Introducing Coffee Break French Season 4

cbf-season4-600We’re delighted to announce that Coffee Break French is returning for a fourth season for intermediate to advanced learners! From 21st October we’ll be publishing the forty episodes of Coffee Break French Season 4 over the next year.

In a similar vein to season 3, we’ll be following a story each week: you’ll meet Sylvie who has recently moved to Paris for work, and you’ll share her experiences as she creates a new life for herself in the capital through her regular emails to her mother. Like any maman, Sylvie’s mother worries about her and hopes to visit her soon, although she probably spends more time worrying about Sylvie’s love life! And then there’s Matthieu, who is also working in Paris and who, through time, will get to know Sylvie. But how will Matthieu’s “friend” Gabrielle feel about this? You’ll need to stay tuned to find out!

As with all our courses, Coffee Break French Season 4 is full of interesting constructions, tricky grammar points and wonderful French idioms, and we’ll be presenting everything in our usual style with lots of help and assistance to help you make progress. For this series, Mark will be joined by Pierre-Benoît and together they’ll present each episode in a combination of French and English.

We’ll be releasing some preview content along with details of the members’ version of the course over the next few weeks, so stay tuned!

Introducing High Five French

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Information for parents

High Five French is a brand new course aimed at younger learners of French. The course will feature free audio lessons available here on the Radio Lingua website and on iTunes. In addition to these free audio lessons, there will be bonus audio content, video lessons, worksheets and ebooks which have been created to help children learn the basics of French along with our two young presenters, Emma and Mathilde. We’ll be providing a comprehensive guide for parents to help you help your children to get the most out of the course.

Information for teachers

High Five French is also going to be available to schools in an online version or as DVDs with the full range of printable resources for use in class. We are very conscious that primary teachers are sometimes not French specialists, so we’re working on a teachers’ guide which will provide everything you need to help you use the materials effectively in class, and to answer the questions your pupils may have about what’s covered in each lesson!

Find out more

To find out more about High Five French, sign up to receive regular updates on the developments. You can do so at the High Five French website.

Lesson 25 – Coffee Break German

In this lesson we’re dealing with emergencies and learning to talk about problems you may encounter while travelling in a German-speaking area. Coffee Break German comes to you from the Radio Lingua Network. In weekly episodes you’ll join native speaker Thomas who’ll be teaching learner Mark in gradual, structured lessons. The episodes also feature Kirsten, our Grammar Guru, and Julia, our Cultural Correspondent.

Lesson 24 – Coffee Break German

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This lesson focuses on using the phone in German. Coffee Break German comes to you from the Radio Lingua Network. In weekly episodes you’ll join native speaker Thomas who’ll be teaching learner Mark in gradual, structured lessons. The episodes also feature Kirsten, our Grammar Guru, and Julia, our Cultural Correspondent.

Lesson 23 – Coffee Break German

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This week’s lesson continues on from last week and we’ll be continuing to learn to cope with a visit to the pharmacy or doctor’s while travelling in a German-speaking country. Coffee Break German comes to you from the Radio Lingua Network. In weekly episodes you’ll join native speaker Thomas who’ll be teaching learner Mark in gradual, structured lessons. The episodes also feature Kirsten, our Grammar Guru, and Julia, our Cultural Correspondent.

Coffee Break Spanish Magazine – Episode 210

Coming up in this week’s edition of the Coffee Break Magazine:

  • Alba asks, si te encontraras un billete de €50, ¿qué harías con él? – if you found €50, what would you do with it?
  • Mark joins Fernanda on a virtual tour of Las Ruinas Aztecas in Mexico;
  • and JP and Nahyeli answer listener Gabriel’s question about the how best to translate “to take” or “to bring” in Spanish using traer, llevar and tomar.