Whether you’re planning a trip to a Spanish-speaking country, trying to connect with new friends, or just eager to pick up a new skill, learning the basics of Spanish can be incredibly rewarding. Today, we’re going to focus on two fundamental questions: ‘‘what’s your name’ and ‘where are you from’ in Spanish. These are essential
In our second episode of Show Time Spanish, Mark and Alba talk about languages and their own language skills. In the intermedio, José provides two phrases which can be used to tell someone that they are annoying you. Language points include progressive tenses using estar + gerund, and a particular use of the future tense.
When learning a new language, greetings are one of the first things you’ll want to master. Spanish, with its warm and vibrant culture, offers a variety of greetings suitable for different times of the day and other contexts. This guide will cover essential Spanish greetings, including how to say good morning in Spanish, and explore
We’re delighted to announce that two Radio Lingua podcasts have been shortlisted in the 2008 Podcast Awards. Coffee Break French has been shortlisted in the Education category, and Coffee Break Spanish has been chosen as one of ten podcasts in the prestigious People’s Choice category. We’re counting on your votes, so please support the
Welcome to the inaugural episode of Show Time Spanish. In the first episode you will meet presenters Mark and Alba and get to know them a bit better. You will also meet José who will help you take your Spanish to al siguiente nivel in the intermedio. Each episode will provide an opportuntiy for learners
Learning a new language can be a thrilling experience, and one of the first things you’ll want to know is how to greet people and express how you’re feeling. In this blog post, we’ll guide you through the basics of how to say ‘hi’ in Spanish and how to respond when someone asks how you’re
Es hora de pasar al siguiente nivel, de los ensayos al espectáculo. Éste es tu momento: ¡que se abre el telón! This promo for Show Time Spanish introduces Alba, Mark’s cohost. Subscribe now for our free lessons. Members | Purchase | RSS | iTunes link
We recently invited you to nominate Coffee Break Spanish for a European Podcast Awards, and it must be the seaon for all the awards at the moment, as the international podcast awards have just been announced. Listeners are invited to vote for their favourite podcasts in a number of categories, and, of course, we’d be
Joe Dale of Integrating ICT into the Classroom pointed out this video on YouTube which you may well have seen or heard of, but it has been subtitled in Spanish which may interest our Coffee Break Spanish learners who are desperate to learn some imperatives (command forms)! These are actually coming up in a future
We’re delighted that Coffee Break Spanish has now reached episode 60, marking the end of unit 6 of our course. Episode 60 offers some review of episodes 51-59, so we’re testing Kara on her knowledge of the preterite and imperfect tenses! To find out how she gets on, visit the CBS Lesson Library.
The gloves are off! We’ve been watching the iTunes US podcast charts all week with great interest and despite moving into a higher position than the previous #1 This American Life from Chicago Public Radio, a new entry has suddenly climbed up to the top-spot: Oprah and Eckhart Tolle’s “A New Earth” is an “exclusive
There is great excitement here at Radio Lingua as we discovered this morning that Coffee Break Spanish is currently the second most popular podcast in the US according to iTunes. That’s second most popular of all podcasts, not just Education, and at the last count I heard that means 120,000 podcasts. The question is: will
We were delighted to discover today that Coffee Break Spanish was listed in the “Best of 2007 Podcasts” on iTunes US and Canada. Many thanks to all our listeners for your support and ongoing interest in the show.
Mark and Kara from Coffee Break Spanish were down in Cardiff yesterday to pick up a coveted European Award for Languages, presented by Isabella Moore, CEO of CILT, the National Centre of Languages on behalf of the European Commission. Watch the video of the proceedings below.
We’re delighted to announce that Coffee Break Spanish reaches something of a milestone today. We launched the podcast on 18 October 2006. Forty-two shows – and 9.6 million downloads – later, we’d like to thank all our listeners for sharing 15 minutes of your day with us as you learn Spanish. Here’s to another year!
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
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