Coffee Break Spanish - Coffee Break Spanish - All You Need To Know
Episode Date: November 17, 2025Join Mark and Pablo for this special episode of Coffee Break Spanish where we're talking about something a bit different.We receive emails and messages all the time asking us "where should I start?", ...so we thought we'd answer that in this episode. We share details about how Coffee Break Spanish first started back in 2006 - and all of the Spanish resources we have released since then.We hope you enjoy hearing about the history of Coffee Break, with a few secrets revealed along the way!The links mentioned at the end of this episode are listed below:Find out more about Coffee Break Spanish hereAccess our full range of Spanish courses on the Coffee Break AcademyLearn more about Coffee Break TV herePlease note that the secret link mentioned was part of our Black Friday 2025 promotion which has now ended. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Hello and bienveninos to Coffee Break Spanish.
I'm Mark.
And today we have a special episode for you of Coffee Break Spanish.
So, Pablo, as you well know, one of the most common questions that we get asked here at Coffee Break is where do I start?
Which level is right for me?
For where do you start?
Yes, and it's a very valid question because when you're learning a language, sometimes the amount of materials can be a little bit overwhelming, but it's completely normal.
normal. And the good thing is that within this episode, we're going to explain everything that
you need to know all of the courses and resources that we have available and we'll explain exactly
where you should start. Now, if you're watching the video version, then we will include
time codes in the description so you can click forward, jump forward to that particular level
if that's what you're interested in, but then you'll miss some of the stories.
So Mark, talking about stories, I was thinking,
because I've been working here for a bit.
But correct me if I'm wrong,
you started this cofibre Spanish podcast in 2006?
Yeah, it was our first podcast.
It was the days before, really, most people were doing podcasts.
But we wanted to...
First of all, I kind of got aware of podcasting
and the opportunities that podcasting offered
because I was working on an education project,
and I thought, you know, this would be fantastic.
for language learning. And it so happened that a colleague's daughter wanted to learn Spanish. Kara,
as most of our learners will recognize Kara's name. So Kara wanted to learn Spanish. She wanted to be able
to use Spanish on holidays to Spain and other Spanish-speaking places. And she wanted to be able
to communicate with people, but not just learn a series of phrases. And so I thought, yeah,
why don't we use this whole concept of podcasting to create a series of lessons? And the
then produce additional materials
that went along with those lessons to help people
understand how to
use Spanish, even at a basic
level. So it's very
practical. All of the season one stuff,
the level one stuff is very practical.
I love the origins because for me, when I'm learning
a language, I look
at, you know, basic things that
want to be able to use
from that language when I am
in a country where they speak the language.
So it's great.
Yeah. So things like travel,
things like getting about the town, ordering coffee.
Very important.
Very important.
Food and coffee,
the most important,
always.
I'm sorry, I'm also like introducing yourself
and kind of all that sort of social chat.
So all of that is featured in level one.
And if our listeners aren't at that stage yet,
then that's the perfect level for you.
But the crucial thing is,
and this is something that Kara really wanted,
she didn't want to just learn a series of praises.
She wanted to understand how the language works.
So, of course, that's something that we really focus on.
We try to ensure that you can manipulate the language
and create your own sentences based on what you know that we...
Exactly, because once you understand how the language works,
you can try yourself and start building longer sentences
and be able to communicate with people.
And it's, oh, well, that little spark and joy of learning a language
comes than you think.
Absolutely. And I think it's the spark
you said there, the spark of, you suddenly
realize that what you've said,
you've never actually seen in your
course or your podcast or your
textbook or whatever. You've made that sentence
up yourself and guess what somebody's understood.
So fulfilling, isn't it?
Absolutely, absolutely. So that
was back in 2006, as you said.
Quantos an years? I don't know if I want to answer that,
but I was
12 at the time.
So yeah, we started with level one
And then it made sense to continue on from there
So we did a level two course which took things further
It went a little more into the grammar
And we started going into more detail with the grammar
Consolidation would be the word
So and we also looked at different types of grammar
In a sense you know expanding out from making simple sentences
In the present tense to then looking at past tenses
and things like the difference between the preterate and the imperfect
and all these kind of grammar topics that learners typically find that bit more challenging.
