Coffee Break Spanish - How this works – Coffee Break Spanish Season 4

Episode Date: January 21, 2015

We’re about to launch the fourth season of Coffee Break Spanish and in this short podcast episode Mark explains what is involved in this new season.Each lesson in this new course represents a chapter in our story. The chapter is built around a text: this text could be an email or a conversation between two of the characters, or it could be a diary entry or a letter. In the audio episode we’ll listen to a spoken version of that text. We’ll be publishing the free preview episodes of the course here on the site, on iTunes and on Soundcloud. The preview episodes include an introduction from Mark and Carmen, the audio of the text and then a summary of the text in English to help learners understand.Our premium materials for Season 4 include the following elements:the full audio lesson: running to around 30 minutes, this episode analyses the text and Mark and Carmen will discuss the grammar points and idiomatic expressions featured in the text, helping you to understand with further examples;a transcript of the lesson: if you didn’t quite catch what the presenters said in Spanish in the episode, you’ll be able to follow the transcript and use the handy notes to help you fully understand;bonus audio lesson: we’re also providing an extra episode which will test you on your translation skills.Episode one will be published on Wednesday 28th January at 6:00pm UK time. If you’re interested you can go ahead and preorder the course here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hello to all allos and bienveniles a coffee break Spanish. This is Mark from Coffee Break Spanish and I thought it would be useful to tell you a little about how Coffee Break Spanish Season 4 is going to work. As we've already mentioned,

the series follows a story and this story features two main characters, Maria and Rory. Now, those of you who are familiar with Showtime Spanish or Coffee Break Spanish Season 3 and met Alba through Coffee Break Spanish Season 3,

you'll be delighted to know that Alba returns in the character of Maria. So we'll be listening to Alba playing Maria and well, Rory, Rory is a Scottish person, Maria's boyfriend, and so it's my job to play Rory. There are other characters in the story too. We'll be meeting Alejandro, who is from Argentina and also other members of Maria's family, but you'll hear more about that as time goes on.

So each episode focuses on one chapter of the story. Sometimes that's a conversation between Maria and Rory. Sometimes it's an email that Maria has written to Rory or Rory has replied to Maria. And sometimes it's a letter. Again, you'll hear more about this. I don't want to give too much away, but each time there will be some kind of text and we'll be listening to a spoken version of that text.

Now, the texts have been written in such a way that they are obviously telling the story, but they also contain lots of interesting language. So we've got complex grammar points, we've got very exciting idiomatic expressions, and we've also got some vocabulary that may well be new to you. And in each episode, I'll be joined by a new member of the Coffee Break Spanish team, Carmen.

Carmen is from Cuenca in Spain, and together we'll be talking about all those tricky grammatical points and the interesting vocabulary. Of course, we'll be using a lot of Spanish, but we'll also be talking in English and giving plenty of Spanish examples. If you're listening to this audio recording, then you are perhaps subscribed to the Coffee Break Spanish feed on iTunes or in your podcast's app,

and you've picked it up automatically, or perhaps you're listening on SoundCloud or on the website. Now, we'll be publishing a preview episode in each of these places, so on iTunes, on your podcasts app, or indeed on SoundCloud or on the website, and the preview episode will include the text of the particular chapter of the story, so that email or the phone call or the discussion or whatever. And I'll then give an English summary of that text to help you understand. So that's the preview episode, and it will last around four or five minutes.

The full episode will be near the 30 minute mark, and in that episode we'll be talking in great detail about all the grammar used, all these idiomatic expressions and so on, and we'll be giving you further examples and testing you on your understanding. So that full episode is part of our premium materials for Coffee Break Spanish Season 4, and in addition to the full episode,

we'll provide a transcript. We will be speaking in Spanish much of the time, so the transcript will help you understand exactly what we've said. So the premium materials are the full episode, the transcript, but also we'll be providing an additional audio episode, and this will test you on your translation skills. We'll take some of the grammar points and the idiomatic expressions from the text and then give you some phrases to translate into Spanish based on what you've learned.

We'll be starting Coffee Break Spanish Season 4 on the 28th of January 2015. If you're listening to this at some point in the future, then you can head over to Coffee Break Spanish Season 4.com and you'll see all the episodes that we've published there. But if you're listening as we record this in January 2015, then you can look forward to the show starting very soon. We'll be publishing episodes on a fortnightly basis in blocks of five, and that matches the 10-week blocks of some of our other shows

that are currently about to be released. The full publication schedule will be released on the 28th of January. If you'd like to find out more about Coffee Break Spanish Season 4, then you can head over to Coffee Break Spanish Season 4.com We're really looking forward to the launch of this new show and we know that you'll love it.

Mucha gratis and hasta amoe pronto. This is a production of the Radiolingua Network. Find out more at radiolingua.com.