Learn Spanish with Coffee Break Spanish

Radio Lingua Network News: 5 September 2008

mark@coffeebreakspanish.com (Radio Lingua Network) — Sat, 6 Sep 2008 03:30:00 GMT

The latest news from Radio Lingua including details of Coffee Break Spanish arrangements, new podcasts launched this autumn and the Radio Lingua video contest in which you can win an iPod.

Lesson 76 - Coffee Break Spanish

mark@coffeebreakspanish.com (Radio Lingua Network) — Fri, 5 Sep 2008 06:00:00 GMT

In this weekâs episode, we look at how to form the present continuous tense by listening to some examples in a dialogue between Maria-Jose and Andrew.

Lesson 75 - Coffee Break Spanish

mark@coffeebreakspanish.com (Radio Lingua Network) — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 21:52:00 GMT

In lesson 75 you will learn how to give commands in Spanish through a conversation between Andrew and Maria-Jose.

Lesson 74 - Coffee Break Spanish

mark@coffeebreakspanish.com (Radio Lingua Network) — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 06:00:00 GMT

In Lesson 74, Maria-JosÃ is ordering some food and we will be hearing the conditional tense used in the dialogue. We will then go on to look at the conditional and how it is formed.

Lesson 73 - Coffee Break Spanish

mark@coffeebreakspanish.com (Radio Lingua Network) — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 06:00:00 GMT

In this week's lesson, you will be able to practice your listening skills once again by listening to Andrew and Maria-JosÃ as they talk about birthdays. We will also take a look at the future tense and how it is formed, using regular and irregular examples.

Lesson 72 - Coffee Break Spanish

mark@coffeebreakspanish.com (Radio Lingua Network) — Fri, 8 Aug 2008 06:00:00 GMT

In episode 72, youâll hear a second conversation between 'Andrew' (Mark) and 'Maria-JosÃ' (Lorraine) and Kara will test her comprehension and listening skills along with our listeners. Mark will also help to break down the conversation so Kara and our listeners understand more about the tenses and phrases used.

Lesson 71 - Coffee Break Spanish

mark@coffeebreakspanish.com (Radio Lingua Network) — Fri, 1 Aug 2008 12:00:00 GMT

Episode 71 is the first of several episodes which aim to improve your listening skills. You'll hear a conversation between 'Andrew' (Mark) and 'MarÃa-JosÃ' (our new team-member Lorraine) and Kara will test her comprehension skills along with our listeners.

Lesson 70 - Coffee Break Spanish

mark@coffeebreakspanish.com (Radio Lingua Network) — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 06:00:00 GMT

In this weekâs lesson, we deal with a situation which many Spanish-learners are scared of... a phone conversation in Spanish! By the end of the lesson, we guarantee youâll be able to handle a Spanish phone-call with confidence!

Lesson 69 - Coffee Break Spanish

mark@coffeebreakspanish.com (Radio Lingua Network) — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 07:00:00 GMT

In Lesson 69, we discuss hiring a car in a Spanish-speaking country and look at some questions and phrases that may arise as part of this transaction. Although we hope you never find yourself in this situation, you'll also know exactly what to say if your car breaks down!

Lesson 68 - Coffee Break Spanish

mark@coffeebreakspanish.com (Radio Lingua Network) — Fri, 4 Jul 2008 12:00:00 GMT

In this week's episode, we continue our 'travel' theme, this time considering traveling by taxi. We help you construct phrases by using material you already know and introducing new vocabulary and contexts.

Lesson 67 - Coffee Break Spanish

mark@coffeebreakspanish.com (Radio Lingua Network) — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 07:00:00 GMT

In this weekâs lesson, we look at the topic of travel using public transport by introducing some new vocabulary and by using some vocabulary and constructions that we have already come across. In this way youâll learn how to construct phrases and questions âon-the-spotâ which will better equip you to handle real situations in a Spanish-speaking country.