So this is level two now.
And we have a level two course.
We have a level one course,
and both of those courses feature additional materials.
You might be listening to the podcast and thinking,
I wonder how these words are written down,
or can I get some practice on these with exercises or vocabulary or lesson notes?
and all of that is in our course within the Coffee Break Academy.
So with our level one and level two courses,
that kind of takes you to an A2B1 level.
Same.
If our listeners are familiar with the European framework of reference for language learning.
So that goes from A1 to A2 for beginners and upper beginners,
then B1, which would be a kind of lower intermediate.
intermediate.
Then B2, upper intermediate,
and then C1, which is you're really getting advanced.
And C2 is, yeah, that's the dream.
Profesians, yeah.
I'm saying it's the dream.
That may be wrong, because it's not necessarily the dream.
Maybe some people just want to be able to communicate
in those practical situations.
And that might be an A1 or an A2 level.
If that's what you need, then perfecto.
Perfecto, yes.
So, yeah, we have courses that go right up
to see one level.
But we'll tell me about them a little later.
The important thing is that we have courses for everybody,
for every level, I think.
We do, yeah.
And I think it also is all progressive.
And, you know, you can follow through level one,
then move on to level two.
You know, one of the difficult things,
and I think this is something that our learners
very often comment,
one of the difficult things is when you get to a certain point
in any language,
and to begin with you feel as if you're moving forward
all the time because you're learning new phrases, new words, new concepts and how words combine.
And you get to a certain point and you can't keep going forward at that same level.
The plateau face, I like to call it.
So you get to get that plateau where you can't go forward in the same way and you need to kind
of go wider.
I always think of it like a narrow path through a forest and you're walking through this forest
path and the trees are very deep and dark on both sides and you're working your way through
this path and you're making progress
but then you get to this wide
open medal
kind of thing and there's lots of
different paths that you can go down and
I love that phase in learning a language
because everything that you learn
is new and you can go
so far and you know
you might never think
you would need to know how to
change a tire in Spanish
but doing a lesson and changing
a tire in Spanish might come in useful something
you never know you never know I love the
metaphor that you're using because I think it basically highlights that phase and you're so right
there. Yeah. And we have like everything when you're at that point so that you can whatever
path you end up taking, you're going to learn something. And that's the important thing.
Yeah. I think that's something more recently that we've really focused on in coffee break
because we for a long time we worked through level one, then level two, then level three and four.
we'll go back through level three and four later,
but we really wanted to try to make sure,
as you said, that we've got something for everyone.
And some people like stories,
some people like grammar,
some people like working through listening content,
some people like dictations and so on.
And over the years,
we've tried to add little courses,
sort of smaller courses at different levels,
but all within that sort of intermediate level
that will help learners
take a little step forward
and make progress every day,
every time they pick up their phone
or listen to a podcast or read a lesson note and so on.
So we've got a few courses.
I know that you've been involved in some of these.
I have indeed, but let's talk first about,
I would say, one of my favorite courses.
But you know what I'm going to say?
You look surprised.
Well, I thought your favorite course was Seedons, to be honest.
Which is this, but we'll talk about that later.
But I also really love travel diaries
because you get to experience the language in context
and you feel like you're traveling.
And I think it's such a great product.
We came up with travel diaries.
At a time when, let's face it,
the world was not able to travel
and everyone was desperate to be practicing their language
but wasn't able to.
So, yeah, 2020, 21, that kind of time.
And the idea was that we were following a journey
with a group of people
and we did this in all our languages.
But basically in Spanish, season one was following a couple who were on their honeymoon in the north of Spain.
Beautiful places along the north coast of Spain.
And then the second season of Travel Diaries was a group of Spaniards traveling in South America.
And so I think they went down through Peru and then into Bolivia.
Bolivia, yeah.
In fact, very similar to a journey that our colleague Eva did last year.
Yes, I don't remember.
