Coffee Break Spanish - A New Year Message from Radio Lingua

Episode Date: December 29, 2014

As we approach the end of 2014, Mark has recorded a special news podcast to look back at the past 12 months and to look forward to some of the exciting new content coming in 2015.Looking back2014 has been an exciting year for us here at Radio Lingua. We’ve released 84 episodes across our range of courses including Coffee Break French Season 4, our new Coffee Break Spanish Espresso and Coffee Break German which has just finished its first season. We’ve also introduced our new gameshow, the Coffee Break French and Coffee Break Spanish Two Minute Challenges.In 2014 we have delivered over 16 million free language lessons to our learners around the world, bringing the total number of free language lessons delivered since we started back in 2006 to over 155 million! We hope you’ve enjoyed learning one of the 26 languages we offer!High Five French Family EditionThis year we’ve also introduced our French course for younger learners, High Five French, featuring presenters Emma and Mathilde. High Five French has been popular in schools throughout the UK and we’ve just released the Family Edition of High Five French, so if you have children or grandchildren who would like to learn French with this fantastic video resource, you can find out more here. Early in the New Year we’ll be offering some free High Five French audio lessons – there’s more information in the news podcast, and you can learn more about High Five French here. If you’re interested in using High Five French in a school, please visit our Schools page.Coffee Break Spanish Season 4We’ve also announced our fourth season of Coffee Break Spanish. From January 2015 you can join presenters Mark and Carmen as they follow a serialised story featuring a range of characters from around the Spanish-speaking world. This show has been specially created to help advanced learners of Spanish build their confidence in tricky grammatical constructions and increase their range of idiomatic expressions. Find out more about Season 4 here.Coffee Break ItalianWe’re also introducing a new series for Italian learners. In January 2015 we’ll be launching Coffee Break Italian. The forty lessons of this first season will introduce learners to the language and you’ll start to develop confidence in using the language in a variety of situations. Mark takes on the role of teacher for Coffee Break Italian and is joined by learner Katie and native speaker Francesca. There’s more information about Coffee Break Italian here.Mark’s learning SwedishAs we move into a new year it’s the perfect time to start learning a new language or to commit to improving your existing language skills. Mark is making his own New Year’s Resolution to learn Swedish and will be keeping a blog of his experiences. You can follow his adventures here.Our Sale is still onFinally, don’t forget that our End Of Year Sale is still on and you can save 15% on all our courses with coupon code WINTER2014. This includes the option to preorder Coffee Break Spanish Season 4 and Coffee Break Italian. You can check out the terms and conditions here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Radio Lingua News, 28th of December 2014. Welcome to this news update from Radio Lingua. We're coming to the end of the year and I wanted to record a message to share with our community of learners around the world as we get ready for a new year of language learning and there's quite a bit of news to share with you too. 2014 has been an exciting year for us here at Radio Lingua. We've released 84 episodes across our range of podcasts,

including Coffee Break French Season 4, her new Coffee Break Spanish Espresso and Coffee Break German, which has just finished its first season. We've also introduced our regular video podcasts for French and Spanish learners. The Coffee Break French and Spanish two-minute challenges are proving very

popular with learners. So if you've not yet checked them out, head over to coffeebreakfrenchchallenge.com or Coffee Breakspanish Challenge.com. Each episode takes around two minutes and it's all about building your vocabulary in a game show format. Now, we are delighted to report that this year we've delivered over 16 million free language lessons to our learners around the world,

bringing the total number of free language lessons delivered since we started back in 2006 to over 155 million. And we hope that you've enjoyed learning one of the 26 languages we have on offer. This year, we've also introduced our French course for younger learners, Hi-Fi French, featuring our young presenters, native English speaker Emma, who is learning French with her French speaking friend Matilde. High-Fi French has been very popular in schools throughout the UK, and we are already getting lots of interest from schools elsewhere in the world. In the past couple of weeks, we've released the family edition of High-Fi French. So if you have children or grandchildren who would like to learn French with this fantastic video resource,

you can find out more at Hi-FiFrench.com. Now, early in the new year, we are going to be offering some free High-Fi French audio lessons in a podcast format. And here are Emma and Mathilde to tell you more about that. Hello and welcome to High-Five French. Hello and welcome to High-Five French. My name is Emma. I'm Emma. And I'm Mathilde.