Lesson 66 - Coffee Break Spanish (repost)

mark@coffeebreakspanish.com (Radio Lingua Network) — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 21:59:00 GMT

In lesson 66 we'll be finishing off our discussions of the perfect tense and making sure that all our listeners understand exactly when to use the perfect and preterite.

Lesson 65 - Coffee Break Spanish (repost)

mark@coffeebreakspanish.com (Radio Lingua Network) — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 10:16:00 GMT

This is a repost of lesson 65 which corrects a small error in the original file. In this week's episode we take another look at the perfect tense and consider some common verbs which have irregular past participles.

Lesson 64 - Coffee Break Spanish

mark@coffeebreakspanish.com (Radio Lingua Network) — Mon, 2 Jun 2008 10:00:00 GMT

In Lesson 64, you'll learn how to construct the perfect tense, eg. I have done something.

Lesson 63 - Coffee Break Spanish

mark@coffeebreakspanish.com (Radio Lingua Network) — Fri, 23 May 2008 06:00:00 GMT

In Lesson 63, you'll learn some more uses of 'por.' You can try the quiz to test your knowledge of 'por' and 'para!'

Lesson 62 - Coffee Break Spanish

mark@coffeebreakspanish.com (Radio Lingua Network) — Fri, 16 May 2008 06:00:00 GMT

In Lesson 62, you'll learn more uses of 'por' and 'para' in the context of a birthday party! You'll even learn how to sing 'Happy Birthday!'

Lesson 61 - Coffee Break Spanish

mark@coffeebreakspanish.com (Radio Lingua Network) — Fri, 9 May 2008 07:00:00 GMT

Lesson 61 will introduce you to the different ways of saying 'for' in Spanish: 'por' and 'para.' Find out how to use these in the context of a birthday...

Season Pass for unit 5 and 6 now available

mark@coffeebreakspanish.com (Radio Lingua Network) — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 22:00:00 GMT

The Basic and VIP packs for unit 6 (lessons 51-60) are now available and can be purchased in our store at http://www.radiolingua.com/store. The basic pack, priced at Â12.00 (Pounds Sterling), features the lesson guides for lesson 51-60. The VIP pack, priced at Â20.00, includes the lesson guides, the enhanced podcast for each lesson, and 3 hours of bonus listening materials. If you wish to purchase VIP units 5 and 6 together, you can purchase Bundle G (units 5-6) for a total cost of Â34.00, saving 15% on the total price. Take our challenge and get 35% off your order this weekend... until 23:59 on Monday 28 April 2008 (GMT). Based on your what youâve learned in unit 6, translate the phrase âshe was dancingâ? (7 letters, 1 word in Spanish) and use your answer as a coupon code at checkout in our store and get a further 35% off the total cost of your purchase. This coupon code may not be used in conjunction with any other offers. Access the special offer page on our website at http://www.radiolingua.com/store/specialoffer.

Lesson 60 - Coffee Break Spanish

mark@coffeebreakspanish.com (Radio Lingua Network) — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 19:33:00 GMT

Lesson 60 will put your knowledge of verbs in the present, preterite and imperfect to the test. We'll be reviewing much of what has been covered in this unit to make sure you're ready for unit 7, coming soon!

Lesson 59 - Coffee Break Spanish

mark@coffeebreakspanish.com (Radio Lingua Network) — Mon, 7 Apr 2008 17:00:00 GMT

In long-awaited lesson 59 you will learn a bit more about the imperfect tense, both with -er and -ir verbs and with irregular verbs.

Lesson 58 - Coffee Break Spanish

mark@coffeebreakspanish.com (Radio Lingua Network) — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 12:29:00 GMT

In lesson 58 you'll learn about the imperfect tense.

Lesson 57 - Coffee Break Spanish

mark@coffeebreakspanish.com (Radio Lingua Network) — Sat, 8 Mar 2008 10:26:00 GMT

Lesson 57 provides a personality quiz to check your understanding of the preterite tense.