Yeah.
So the travel diaries is a great course.
It's really good for people who want to build on their reading skills, their listening skills,
and again do that whole cultural thing because there's so much culture in each episode.
Learning context, so we would say.
Absolutely, absolutely.
So we've got two seasons.
Each season has 10 lessons and there are various materials that are associated with them as well.
So that's the travel diaries.
One of the other courses I really like is the magazine.
magazine.
Ah, see.
And the magazine is, again, linked to culture.
And I always kind of feel that learning a language without being interested in the culture
is a bit like a cup of coffee without a cake or a biscuit.
Totally.
You need the culture there to help give you context for the language.
And anyone who's interested in the language is probably interested in visiting places
where the language is spoken and therefore they're rich in culture.
And it's also, I feel like it's a motivation as well to kind of boost the language.
you're wanting to learn, you know, more consistently.
Yeah.
Me particularly when I'm, you know, learning a new language,
I always try to have that motivation.
And I think the magazine and the travel diaries are just perfect for it.
So the magazine, again, each episode focuses in a different aspect of culture.
And we're talking about culture across the Spanish-speaking world.
We have texts that summarize elements of that culture and talk about different,
I mean, different famous people.
food, traditions, even there's an episode about dance, there's music, there's a little bit of
everything there in the magazine. And we also use that as an opportunity to go into more detail
with the grammar. And again, it's that whole middle area, that whole intermediate area where
every little bit helps and every little bit of language that you can be exposed to will help
you move forward, we'll help you learn some new phrases, will help you. Most importantly, I think
consolidate what you already know
because the more times you see something
the more times it goes in and you think,
right, I definitely know that phrase now.
Exactly. And also imagine that they've done
level two where they have seen the grammar
all the grammar. Now it's the great opportunity
to see all that at play.
And I think it's the perfect element
and complement to at this stage.
Yeah. So we've got two seasons
of the magazine
two seasons of travel diaries
and we've also got two seasons
of scenes from the coffee break
Spanish cafe
I love that we're coming to this point
because it's a very very
I'm feeling very proud of scenes
because I've been very involved in it
It's basically related to what we're saying
is like language in context
but it feels like it's set in a cafe
somewhere in Spain
and we get
to know the regulars that attend
the cafe that is run
by our narrator, Isabel.
And through her eyes, we get to
you know, get to know their lives,
the gossip, the drama.
Los Cotillaos.
I think it's basically,
when we are doing it,
it feels like I could totally see myself
in that bar cafe.
So I think it's really, really good
because I think if our learners
take the score, they're going to definitely experience this.
And I think it's great.
It's great.
I think one of the things I love about scenes is that we've got a text that's not particularly
long, it's been, I don't know, 200 words or something like that.
And each text is a chapter in the story.
So we get to see, as you said, the regulars, but new people that come into the cafe
and little slices of life as how things happen and so much culture.
We were recording an episode earlier today.
and we were basically at a children's birthday party
and then we had
what was the other episode about?
It was about the fanfare
and we were...
The fun fair, that's right.
And then we were comparing how to call the rides
in English and in Spanish
and I love these cultural exchanges of things.
And then we went upstairs and talked to the rest of the team
to see who knew the different words, the different names
for the different fun fair ride.
So see the different words.
So scenes, we, as we said, we've got two seasons of scenes.
And it's the same characters that continue on within the second season,
but again, new characters, like a soap opera in a sense.
And with scenes, we have a whole range of additional materials.
So there are the lesson notes, there are vocabulary lists, exercises,
and then the spotlight videos.
Tell us about the spotlight videos.
Because obviously I could be commenting on the language with you all day long.
But obviously, we need to keep them relatively.
short. So then we have the opportunity to expand on those grammar points that we've not
have the time to go through in our spotlight videos. Perfect. So as scenes,
just at this level, if you've done level one and you've done level two, then we've got
three main courses at this level that you could also consider. So that's scenes, as we've just
spoken about, the magazine and the travel diaries. There's something else that we need to talk about
at this level, isn't there?
Coffee Break TV.
