Coffee Break Spanish - Radio Lingua celebrates 3 years of language-learning

Episode Date: October 18, 2009

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 if the idea would work, but Coffee Break Spanish grew to become one of the most popular ways to learn Spanish online. The show quickly climbed the charts on iTunes UK and US, and began to feature in the top podcasts at Podcast Alley and on Libsyn.Three years down the line and the Radio Lingua Network now produces twenty-seven language courses in eighteen languages and this week saw the sixty millionth download of our language lessons! That means – on average – around 55,000 downloads per day, every day for the last three years.It’s time to celebrate!To celebrate this milestone in our company’s development, we’re reducing everything to 60% of the normal prices, ie. 40% off, for one week only, from noon GMT on 18th October through to midnight GMT on 25th October. There has never been a better time to purchase our lesson guides, enhanced podcasts and extra listening materials. Simply use coupon code sixty when you sign up for any of our shows. You can choose between Coffee Break Spanish, Coffee Break French and Show Time Spanish, or indeed one of our shorter One Minute or TwitterLearn courses. By purchasing a membership you can access a range of materials including pdf lesson guides featuring the words and phrases included in each lesson, enhanced podcasts which are perfect for listening on the iPod Touch or iPhone where you can see the flashcards synchronised to the audio, and bonus listening materials to help you improve your language skills even more.Please note that the coupon code can’t be used in conjunction with any other offer and is limited to one purchase per member. Please note too that in order to qualify for the discount, the coupon code must be used at checkout time. We can’t offer retrospective discounts if the coupon code was not used.Announcing a new developmentWe’ve been reading your comments regarding discussion boards and building a community around our lessons. Our previous discussion boards were created before we developed our membership system, so were unfortunately not linked to the system. Today we’re launching our new Community area where listeners can interact with each other, share their language-learning experiences and benefit from collaborative learning with fellow listeners. Accessing the Community is free, but you’ll need to sign up for an account in our system, so we’ll hopefully avoid the spam problems we’ve had in the past.If you’re already a member of our system then you’ll be able to access My Courses in the community, where we’ll lead activities and generate discussions in which you can practise what you’ve learned in each lesson. My Courses is restricted to our premium members, so if you’ve purchased a Season Pass to Coffee Break French Level 2, you’ll see this course in My Courses, allowing you to interact with your fellow learners in the activities and discussions there. And if you’re not yet a premium member, you can join this week at a hugely discounted price! We’re looking forward to interacting with all our... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Radio Lingua News 18th of October 2009. Welcome to a special edition of Radio Lingua News. Why is it a special edition? Well, Radio Lingua is three years old today. Back on the 18th of October 2006, episode one of a new language learning podcast called Coffee Break Spanish was released to the world. 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 already said, my name is Mark and I'm joined by Kara. Hola, Kara. Huala! It takes me back. This show was a bit different to the other Spanish learning shows out there at the time. It was a gradual introduction to basic Spanish presented by teacher Mark, that's me, and I was teaching Kara, who had never learned Spanish before. At this stage, no one really knew if the idea would work, but Coffee Break Spanish grew to become one of the most popular ways to

learn Spanish online. This will quickly climb the charts on iTunes in the UK and in the US, and it began to feature in the top podcasts at Podcast Alley and on Libson. Three years down the line, and the RadioLingua Network now produces 27 language courses in 18 languages, and this week sought the 60 millionth download of our language lessons. That means on average, around 55,000 downloads every day for the last three years. We'd like to say a huge thank you to all our listeners who have helped us reach this milestone. Now, to celebrate our 60 millionth download and our three years of language podcasting, we are announcing a sale today, and we're reducing

everything to 60% of the normal price. That's 40% off for one week only. And that's from today until midnight GMT on the 25th of October. There has never been a better time to purchase our lesson guides, our enhanced podcasts and extra listening materials. All you need to do is use the coupon code 60, S-I-X-T-Y, when you sign up for any of our courses. By purchasing a membership for Coffee Break Spanish, Coffee Break French, Showtime Spanish, or our one-minute courses or even Twitter Learn, you'll be able to access a range of materials. Depending on what the course is, you can access PDF lesson guides, enhance podcasts, extra listening materials and even videos in the case of Twitter Learn.

So if you'd like to take advantage of this offer, then head straight to radiolingua.com and use the coupon code 60 at checkout. Now, we're also launching today a new part of our website. We've been reading your comments regarding discussion, and building a community around our lessons. Our previous discussion boards were created before we developed our membership system, so we're unfortunately not linked to that system.

Today, we're launching our new community area, where listeners can interact with each other, share their language learning experiences, and benefit from collaborative learning with fellow listeners. Accessing the community is free, but you'll need to sign up for an account in our system, so we'll hopefully be able to avoid the spam problems that we've had in the past.

If you're already a member of our system, then you'll be able to access my courses. This is a special area within the community where we'll lead activities and generate discussions in which you can practice what you've learned in each lesson. For example, this week we've just launched Lesson 6 to 8 of Coffee Break French. So if you're a season passholder for Level 2 in Coffee Break French, then you can sign in My Courses and there you'll find a whole range of activities associated with Lesson 6 to 8. There are some links to some interesting reading and discussion points for you to contribute to the discussion in the community. Now, My Courses is restricted to our premium members

so if you've already purchased a season past to one of our courses, then you'll be able to access that area immediately. And if you're not yet a premium member, then you can join this week at that hugely discounted price using the coupon code 60. We're really looking forward to interacting with all our learners in MyCourses. So finally, just once more, a huge thank you to all our listeners for helping us reach the milestone of 60 million downloads and three years in language podcasting.

Here's to many more millions of downloads and many more years providing language learning materials for listeners around the world. This podcast was brought to you by the Radiolingua Network. Find out more at www.radiolingwa.com.