Coffee Break Spanish Magazine Episode 104

This week’s episode of the Coffee Break Spanish is a slightly spooky Hallowe’en episode. In this edition:

  • Alba asks the macabre question ¿Cuál es tu peor pesadilla?;
  • Laura introduces the expression me he levantado con el pie izquierdo, meaning “to get out of the wrong side of the bed”;
  • and JP and Nahyeli help listener Kelly understand the differences between the verbs querer and amar?

French WOTD Review, 28 Oct 2012 (repost)

We’ve been publishing a daily word on Facebook and Twitter and each day we’ve asked our Facebook friends and Twitter followers to post a comment using the word of the day, thereby practising their language skills. This week we’ve focused on the topic of travel and we’ve shared the following words and phrases with our community: voyager, le voyage, le passeport, les bagages and en avion.

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European Podcast Award Nominations

We’re delighted to report that both Coffee Break French and Coffee Break Spanish have been nominated in the European Podcast Awards in the Professional Podcast category. The voting period lasts until January and we’d like to ask our community of language learners around the world to cast their vote for our podcasts.

Vote for Coffee Break Spanish here

Vote for Coffee Break French here

After clicking on the links, click the Vote button and then award us the number of stars you think we deserve. (Hopefully five…!) You can vote for both podcasts if you would like to! Don’t forget to click on the Vote and win button!

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Spanish WOTD Review, 27 Oct 2012

We’ve been publishing a daily word on Facebook and Twitter and each day we’ve asked our Facebook friends and Twitter followers to post a comment using the word of the day, thereby practising their language skills. This week we’ve been talking about travel and as usual the Radio Lingua community has come up with some excellent examples of this week’s words: viajar, el viaje, el pasaporte, el equipaje and en avión.

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Coffee Break Spanish Magazine Episode 103

This is the third episode of our Coffee Break Spanish Magazine. In this edition:

  • JP and Nayheli answer listener Beth’s question about how to translate “every other…” into Spanish;
  • Laura explains the expression tener una mosca detrás de la oreja, meaning “to be suspicious about something”
  • and in our interviews, Alba asks ¿En qué pasas demasiado tiempo?

Coffee Break Spanish Magazine Episode 102

This is the second episode of our Coffee Break Spanish Magazine. In this edition:

  • Laura introduces us to the expression por si las moscas;
  • JP and Nahyeli answer Steve’s question about using the verb fingir, meaning “to pretend”
  • and in our interviews, Alba asks ¿Qué es para ti un buen profesor?

Coffee Break Spanish Magazine Episode 101

It’s here! We’re delighted to present the first edition of the Coffee Break Spanish Magazine. In this edition:

    • Alba asks the question ¿Cómo pasabas el verano cuando eras niño? – “How did you spend your summers as a child?”;
    • Laura introduces us to the expression de perillas;
    • and in our Q&A Spanish section JP and Nahyeli answer Molly’s question concerning gender of nouns.