So Coffee Break TV is our special platform
where we have a huge range of individual lessons
that will help you take one step forward every day
or two steps or three steps depending on how much time you've got.
And all of the lessons are organized into like five minute lessons,
10 minute lessons, 15 minute lessons and so on
in different styles.
So we've got loads of different series and styles
of video lessons on.
And it's unbelievably the amount of content that there is there.
Like,
that's,
there's literally something for everyone,
something to keep you busy all the time.
And at the same time,
we will help you know what to learn
because we send out a daily email with a suggestion in it
so that if you're thinking,
oh, there's too much here,
I'm overwhelmed with too much choice.
Well, obviously, you can choose whatever lesson you want,
but we also make some suggestions to you.
So you can work through the,
types of lessons. Tell us about some of the types of lessons that we have in
So we have from translation challenges, also comprehension challenges. And then we have our series.
I'm a big fan of World Talk and Learn. So this is where Mark goes somewhere. And then
he spots little signs in advertisements or signs on the street. And then you spot a particular
grammar point that you think can be juicy from a woman.
grammar point.
I just see grammar point.
I like that.
So then we go back to the studio and myself or my colleagues explain and elaborate on that particular
sign or phrase that you found.
Exactly.
It's something that I think is so important that when you get the opportunity to be in a country
where the language you're learning is spoken, I remember taking groups of young people
when I used to work in education, working with secondary schools.
and so on.
We used to do lots of trips to various places
when the young people were going on.
What's the word?
An immersion visit to France or Spain or whatever.
And I remember walking along with the groups through the town.
They would be looking at their phones.
And I'm saying, look around you.
Look around you, spot these sites.
What does that mean?
You see a subjunctive there?
I'm imagining.
That's exactly how I was imagining you.
Mark somewhere in a city just like looking for the subjunctive in any sign.
Exactly like that, yeah.
And so I think that we've tried to take that whole concept
and put it into a series.
And that's walk, talk and learning on coffee break TV.
We also have a whole range of other types of videos.
We've got the verb lab videos where we focus on the verbs
and how to conjugate them and then use them in different examples.
We have a step-by-step, one of my favorites as well.
Quinted a note a little bit by step.
It's a little bit different because it's more audio than video,
This is thought to be listened when you are on a walk or doing house chores or whenever you have time.
You can also listen to it, driving to work.
And the idea is that it's more interactive.
So you will be taking part in it just so that you build your confidence in Spanish as well.
Yeah, a sort of practical way of practicing your Spanish as you go about your daily life.
So a whole range of videos on the coffee break TV platform.
And it's slightly different from our courses in the sense that Coffee Break TV has a subscription.
So you subscribe to it.
You can subscribe for a month.
You can subscribe for a year.
And you get access to all of the videos at once for that language.
We also have an all-languages subscription.
It's available in French, Italian, German, Spanish and soon to be English.
But you can choose just a Spanish subscription.
and then that way you get access to all of that
you get your daily reminder
and you can also keep your streak
So many of our learners
love keeping this streak
and we've now got
we started the sort of daily
lesson idea in January
of 2025
and it's now what November
2025 and we've got many
many learners who have got a 250 day plus streak
so committed our coffee breakers
Yeah, absolutely.
So that's Coffee Break TV.
And it has content for upper beginners, intermediate learners,
and also a few pieces of content,
quite a bit of content for upper intermediate learners too.
There's something really for everyone there in Coffee Break TV.
That is.
So a little recap, I think.
We've commented on Level 1.
Level 1 is for absolute beginners.
You might have never studied it a word of Spanish before,
or maybe you did that many, many years ago.
but you want a refresher. Level one will equip you with the kind of language you need for a trip to a Spanish-speaking area.
Then level two takes it further on and then you're at that intermediate level when you've got this range of different courses that we offer.
And those courses were travel diaries, magazine, scenes and coffee break TV.
So coffee break TV, the subscription and all of these others are courses, individual courses within the academy.
Pablo, there's one thing that we've not mentioned and that we should have mentioned.