Lesson 55 - Free Gift - Bonus Review Programme

mark@coffeebreakspanish.com (Radio Lingua Network) — Wed, 5 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The bonus podcast for each episode of Coffee Break Spanish features additional materials to help you build your confidence in spoken Spanish. This bonus episode for lesson 55 will give listeners a flavour of what they can expect from the bonus materials. For more information, visit http://www.radiolingua.com/bonus

Lesson 56 - Coffee Break Spanish

mark@coffeebreakspanish.com (Radio Lingua Network) — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 07:00:00 GMT

In lesson 56 we look at more verbs in the preterite tense and consider indirect object pronouns in more detail.

Lesson 55 - Coffee Break Spanish

mark@coffeebreakspanish.com (Radio Lingua Network) — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 06:10:00 GMT

In lesson 55 of Coffee Break Spanish we look at some irregular verbs in the preterite tense, and ask Kara how she celebrated St Valentine's day!

Lesson 54 - Coffee Break Spanish

mark@coffeebreakspanish.com (Radio Lingua Network) — Sat, 9 Feb 2008 12:21:00 GMT

In lesson 54 of Coffee Break Spanish we continue to talk about the preterite tense, this time looking at verbs which end in -er and -ir and their conjugation in the preterite.

Lesson 53 - Coffee Break Spanish

mark@coffeebreakspanish.com (Radio Lingua Network) — Sat, 2 Feb 2008 08:40:00 GMT

Lesson 53 introduces a past tense: in this lesson we'll learn to use the preterite tense to talk about events which happened in the past.

Lesson 52 - Coffee Break Spanish

mark@coffeebreakspanish.com (Radio Lingua Network) — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 19:14:00 GMT

Lesson 52 completes our study of the present tense by looking at -er and -ir verbs, and gives listeners the chance to review -ar regular verbs, radical changing verbs and some reflexive verbs too.

Lesson 51 - Coffee Break Spanish

mark@coffeebreakspanish.com (Radio Lingua Network) — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 09:00:00 GMT

Lesson 51 looks at talking about the immediate future within the context of New Year Resolutions.

Radio Lingua Network News: 8 January 2008

mark@coffeebreakspanish.com (Radio Lingua Network) — Mon, 7 Jan 2008 01:10:00 GMT

One Minute Languages Courses are now available as premium podcasts with lesson guides and enhanced podcasts.

Radio Lingua Network News: 24 December 2007

mark@coffeebreakspanish.com (Radio Lingua Network) — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 09:33:00 GMT

In this edition: Radio Lingua Store sale, details about One Minute Irish, plans for 2008 and exciting news from iTunes Best of 2007 lists.

Lesson 50 - Coffee Break Spanish

mark@coffeebreakspanish.com (Radio Lingua Network) — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 17:00:00 GMT

Lesson 50 puts your language skills to the test with a personality quiz.

Lesson 49 - Coffee Break Spanish

mark@coffeebreakspanish.com (Radio Lingua Network) — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 13:30:00 GMT

Lesson 49 continues to look at adjectives in the context of describing people.

Lesson 48 - Coffee Break Spanish

mark@coffeebreakspanish.com (Radio Lingua Network) — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 07:41:00 GMT

In lesson 48 we're discussing adjectives, and in particular how adjectives agree with the nouns they qualify.

Lesson 47 - Coffee Break Spanish

mark@coffeebreakspanish.com (Radio Lingua Network) — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 04:46:00 GMT

In lesson 47 we'll be looking at radical-changing verbs. These are verbs which have spelling changes in parts 1, 2, 3 and 6. In particular we'll discuss querer, pensar, poder and volver.

