog writer, plus Tomázy Dávid's and Ömböli Krisztián's stories.

January 30, 2009 09:08 AM PST

On Wednesday, Rudolf Anna and I gave a talk to high-school students. In the episode: sound bites from the event.

January 11, 2009 08:05 AM PST

Listen to an article by Sasha Frere-Jones published in The New Yorker on January 12.

January 09, 2009 06:06 AM PST

First-year student Tomázy Dávid talks about a story he will start writing soon.

December 31, 2008 08:25 AM PST

The last pages from Proulx's highly acclaimed novella.

December 14, 2008 12:56 AM PST

Seven students from my Oral Presentation Skills course share opinions and plans: Balázs, Anita, Kitti, Kinga, Anna, Judit, and Krisztián.

November 30, 2008 11:18 PM PST

First, some thoughts about meeting would-be freshmen last Saturday, and then a song by Cargo Cult. Photo: Zsélyi Eszter after our talk, with part of Kungl Zsófi's blog showing in the background.

November 18, 2008 11:34 AM PST

A nameday, an exhibition, a trip and a song: four students share their experiences on their blogs. Music credit: Michael Halaas, http://www.ilike.com

October 27, 2008 11:43 PM PDT

Three blogs, three stories, three students: Szvath Dóra, Balázs Éva and Gazdóf Lilla. Music credit: a song by Ellen Says No, a free MP3 download from http://www.ilike.com/artist/Ellen+Says+No

October 21, 2008 03:56 AM PDT

Kartali László, third-year student of Pécs, jazz musician, vocabulary master, and composer of the Take Off theme music, calls Amsterdam home this semester that he spends in Holland on an Erasmus scholarship. In this episode, we share a part of our Skype chat last weekend. Photo credit: Lacek's photo of the view form his apartment in downtown Amsterdam.

October 01, 2008 09:26 AM PDT

The site is up and running again! Enjoy these podcasts!

Listen to the first posts of Andrea, Dóra, Zsófi, Kornél, and Krisztián. I am planning more episodes featuring students' blogs this semester. If you would like to read these and other blog posts, go to http://take-o-f-f.blogspot.com and look for the list.

August 27, 2008 05:35 AM PDT
August 13, 2008 11:39 PM PDT

In just a little more than a day, I'll be there with the crowd watching and listening to REM at the Sziget, Budapest, Hungary. I hope to be back from that concert with a special REM Live edition of the podcast. We'll see. What's sure is that the most recent episode features "Find the River."
#rembudapest

July 22, 2008 02:29 AM PDT
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I'll post the next episode in early August, after I come home from the Kapolcs Magic Days festivities. Meantime, you can listen to one of my favorite student stories, which also appears in my collection, the JPU Corpus.

July 10, 2008 09:39 AM PDT

That's right: this week, the lyrics comes from that 60s musical, Hair. Enjoy!

July 01, 2008 11:54 PM PDT

How about shifting into sixth gear with this fantastic track from REM's latest album? Plus listen to my rendition of the lyrics. Enjoy! Also, check out Take Off after the REM concert on the Sziget on August 16. I will be there and share with you some of the highlights of the show!

#rembudapest

June 23, 2008 08:57 AM PDT

The first summer episode! Enjoy your vacation and this story, the lyrics of Coldplay's Viva La Vida.

June 04, 2008 10:39 PM PDT

Konkoly Kriszta, Horváth Bálint, and Szilas Péter, three English majors at the University of Pécs, talk about an exam and their summer plans.

May 19, 2008 12:35 PM PDT

Lovorka Zergollern - Miletic, a colleague from the University of Zagreb, and I gave a talk on coherence and originality in student writing at a Pécs conference last week. After the presentation, we went to have a glass of wine downtown -- together with a team of participants. It was there that I made this recording.

The song is by The Agape Rose. Find more great music by them and other bands at www.ilike.com.

May 02, 2008 11:43 AM PDT

Kosóczki Kata, Buda Réka and Fodor Balázs, three students from my Oral Presentation Skills II course, are talking about Forster's novel, A Passage to India, and another passage.

The song is "Sol naciente" by Cargo Cult. Go to http://www.ilike.com to listen to songs by them or other GarageBand musicians.

April 14, 2008 01:08 AM PDT

In the past three years, I have met Steve four times: at the annual Budapest Folk Dance Festivals. This past weekend I asked him to tell Take Off a little bit about his interest in things Hungarian and Transylvanian.

Here's the cover photo of his album Ten Years in Transylvania:

If you would like to see Steve's other photos, too, visit his site at

http://www.spinderartphoto.com/

March 30, 2008 06:52 AM PDT

A scene from the movie starring Sean Connery and Kevin Costner, plus a conversation with Rácz Krisztián.

The song is by the Mitchell Blues Band -- a free MP3 file from www.iLike.com

March 24, 2008 03:46 AM PDT

In this episode I read a passage about the prehistoric statues on Easter Island. Read the rest of the chapter and other sections in Routledge's book on Google Books: http://books.google.com/books?id=36yi7JgoBY8C&rview=1

March 17, 2008 12:39 PM PDT

Listen to Rudolf Anna's story from her blog at http://anchuk.blogspot.com

The singer featured in the episode is Hannah Ild.

March 06, 2008 12:42 PM PST

A talented writer, Gergo is a fourth-year student at the University of Pecs.

February 25, 2008 08:42 AM PST

This episode features Lugossy Reka and her stories.

February 16, 2008 08:21 AM PST

Another rerun of a segment from a Joe and Co. episode from last year, featuring Marianne's ideas about learning vocabulary.

The music for this episode is by Everyday Jones, What I'm Missing. Used under the Creative Commons license. You can hear more Everyday Jones songs at http://www.podsafeaudio.com.

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