And we should have mentioned this earlier in our discussions.
Another question that we very often get is about do you teach Spain-Spanish or Latin American Spanish or, yeah, some other kind of Spanish.
Will I be understood if I learn from coffee break Spanish?
The answer is?
And we get that.
The answer is no matter what type of Spanish you are taught, you are going to be understood everywhere in the Spanish-speaking world.
Absolutely.
I bumped into, I was, where was I? I was in London a couple of weeks ago. And the waiter in the restaurant I was in was from Argentina.
A lovely accent. That's a lovely accent. It really is. And he started talking to me. I was like, oh, I think I recognised the show. So it was like, Mishamo. And so I'm thinking, oh, I think you're from Argentina. And he said, yes, I am from Argentina. So we had a great conversation. And of course he understood me perfect.
well, even though my Spanish is kind of Salamancan Spanish from Spain.
But he understood me perfectly well, and I understood him, obviously.
So when you're learning, I think there is this misconception about the types of Spanish.
First of all, people talk about Latin American Spanish.
Latin American Spanish don't exist there.
No.
You've got Venezuelan Spanish, but then if you go down further, you've got Northern Venezuela and Spanish
and Southern Venezuela.
Each country will have their own varieties of Spanish and their own.
and their own words from time to time,
their own accent and pronunciation.
But ultimately, what we try to do in all of our courses
is mention where there's a particular word,
for example, even in the very early episodes of Coffee Break Spanish Level 1,
we talk about the fact that when we say Cozze in Spain,
we might be talking about a caro in Mexico, for example.
A auto, too.
Yes, perfect.
So that is a very important thing to say
that from the very beginning
we do try to ensure
that we cover different types of Spanish
and then we really
lean into that as things get
more developed when
we've got magazine episodes
about particular aspects of
I don't know an Argentine author and
so on and particularly
as we move on through the seasons
and this leads that mark to level three
okay because at this point
after completing level two
and maybe other of the courses
you're at that stage that you are
you're okay with the foundation
of Spanish so you are prepared to
take the next step.
It's a
level a little more advanced.
Yes, because in these courses
you have the conversation with
Alba in every lesson
and they're fully in Spanish.
Yes, completely in Spanish,
in the first part.
And then we're a intermediary.
An intermedia,
a intermediary that is very interesting.
And then,
a little bit of explication in English.
Okay, so it's that idea of lots of Spanish to begin with
and then intermedio
and that's always a little bit of fun,
a tongue twister or a joke or something like that.
If you can tell a joke in a foreign language
and make people laugh,
then you know that you're achieving a certain level.
And then in the second section,
we go through things in detail.
We give explanations of all of the interesting aspects
of the language there.
Yeah, it's a little more in a level.
I thought you were going to forget, but it's my favourite part.
I'm not going to life.
We mentioned the scenes is a little bit like a soap opera,
but in level three, we've got a soap opera.
Yes, yeah, so, yeah, so,
as well, verano-espagnol.
And I am a big fan of it.
Honestly, I find it hilarious,
and it's such a great, fun way of learning Spanish.
So the thing I love about this is that it's,
in the episodes of Berano-Spaniel,
come every fifth lesson in the course,
So you've got lessons one, two, three, and four, then an episode of Bena Españot,
then Lessons, 6, 7, 8, 9, and then another Beirano-Hispanual.
But let's say that in the course of lessons one, two, three, and four, we've maybe mentioned
some nice irregular future tenses, or perhaps a complex, subjunctive or something like that.
Well, wouldn't you know it just happens to surface again in the lesson five, which is our
Berraano-Spaniel episode?
So it's a great way of consolidating it, but in a completely different context.
And Ben-I-Spanual is like a radio play.
I don't know what you would call it nowadays,
but it's basically an audio play where you're listening to different voices
and there's a nice story, a little bit of intrigue, a little bit romance.
There is intrigue, yeah.
But it's fun.
It's fun.
And of course, we have a whole range of additional materials in the course version of Level 3
that will help you make faster progress and get into.
into the language more deeply.
