Coffee Break Spanish - A special thank you from Coffee Break on International Podcast Day

Episode Date: September 30, 2020

Every 30th September, the podcasting world comes together to celebrate podcasting on International Podcast Day. We're celebrating today by saying thank you to the Coffee Break community in this special podcast episode. International Podcast Day aims to raise awareness about podcasts and gives podcast creators and listeners a chance to celebrate the medium and the podcast industry.But podcasting has been around for a lot longer than that! Back in 2004, broadcaster Adam Curry asked developer Dave Winer to develop an audioblogging system and without going into the technical side of things, or indeed who specifically “invented” podcasting, it was Curry and Winer who got the ball rolling. The word “podcast” however, was first mentioned in a newspaper article in the Guardian by technology reporter Ben Hammersley. It was declared Word of the Year by the New Oxford American Dictionary in 2005. Of course, at this stage Coffee Break hadn't yet launched, but Coffee Break host Mark did start podcasting for an education project he was running at the time called Partners in Excellence or “PiE”, and The PiEcast was used to bring a community of learners together and help them develop their language skills. Mark quickly realised that podcasting was the perfect medium for publishing language lessons, and for sharing his passion for languages with a wider audience. Coffee Break Spanish was launched in October 2006. As the very first Spanish podcast for beginners on iTunes, it quickly gathered an audience and learners around the world started learning with us. Since then we’ve gone on to produce Coffee Break French, German, Italian, Chinese, Swedish and English and we have plans to develop more Coffee Break languages in the future. We’ve also created shorter podcast series called One Minute Languages covering over 30 languages from Arabic to Zulu. We’ve published well over 1,000 episodes across the different languages and our podcasts have been downloaded over 290 million times, and we currently deliver over 2 million free language lessons every month to a community of Coffee Break learners. So that’s why today, I’d like to take this opportunity to thank you, our podcast listeners, our Coffee Break community. Without you there wouldn’t be any Coffee Break! Thank you for choosing to listen to our shows, to learn with us and to share your 15 or 20 minute coffee break with me and my cohosts on each episode of the show.Now just before we finish, a couple of important points: if you’d like to hear about the latest episodes and series from Coffee Break, make sure you join Mark on Sunday 4th October at 4pm UK time / 11am Eastern / 8am Pacific for a live broadcast on YouTube and our Facebook pages. You can go straight to our YT channel - Coffee Break Languages - and click the “Set Reminder” button.And, if you’d like to help us celebrate International Podcast Day, why not simply tell a language-loving friend about what you’ve learned with our podcasts and help us grow the Coffee Break community even further?Merci beaucoup - vielen, vielen Dank, muchísimas gracias, grazie molte, xiè xie nimen, tack så jättemycket and thank you! There’s lots more coming from Coffee Break and we hope you continue to enjoy learning with us. Happy International Podcast Day! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This is a special episode from Coffee Break Languages for International Podcast Day. It's Mark from Coffee Break here and I'd like to welcome you to this special podcast episode, which is going out on all of our Coffee Break podcast feeds today. Why? Because the 30th of September is International Podcast Day. And we are celebrating by saying a huge thank you to all our podcast listeners. This annual celebration of all things podcasting launched as a national podcast day in the US in 2014 and then became an international event in 2015, helping raise awareness about podcasts

and giving podcast creators and listeners a chance to celebrate the medium and the podcast industry. But podcasting has been around for a lot longer than that. Back in 2004, broadcaster Adam Curry asked developer Dave Weiner to develop an audio blogging system and without going into the technical side of things

or indeed who specifically invented podcasting, it was Curry and Winer who got the ball rolling. The word podcast, however, was first mentioned in a newspaper article in The Guardian by technology reporter Ben Hammersley. It was declared a word of the year by the new Oxford Dominican Dictionary in 2005.

Of course, at this stage, coffee break wasn't even a twinkle in my eye, but I did start podcasting for an education project I was running at the time called Partners in Excellence, or Pi, and the Pi cast was used to bring our community of learners together and help them

develop their language skills. I quickly realized that podcasting was the perfect medium for publishing language lessons and for sharing my passion for languages with a wider audience. We launched Coffee Break Spanish in October 2006 and as the very first Spanish podcast for beginners on iTunes, it quickly gathered an audience and learners around the world started learning with us.

Here's a clip from the very first Coffee Break podcast. Coffee Break Spanish program 1. You're listening to Coffee Break Spanish. The show which brings your language with your latte. With Coffee Break Spanish, you're going to be learning to speak and understand the language. Meet new people, get a promotion or travel the world. I'll listen more in the next 15 minutes. I'm Mark and I'm going to be your teacher for this course. And I'm Kara and I'm going to be learning with all of you. So grab a coffee, sit back and relax and learn with Coffee Break Spanish. Ola! Welcome to this very first edition of Coffee Break Spanish. As we've were

already said, my name is Mark and I'm joined by Kara. Hello, Kara. Hello. Now, if you've downloaded this podcast, it means one thing and one thing. So, since then, we've gone on to produce coffee break French, German, Italian, Chinese, Swedish and English. And we have plans to develop more coffee break languages in the future. We've also created shorter podcast series called One Minute Languages, covering over 30 languages from Arabic to Zulu. We've published well over 1,000 episodes across the different languages.

And our podcasts have been downloaded. read over 290 million times. We currently deliver over 2 million free language lessons every month to a community of coffee break learners. So that's why today I'd like to take this opportunity on behalf of our whole team to thank you our podcast listeners, our coffee break community. Without you, there wouldn't be any coffee break. Thank you for choosing to listen to our shows, to learn with us, and to share your 15 or 20 minute coffee break with me and my co-hosts on each episode of the show. Now, just before we finish a couple of important points. If you'd like to hear about the latest episodes and series from Coffee Break, make sure you join me on Sunday the 4th of October

at 4pm UK time, 11am Eastern or 8am Pacific for a live broadcast on YouTube and on our Facebook pages. You can go straight to our YouTube channel, that's Coffee Break Languages, and click the Set Reminder button on that live stream. And if you'd like to help us celebrate, International Podcast Day, why not simply tell a language-loving friend about what you've learned with our podcasts and help us grow the Coffee Break community even further? Merci beaucoup, feel and feel and thank you. Grazie Maltesee much, and thank you. There's lots more coming from Coffee Break and we hope you continue to enjoy learning with us.

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