Radio Lingua Network News: 25 November 2007

mark@coffeebreakspanish.com (Radio Lingua Network) — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 22:26:00 GMT

Bonsoir, Guten Abend, Buenas tardes, Buona sera! This is Mark from the Radio Lingua Network and I'm here to bring you some of the latest news about our language-learning materials. Since our last news podcast there have been quite a number of developments here at Radio Lingua. So much is happening we've decided to streamline our news a little and in addition to our news podcast which is released every month, we're now producing an email newsletter. If you'd like to sign up to the newsletter, visit www.radiolingua.com/mailinglist and add your details. In addition to keeping up to date with developments you'll also receive exclusive discount codes for our store. At the beginning of this month the whole team was down in London at the Language Show. We thoroughly enjoyed the three-day event and were delighted to meet many of our listeners who had come along especially to say 'hello'. Some of our listeners even volunteered to have their photos taken, so visit our website and click on our new Photo Gallery to see these. Our iPod competition was won by Hannah Bond from Staffordshire. Hannah wins an iPod nano preloaded with our entire library of podcasts. Congratulations to Hannah. This week, Kara and I were in Cardiff to collect a European Award for Languages in recognition of the success of Coffee Break Spanish. The European Award for Languages is a Europe-wide initiative supported by the European Commission which recognises innovative, effective and replicable approaches to language learning. The event was held at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, and the award was presented by Isabella Moore, CEO of CILT, the National Centre for Languages. You can watch the video podcast we filmed during the day over on our YouTube Channel, that's at www.youtube.com/radiolingua Finally in tonight's news podcast I'm bringing you news of a new development for Radio Lingua: we're launching a brand new podcast tomorrow - that's Monday 27 November - which will teach you basic Polish in short weekly programmes. And when I say 'short' I mean short! Here's Ania to tell you more about 'One Minute Polish'. And that's it for this edition of Radio Lingua News. We'll be back soon with details of our Holiday sale in the store. In the meantime, thanks for listening!

Lesson 46 - Coffee Break Spanish

mark@coffeebreakspanish.com (Radio Lingua Network) — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 17:50:00 GMT

In lesson 46 - ser and estar, the two verbs in Spanish which mean 'to be'.

European Award for Languages - Video Podcast

mark@coffeebreakspanish.com (Radio Lingua Network) — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 02:57:00 GMT

Coffee Break Spanish was awarded a European Award for Languages today in Cardiff at a ceremony at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff. Watch Mark and Kara receive their award in this video podcast.

Lesson 45 - Coffee Break Spanish

mark@coffeebreakspanish.com (Radio Lingua Network) — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 23:00:00 GMT

In lesson 45 we'll be continuing our discussion about making arrangements and looking at more uses of the verbs ir and dar.

Lesson 44 - Coffee Break Spanish

mark@coffeebreakspanish.com (Radio Lingua Network) — Mon, 5 Nov 2007 23:04:00 GMT

In lesson 44 we'll be looking at some irregular verbs with a view to making arrangements to meet up with your Spanish-speaking friends. In particular we'll be covering the verbs cenar, ir and hacer.

Lesson 43 - Coffee Break Spanish

mark@coffeebreakspanish.com (Radio Lingua Network) — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 21:05:00 GMT

In lesson 43 you'll be continuing to talk about daily routine and we'll introduce the concept of reflexive verbs. By the end of the lesson you'll be able to say at what time you wake up, get up, get dressed, and when you go to bed too!

Happy Birthday, Coffee Break Spanish

mark@coffeebreakspanish.com (Radio Lingua Network) — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 22:44:00 GMT

Feliz CumpleaÃos to Coffee Break Spanish - we launched the podcast exactly one year ago today and I'd like to take this opportunity to thank our listeners from all around the world for listening to the show and helping us to develop Coffee Break Spanish over the last year. The past twelve months have been amazing - I worked out today that Coffee Break Spanish has had 9.6 million downloads in the past year - that's the equivalent of 18 people downloading a show every minute of every day! We've been top of most of the international education charts on iTunes and we've spent quite a bit of the year in the top 20 overall podcasts in the US. We've also recently won a European Award for Languages, ÂasÃ que estamos muy contentos! We're continuing to bring you new content and lesson 43 will be published next Monday. We're also producing Coffee Break French now and we're going to be launching new podcasts in the coming months, adding to our range of levels and languages. We'd really like to thank you all for spending part of your day listening to the show and learning with us. Whether you're new to the podcast or if you've been here from day 1, thank you - muchÃsimas gracias a todos. Don't forget that you can join the birthday celebrations on our discussion board. ÂMuchas gracias y hasta pronto! Mark