Mathilde is helping me to learn some French. In each episode of Hi-Five French, you can learn some French, you can learn some French. That's right. In each episode of our show, you can learn some words and phrases in French. I'm just learning too, so you can learn along with me. The French is... Easy. It's facile.

It's facile. It's facile. You try. It's facile. Bravo. Well done. High Five French is starting very soon. You can download our audio lessons from our website.

I5French.com. You can listen on your computer. or on your tablet on your phone or on your iPad and we also have video lessons and fun sheets to print out with puzzles and games that's all for today

we'll be back again soon with our first episode of high-five French a la prochein au revoir bye bye high five thank you very in 2015 we'll also be releasing our long-awated fourth

of Coffee Break Spanish. This is a brand new series for advanced learners. And if you're familiar with Coffee Break French season four, it's very similar in style. For this season, I'm joined by native speaker Carmen. Hello, Carmen. Hello, Mark. We're very content of the series. We're very content of the series. We're going to be following a story featuring. We are indeed here with some important news about Coffee Break Spanish 4. In each episode of the series, you'll be following a story featuring a group of Spanish speakers from different parts of the Spanish speaking world. And through these regular chapters of our story, you'll build your confidence in the language, learn to understand complex grammatical points, and develop a range of idiomatic expressions.

Coffee Break Spanish 4 will be starting in late January. To find it more, head over to Coffee Break Spanish Season 4.com, where you can learn more about the course and sign up to be kept up to date with everything about this new series. Carmen, we'll be back soon to tell us more about the show. Nos we'll be pronto, amigos. So that is something for our advanced Spanish learners,

but we also have some huge news about a completely new coffee break series because starting at the end of January, you'll be able to join us for Coffee Break Italian. Now, I'm going to be the main teacher in this first season of Coffee Break Italian, but as usual, I'll be joined by a lot. learner, in this case, Katie. So, Katie, bonjourno.

Bonjourno. Can you tell us what your role in Coffee Break Italian is going to be? Of course. I'm going to be the learner here, which means I'll be asking lots and lots of questions, and I really am looking forward to learning Italian with all of you. Now, as a learner, we always include a learner on our programmes, and you might well find that from time to time Katie's asking the questions that you have, or indeed, she might be making mistakes. But making mistakes is good. In fact, there's a lovely phrase in Italian. which is, Sbaliando, Simpaara, which means by making mistakes, you learn.

Indeed, you can only learn if you make mistakes in order to build on those mistakes. And to help us all build on those mistakes, we have Francesca here too. Bonjourno, Francesca. How are you? Chao, Mark, I'm good. Benissimo, thanks.

Can you tell our listeners a little about what your role in Coffee Break Italian is going to be? Of course. As a native speaker of Italian, I'm here to bring some authenticity to the lessons, as well as helping you to improve on your pronunciation and giving some cultural insight on Italy and Italian.

So this is our Coffee Break Italian team and we are really looking forward to bringing you this new series. To find it more, head over to coffeebreakatalion.com. A new year means New Year's resolutions and is the perfect time to start learning a new language or to commit to improving your existing language skills and this year I'm making a bit of a personal New Year's resolution in that I've decided to learn Swedish.

I've always been interested in Scandinavia and have visited Sweden a few times, but this is the year I'm going to learn the language properly, and I've decided to keep a blog of my experiences in the hope that the strategies I use to develop my understanding and to practice the language will help learners of other languages. If you're interested in following my adventures learning Swedish, you can visit marklearns Swedish.com.

Now, before I finish this little end of your news update, I would like to mention that we are having an end-of-year sale at the moment, so there's still time to purchase one of our courses with a 15% discount to help you get a head start on your language learning for 2015. We are including High-Fi French and the option to pre-order Coffee Break Italian and Coffee Break Spanish Season 4 in this sale. So to get a 15% discount on these courses, or indeed on any of our existing courses, use coupon code Winter 2014.

That's Winter W-I-N-T. T-E-R-2014 at checkout, and that's valid up until the end of the day on January the 1st 2015. That's all for this news update. I'd like to say merci to Emma and Matilde. Grazie to Carmen and gracier to Katie and Francesca too for joining us on this news show. Pierre Benoit sends his Mejorve from Western France where he's spending the holidays with his family. Finally, on behalf of the whole team here at Radio Linguay, I'd like to say a huge thank you to all our listeners

and wish you a very happy, healthy and successful 2015 full of many opportunities to practice your language skills. This is a production of the Radiolingua Network. Find out more at radiolingua.com.