Lesson 30 – Coffee Break Spanish
In Lesson 30, Mark and Kara bring you a cultural lesson. You will have the chance to hear some conversations with Spanish football supporters.
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Lesson 31 – Coffee Break Spanish
Lessons 31-40 were recorded in Spain and feature conversations with native speakers. These lessons will give listeners the opportunity to put the language they’ve been learning to use. In lesson 31 Mark and Kara are in the plane on the way to Spain, and they’re taking the opportunity to review some of the language learned [..
Lesson 32 – Coffee Break Spanish
Mark and Kara have arrived in San Javier airport near Murcia in the east of Spain. In this lesson you’ll listen to a conversation between Mark and the employee at the help desk at San Javier airport as Mark asks for directions to get to the hotel.
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Lesson 34 – Coffee Break Spanish
It’s a beautiful morning and Mark and Kara are joined by Kara’s mother and another tourist on the balcony of the hotel for breakfast. Topics covered include forming plural and singular verbs in the formal form.
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Lesson 35 – Coffee Break Spanish
In lesson 35, Mark and Kara are at the tourist information office asking about what there is to do in Santiago de la Ribera.
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Lesson 36 – Coffee Break Spanish
After a few weeks of server problems, we’re back with another episode of Coffee Break Spanish recorded in Santiago de la Ribera in eastern Spain. This week Mark and Kara go shopping for postcards and shoes.
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Radio Lingua celebrates 3 years of language-learning
On 18th October 2006, episode one of a new language-learning podcast called Coffee Break Spanish was released to the world. This show was a bit different from the other Spanish learning shows out there: it was a gradual introduction to basic Spanish presented by teacher Mark, teaching student Kara. At this stage no-one really knew [...]
Lesson 37 – Coffee Break Spanish
In lesson 37 Mark is in the hotel reception asking for directions to a local shopping centre. The conversation will help you practise the language required in this situation.
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Lesson 38 – Coffee Break Spanish
In lesson 38 Kara’s not feeling too well, so she and Mark visit a farmacia. Have a listen to the conversation which takes place in the chemist’s.
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Happy Holidays from Radio Lingua
2009 has been a fantastic year for Radio Lingua and we’d like to thank all our listeners for your support and enthusiasm over the past twelve months. To celebrate the end of 2009 and a new year of language-learning just around the corner, we’re delighted to announce our Holidays sale and give you some exciting [...]
Lesson 39 – Coffee Break Spanish
In this week’s lesson Mark and Kara talk to Bea, a student they met while recording in Spain. The conversation is the first of two dialogues focusing on language-learning.
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Lesson 40 – Coffee Break Spanish
Level 1 of Coffee Break Spanish draws to a close with this episode which looks at the languages of Spain through two conversations with native speakers.
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Lesson 42 – Coffee Break Spanish
Lesson 42 continues where we left off last time and looks further at conjugating verbs within the context of daily routine and making arrangements.
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Lesson 45 – Coffee Break Spanish
In lesson 45 Mark and Kara look further at making arrangements using the tricky Spanish verb quedar.
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Lesson 46 – Coffee Break Spanish
In lesson 46 Mark and Kara look at the difference between ser and estar, the two verbs which mean ‘to be’ in Spanish, and a grammar point learners often find difficult.
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Lesson 47 – Coffee Break Spanish
In lesson 47 it’s time to take a look at radical changing verbs, verbs which have some regular spelling changes in certain parts of the verb. Once you get used to these patterns you’ll be conjugating verbs like querer, pensar, poder and volver without a problem!
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Lesson 48 – Coffee Break Spanish
An easy way of extending your range of language is by using adjectives, and this lesson of Coffee Break Spanish looks at adjectives in detail. In Spanish adjectives have to “agree” with the word they describe and you’ll learn the rules of adjective agreements.
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Lesson 49 – Coffee Break Spanish
This week on Coffee Break Spanish we’re taking a further look at adjectives and we’ll be doing more practice using adjectives and making them agree with the word they describe. We’ll also take a look at describing people, including talking about hair and eyes.
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Lesson 50 – Coffee Break Spanish
In episode 50 of Coffee Break Spanish we’re putting what we’ve learned in recent weeks about descriptions to the test with an identity game.
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Lesson 51 – Coffee Break Spanish
In episode 51 of Coffee Break Spanish we learn how to say what you’re going to do in the future. In Spanish you use the verb ir combined with a and an infinitive. The lesson explains all you need to know and provides useful examples! This episode was originally released in January 2008, so it focuses [...]