And don't forget the video lessons.
Of course.
Pablo, you were involved in the video lessons.
I was.
So very important, the video lessons for level three,
where you see the words and phrases on screen
with everything explained.
And it's so much easier to follow that.
So that is at level three.
Now, at this stage, we are probably solid B1,
maybe even into B2 in certain aspects.
Yeah, I would say.
Of course it's difficult when it comes to talking about the European framework of reference and these levels.
It's difficult to say that if you do level three, then you will be at B2 because that may be in your listening or in your reading,
but maybe in your speaking or your writing, you might not be necessarily at that level.
So what we try to do is explain that these courses will equip you with the knowledge to be at that level in certain areas,
but you'll be working around that level
rather than you will have a level two
or a level, and you will have a B2 or whatever
if you do this level.
And to be honest, I see other courses out there that say,
you will be B2 when you complete this course.
It's impossible because you would need to be B2
in all aspects of the language
before you can say, yeah, I'm B2 or B1 or whatever.
Okay, what about after level three?
What would be the next step that you would recommend?
Probably in Marcha, I would say.
In Marcha.
So in Marcha is, I love in March.
A me en Carta, the funny story about it.
Because in Marcha came about it because we were in Spain.
In the Sur, no?
In the Sur, in Malaga and in Erjah and Fijiliana and this area that zone that
I love.
And we're still there to film our course for the Bejes,
but a lot of ninoes.
High five.
So we were filming
High five down there
and we had some extra days
after,
we actually managed to get the filming
of that finished a little early.
So we had some extra days
and we still were going to be around
in Malaga and that area.
So I thought,
well, we need to make the most of the way
while you're there.
So we came up with the idea
of basically interviewing
people who live and work
and perhaps even are on vacation there.
And we basically made a course around that.
And it's a fantastic course because it's full of interesting aspects.
And we were going back to film another section of the high five course.
So we added more content to that.
And then that became the full high five, sorry, the full in Marcha course.
So it's a lovely course with, I don't know, you feel the warmth.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
And so you get the experience.
spirit and that you are there talking to people or like getting to see different people and the way
they speak, their accent, their backgrounds. And while the conversations and the dialogues that we
include in the course, while they are explained and you've got a transcript of everything in the
course and so on, but they are, they're authentic speed. Let's just say that. You're listening to real
conversations with real native speakers
and you are getting
all of that experience within
the course in Marta
in Marta Concofevered Spanish
I really really like one of my favourites I think
and very fun memories of
lots of the interviews that we did
for that course that's fun
so that's in Marta
and then it's Level 4
Level 4
so tell us about level 4
so level 4 is
a course that follows the story
of Rory. Do you remember Rory?
I may remember Rory. I played Rory in that course, yeah.
And obviously level four, we are taking things
farther. So this is like, I would say,
B2-ish, I would say, pushing it to C-1, I would say.
So we're following a story, as Pablo said,
about kind of a treasure.
A treasure, very sunken treasure
of the island of Majorca
in the Balearix in Spain.
And it's presented by myself and Carmen.
But then in each episode we listen to either a conversation or a phone call or perhaps a diary entry.
There's lots of different types.
There's even like journalistic pieces because within the course of the 40 lessons, we cover lots of different types of texts to give you experience of all of those different types.
Which you will expect at that level.
Absolutely. And so we hear that element. Then we go through everything in detail and explain all of the context.
But we're about much in Spanish.
Yeah, all the time, practically.
When we explain something in English, it's very important that the audience understand perfectly.
But much of Spanish.
Majoritarianly in Spanish.
Yeah, I'd say.
So yeah, that's level four. And again, obviously, the, the, the, the,
course version has all of the notes. In fact, it's got a full transcript because so much of it
is in Spanish, so a full transcript and then also the all the additional materials which will help
you. And we've got, this is where we really come into, to play with translation challenges.
So in our bonus materials, we have a translation challenge where the listener has to come up
on the spot with a phrase based on something that has been covered in the episode.
