News Time Spanish – 23 December 2010

In our final episode of this season of News Time Spanish our stories include:

  • The cost of Christmas in Spain and the famous pre-Christmas lottery draws
  • A housing crisis in Argentina
  • New smoking laws in Spain
  • Cuba creates its own Wikipedia
  • Electric cars for hire in Paris

Use the player below to listen to the episode. You can also subscribe in iTunes to get all future shows delivered automatically as soon as they become available. The entire season of News Time Spanish is available in a premium format which provides lesson notes, vocabulary and exercises for each episode, and for iPod Touch, iPhone and iPad users there is an ePub version compatible with the iBooks application. If you would like to benefit further from these materials, you can purchase a season pass for this season of News Time Spanish: 10 weekly episodes beginning 20 October 2010. More information can be found on the News Time Spanish product page.

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Members’ links

[amprotect=126]Premium members of News Time Spanish Season 2 can access the full transcript of the episode and key vocabulary using the links below. Our lesson guide also contains exercises and we provide answers and suggested translations in the Answer Key. If you found the normal speed version of the audio content a bit too fast, try listening to the slow version which has been electronically reduced to 80% speed.

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Season 2 – Lesson 29 – Coffee Break Spanish

In the long-awaited 29th lesson of Coffee Break Spanish we look at tips to help you pronounce double -r- in Spanish and we build more language in the context of hiring cars in a Spanish-speaking country. Please note that lesson 29 of Season 2 was originally known as lesson 229 of Coffee Break Spanish. We have renumbered the lessons of each season as lessons 1-40 to make things more simple for our listeners.

Season 3 – Lesson 09 – Coffee Break French

This week we’re returning to Veronica’s texts and we’ll be finding out a bit more about why Veronica decided to learn French. Veronica also tells us a bit more about her daughter Jessica. Please note that lesson 09 of Season 3 was originally known as lesson 309 of Coffee Break French. We have renumbered the lessons of each season as lessons 1-40 to make things more simple for our listeners.

Lesson 10 – One Minute Swedish

In this tenth lesson of our course you will learn a few useful phrases which all learners want to learn.

If you can’t wait ten weeks for our entire course you can access the premium version of the entire course immediately. This features a lesson guide, video versions of each lesson featuring the words and phrases on the screen of your computer or mobile device as you listen, and an enhanced ebook which features the text and the video content and can be played on iPodTouch, iPhone and iPad through the iBooks app. Click on ‘purchase membership’ below to access all these resources for a one-off payment of £7.99.

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