Lesson 42 - Coffee Break Spanish

mark@coffeebreakspanish.com (Radio Lingua Network) — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 12:26:00 GMT

In lesson 42 you'll be learning more about present tense verbs, this time in the context of talking about your daily routine. You'll also learn about time and by the end of the lesson you'll be able to say at what time you have breakfast, leave the house, get to work, have lunch, etc.

Lesson 41 - Coffee Break Spanish

mark@coffeebreakspanish.com (Radio Lingua Network) — Mon, 8 Oct 2007 21:00:00 GMT

We're back! Unit 5 begins with lesson 41 in which we're introducing the concept of conjugating verbs. We'll be asking the question "what do you do at the weekend" and practising some answers.

Radio Lingua Network News: 8 October 2007

mark@coffeebreakspanish.com (Radio Lingua Network) — Mon, 8 Oct 2007 09:06:00 GMT

Bonjour, Guten Morgen, Buenos dÃas, Buongiorno! This is Mark from the Radio Lingua Network and I'm here to bring you some of the latest news about our language-learning materials. Today sees the launch of unit five of Coffee Break Spanish. In this unit, and indeed in this second 'level' of Coffee Break Spanish we're going to be getting into the language in a much deeper way. This will hopefully allow listeners to create the language more, to say what you want to say, rather than sticking to the phrases of previous lessons. Of course we've been teaching you all along how to change words to 'make the phrase your own', but we're going to be introducing some new concepts in this unit which will put you in control of the language you're learning. Lesson 41 introduces the concept of conjugating verbs. It all sounds a bit complicated, but we'll be taking things nice and easy as usual! You can subscribe to the programme for free at www.coffeebreakspanish.com. Since our last edition of the Radio Lingua News podcast, we've launched Coffee Break French. I was in Paris with our French team and along with my cohost Anna we released the first show from the Eiffel Tower. We also shot some video footage for subsequent lessons in Paris, and did some filming for a new project we'll be telling you about soon. We've been overwhelmed with the reaction to CBF: within a few days the podcast was the #1 UK Education podcast on iTunes - even knocking CBS off the top spot! In just over a week we've had around 50,000 downloads and the feedback is great so far. In a couple of weeks' time we'll be introducing the premium version of the programme, and you can find out more on www.coffeebreakfrench.com. I mentioned in our last news programme that we're reworking the store and the purchasing options for all our podcasts. We're still working on this and some other events over the past two weeks have delayed this a little. We're still hoping to introduce the new version of the store in a couple of weeks, so do make sure you're checking the Radio Lingua site regularly. Our problems of the last couple of weeks have included spam attacks on our CBS forum. We had been using a hosted forum since the early days of CBS, and this was possibly the reason for the problems. We decided this week to relaunch the forum as a generic Radio Lingua forum on our own servers, giving us more control over spam filtering. It also means that there's now somewhere for all our learners, so whether you're listening to CBS, CBF, MDPG, MDPI or any of our future podcasts and languages, there's somewhere for you to go and practise your language skills. Most importantly, the forum is a place where you can share your learning with other learners and help each other out. Unfortunately the new forum setup does mean that users will need to sign up again to the forum. It's a very quick process so please don't let that put you off. We look forward to seeing you over on the forum where you can practise your language skills and join the RL community. To access the forum, visit www.radiolingua.com and click on "Discussion Forum" in the menu. And finally, if anyone is in the London area at the beginning of November we're going to be at the Language Show at Olympia from Friday 2nd until Sunday 4th November. This is the UK's biggest event for language learners and teachers and you can get free tickets from the Language Show website at www.thelanguageshow.co.uk. We'll have a booth at the stand and we'll be showing off some of our new products and services. It would be great to meet some of our listeners, so come along and say "hola", "salut", "hallo" or "ciao" to us at stand 42. There will be more details about exactly what we're going to be showing off at the Language Show in our next news programme! And that's it for this edition of Radio Lingua News. Thanks for listening!

