In an increasingly busy world it's become harder to find time to study languages. These days people are more interested in learning while on the go, and podcasts are the perfect tools for that. Finding the right one, however, isn't so easy. Neither is creating one. What makes a good language podcast? We spoke to the founders of two successful, but hugely contrasting shows, to find out.

Japanesepod101

It was back in 2005, the year that podcasts started to take off, when Peter Galante, a Ph.D. student studying economics at Tokyo's Hitotsubashi University, decided to launch Japanesepod101.