So, yeah, so this is a really advanced level
We're at B2N to see one level with level four
And if that's your level and you've not yet done level four
It's a brilliant course
I would definitely suggest that
And what else?
There's a little bit more advanced to even
Yeah, the penultima
Voluntat
So just to explain, the phrase in Spanish
the
ultimate
is your
last will
and testament
but the
penultima
volunted would
be the second
last
when Willintest
Testament
so it's a little
plea on
words
but this is
a very advanced
course
so we are very
firmly in C1
here
and with the
the course
is all based
around a novel
and the novel
is something
that
well
our colleague
Annabel
was
so
so
and so
so
It's what you're
It's about
a family
and
evidently
it's a
novel
so there's
a little
drama
and I
don't
I don't
say
but
problems
family
and
in torno
a herencia
also
there are
some
some
stories
very
interesting
all
related
with
with
the
circle
family
is
very
interesting
I
don't
We don't want to give away the spoilers
but basically this is a kind of family story
there's something to do with an inheritance
as you said
and it's basically an opportunity to
in a sense get the experience of reading a novel
the kind of novel that you would pick off the shelf
but with all of the support
that coffee break is famous for
so we have
in-depth episodes where we're discussing
all of the language
included in all of the edumatic
expressions, the complex grammar and all that side of thing.
We also have the Tadier Linguistico, where we go into some of those phrases and see them in other
contexts and we take the opportunity to develop that much further and go into that in greater
detail.
And so there's all sorts of additional materials there.
And of course, we have a book version of the course.
I always prefer to have the...
I like the smell of paper personally.
So yes, that's it, yeah.
So yeah, you can work through the book.
The book's available online,
and you can work through the book
while listening to the course.
And it's, again,
a really great opportunity
to take your advanced Spanish on further
in the same way that you would
if you picked up a Garcia-Marquez book
or wherever,
because you're reading a story,
you're getting engaged in the story,
and you're understanding what you're reading,
but you've got all this support,
this additional support
that we provide.
within the course.
So that's La Penultima Borontad.
So that's our whole range
from absolute beginners
up to an advanced level.
Now, we've just been talking about books
with La Penultima Warontad, which has a book version.
But we also have another
Spanish book that our learners
may be very interested in, particularly
if you're at slightly lower level
around an intermediate
A2B1 level.
And that's our 50 coffee breaks,
50 Spanish coffee breaks series.
So it's basically a book with activities
organized in activities that will take you
five, ten or fifteen minutes.
And it's the great opportunity to put everything into practice.
But with a physical thing.
With a physical book.
There is a e-book version of it as well,
but the physical book.
In fact, we've got it here.
We've got it here,
50 Spanish coffee breaks.
And it's brilliant because it has lines in it
So you can write your answers in the book itself.
And, you know, there's lots of different types of activities
which will help you practice your grammar,
increase your vocabulary, learn some idioms.
And again, that whole cultural aspect thing.
And there are also answers,
so you know whether you've got things right or got things wrong.
So that's the 50 Spanish coffee breaks,
which you will find in all good bookshops are online.
And hundreds, literally hundreds of,
five-star reviews on our 50
coffee break series. So you can
definitely have a look for them there.
Well, Pablo,
tantas coas, for that's
that's what we've been doing for the past
19 years, basically.
We should mention
that if you have a look in the description
of this video, you will see
a secret link. And at that secret
link, there are some
very interesting
pieces of information that
Because basically, there might be a little bit of a discount on all of the things that you've heard today.
Full details will be at the link.
But it's definitely worth checking out the link in the description of this podcast episode or this video.
Because you'll find everything that you need to know there.
And a who no likes a discount, Marr?
A who doesn't love a discount.
Well, muchisima, thank you.
Nothing.
Much thanks to you.
I've been a pleasure.
learn a few things about
the history of coffee break.
I've just enjoyed reminiscing. It's been
great fun. We hope that this has been
useful to you as a learner of
Spanish and as a listener or a viewer
of our content. And we'll be back
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for now. Muchissima. Thanks.
Thank you. Thanks to you.
Until the next. And happy coffee breaking.
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