Lesson 40 - Coffee Break Spanish

mark@coffeebreakspanish.com (Radio Lingua Network) — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 19:00:00 GMT

In lesson 40 you'll be learning about languages in Spain through a dialogue between Mark and Alfonso.

Radio Lingua Network News: 18 Sep 2007

mark@coffeebreakspanish.com (Radio Lingua Network) — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 07:13:00 GMT

This is Mark from the Radio Lingua Network and I'm here to bring you some of the latest news about our language-learning materials. It's been a while since we released a CBS news podcast, and there's just so much happening just now we thought it was time to add this news podcast to all our feeds to bring you the latest information. This news programme will be added to all our podcast feeds to make sure everyone hears about what's happening, regardless of which language you're learning with us. There's also another reason why we wanted to release the news podcast today, but more about that in just a moment! First up today is the news that Coffee Break Spanish has won a European Award for Languages. The award recognises "creative ways to improve the quality of language teaching, motivate students and make the best of available resources". It's a Europe-wide initiative supported by the European Commission. The UK co-ordinator of the initiative is CILT, the National Centre for Languages. In total 15 initiatives were recognised involving language-learners of all ages. According to the judges, "the success of Coffee Break Spanish across the world shows that podcasting can promote language awareness and competence regardless of geographical location". Kara and I will be at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff on 20 November to accept the award. We'd like to take this opportunity to thank everyone for their support of Coffee Break Spanish, and we're looking forward to the new season beginning in a few weeks. All the Coffee Break Spanish news can be found at www.coffeebreakspanish.com Final preparations are underway for our launch of Coffee Break French next week. The French team is heading out to Paris this weekend in preparation for the launch. The Coffee Break French feed is already live and you can subscribe to it in iTunes or via the website. Prior to the launch we've been releasing promo shows about Coffee Break French and there will be another one of these later this week explaining what the course will involve. Coffee Break French goes live at 18h00 on Wednesday 26th September when we'll launch with a video introduction from Paris. While in Paris we'll also be working on something else, but at this stage we'll have to keep that top secret! More information in the coming months! We're going to be making some changes with the Coffee Break Spanish premium service. Within the next couple of weeks we're going to be introducing a new way of accessing the premium materials, rather than using the subscription method. Current subscriptions will remain in place, and it will still be possible to sign up for 3 month subscriptions, but the new store which is currently in development will allow listeners to purchase whole units for one-off costs. We'll be able to accept payment by credit card rather than Paypal only, so hopefully this will be good news for many of you. The same system will be used for our other podcasts. Now for a quick roundup of where we are with our podcasts. CBS episode 40 is about to be released and features a discussion about languages and language-learning in Spain. There's even some Catalan thrown in in this week's show. We'll be taking a couple of weeks off with CBS while we launch CBF, but we'll be back with unit 5 in early October. MDPG is about to finish. We're going to be releasing the final materials in this series in the next few days. Our plans are to remove all the content of MDPG and MDPI from the feeds in November and then start the courses again with some updated extra materials. Many listeners have been asking us about higher level Italian and German courses. We'll be introducing a new German course in the winter and we're currently planning more Italian content for early 2008. We'll take this opportunity to mention that we're also developing short courses in other languages including Polish and Norwegian. These will be made available over the coming months and you'll hear more about them in future news podcasts. And finally... if any Scottish educators are heading to the Scottish Learning Festival this week then do come along to the Apple stand where I'm going to be demonstrating podcasting along with Kara. The Scottish Learning Festival is a major event in the educational calendar in the UK welcoming tens of thousands of educationalists from across Europe. Find out more at www.ltscotland.org.uk/slf. You can also subscribe to the SLF Connected Live podcast in iTunes. And that's it for this edition of Radio Lingua News. We'll be back in a couple of weeks after the launch of CBF. In the meantime, thanks for listening.

Lesson 39 - Coffee Break Spanish

mark@coffeebreakspanish.com (Radio Lingua Network) — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 16:00:00 GMT

In lesson 39 Mark chats with Bea, a Spanish student, about learning English.

Lesson 38 - Coffee Break Spanish

mark@coffeebreakspanish.com (Radio Lingua Network) — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 16:24:00 GMT

In lesson 38 of Coffee Break Spanish Kara isn't feeling too good. Mark and Kara go to a pharmacy and try to get some help.

Lesson 37 - Coffee Break Spanish

mark@coffeebreakspanish.com (Radio Lingua Network) — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 09:11:00 GMT

In lesson 37 of Coffee Break Spanish Mark is in the hotel reception talking to the receptionist about how to find the supermarket which is open on a Sunday.

Lesson 36 - Coffee Break Spanish

mark@coffeebreakspanish.com (Radio Lingua Network) — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 15:16:00 GMT

In lesson 36 of Coffee Break Spanish it's time to hit the shops. Mark buys postcards and stamps while Kara takes her mum to the shoe shop. In addition to the two dialogues in this week's lesson, we'll be taking a closer look at using reflexive verbs in the infinitive.

Lesson 36 - Temporary Version - Coffee Break Spanish

mark@coffeebreakspanish.com (Radio Lingua Network) — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 22:48:00 GMT

As explained in the podcast, we've had a major software crash tonight and I lost the entire edit of lesson 36. Rather than leave listeners with no update, I've put together a quick podcast featuring just the dialogue from this week's lesson. An updated version featuring an additional dialogue will be available very soon.

Lesson 35 - Coffee Break Spanish

mark@coffeebreakspanish.com (Radio Lingua Network) — Mon, 6 Aug 2007 20:00:00 GMT

In lesson 35 of Coffee Break Spanish we're off to the tourist information office in Santiago de la Ribera to find out a bit more about what there is to do in the town. In addition to the conversation we'll be looking at the construction "me gusta" and learning a bit more about it.

Cafe Cortado - Flyer

mark@coffeebreakspanish.com (Radio Lingua Network) — Sun, 5 Aug 2007 09:48:00 GMT

Just a reminder that the Cafe Cortado will now only be available on its own feed at www.thecafecortado.com. Episode 2 is now available.

Lesson 34 - Coffee Break Spanish

mark@coffeebreakspanish.com (Radio Lingua Network) — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 05:57:00 GMT

In lesson 34 of Coffee Break Spanish it's time for breakfast on the terrace of the hotel. Mark and Kara make conversation with another guest who is also having breakfast, and they order their breakfast from the waiter. In this week's show we'll be looking in particular at verbs in the formal, plural form (ustedes).

Episode 001 - The Cafe Cortado

mark@coffeebreakspanish.com (Radio Lingua Network) — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 20:00:00 GMT

In this episode of the CafÃ Cortado we're going to be listening to a question from Drew. Drew has question about directions. Listeners to Coffee Break Spanish should note that this is the only episode which will appear in the CBS feed. All future episodes will be on the Cafe Cortado feed. Check the website for more details.

Lesson 33 - Coffee Break Spanish

mark@coffeebreakspanish.com (Radio Lingua Network) — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 06:46:00 GMT

In lesson 33 we've just arrived at the hotel reception on our visit to Spain. In this lesson Kara takes on the role of "Jane Johnson" as she checks in, only to discover that there seems to be a problem with the booking.