Coffee Break French

Coming up in this lesson: After a slight delay we’re back with another episode of Coffee Break French with more translation challenges to help you test your knowledge of the materials covered in Season 3. Please note that lesson 37 of Season 3 was originally known as lesson 337 of Coffee Break French. We have renumbered the lessons of each season as lessons 1-40 to make things more simple for our listeners. Accessing the Premium Version   If you’d like to get more out of the materials, we offer an exclusive members’ version of the lesson which is twice the length of the free version and provides a line-by-line analysis of the language used, along with a version of the text read at normal speed. The members’ materials include a comprehensive transcript and lesson notes in pdf format which can be used on any computer, or ePub format, specially created for the iBooks app on the iPod Touch, iPhone or iPad.   * Season 3 Complete, lessons 300-340 (£89.00 GBP inc VAT / approx £109 USD ex VAT for non EU customers) * Season 3A, lessons 300-320 (£57.00 GBP inc VAT / approx $67 USD ex VAT for non EU customers) * Season 3B, lessons 320-340 (£57.00 GBP inc VAT / approx $67 USD ex VAT for non EU customers) Subscribe links Subscribe in iTunes | RSS Feed | Purchase members’ audio and transcripts   You may also be interested in Coffee Break French Season 3 on the iBookstore.

Coming up in this lesson: In this week’s Coffee Break French we provide another opportunity for you to test your translation skills based on what you’ve learned in Season 3. Please note that lesson 36 of Season 3 was originally known as lesson 336 of Coffee Break French. We have renumbered the lessons of each season as lessons 1-40 to make things more simple for our listeners. Accessing the Premium Version   If you’d like to get more out of the materials, we offer an exclusive members’ version of the lesson which is twice the length of the free version and provides a line-by-line analysis of the language used, along with a version of the text read at normal speed. The members’ materials include a comprehensive transcript and lesson notes in pdf format which can be used on any computer, or ePub format, specially created for the iBooks app on the iPod Touch, iPhone or iPad.   * Season 3 Complete, lessons 300-340 (£89.00 GBP inc VAT / approx £109 USD ex VAT for non EU customers) * Season 3A, lessons 300-320 (£57.00 GBP inc VAT / approx $67 USD ex VAT for non EU customers) * Season 3B, lessons 320-340 (£57.00 GBP inc VAT / approx $67 USD ex VAT for non EU customers) Subscribe links Subscribe in iTunes | RSS Feed | Purchase members’ audio and transcripts   You may also be interested in Coffee Break French Season 3 on the iBookstore.

Coming up in this lesson: We’re back with another lesson of translation challenges to help you practise what you’ve learned in this season of Coffee Break French. Please note that lesson 35 of Season 3 was originally known as lesson 335 of Coffee Break French. We have renumbered the lessons of each season as lessons 1-40 to make things more simple for our listeners. Accessing the Premium Version   If you’d like to get more out of the materials, we offer an exclusive members’ version of the lesson which is twice the length of the free version and provides a line-by-line analysis of the language used, along with a version of the text read at normal speed. The members’ materials include a comprehensive transcript and lesson notes in pdf format which can be used on any computer, or ePub format, specially created for the iBooks app on the iPod Touch, iPhone or iPad.   * Season 3 Complete, lessons 300-340 (£89.00 GBP inc VAT / approx £109 USD ex VAT for non EU customers) * Season 3A, lessons 300-320 (£57.00 GBP inc VAT / approx $67 USD ex VAT for non EU customers) * Season 3B, lessons 320-340 (£57.00 GBP inc VAT / approx $67 USD ex VAT for non EU customers) Subscribe links Subscribe in iTunes | RSS Feed | Purchase members’ audio and transcripts   You may also be interested in Coffee Break French Season 3 on the iBookstore.

Coming up in this lesson: In lesson 34 of Season 3 we provide more translation exercises for you based on the constructions, vocabulary and grammar covered in this season. We’ll give you the phrase, followed by some time to work out the answer, and then we’ll talk through the answer, helping you to construct the phrase yourself in French. Please note that lesson 34 of Season 3 was originally known as lesson 334 of Coffee Break French. We have renumbered the lessons of each season as lessons 1-40 to make things more simple for our listeners. Accessing the Premium Version   If you’d like to get more out of the materials, we offer an exclusive members’ version of the lesson which is twice the length of the free version and provides a line-by-line analysis of the language used, along with a version of the text read at normal speed. The members’ materials include a comprehensive transcript and lesson notes in pdf format which can be used on any computer, or ePub format, specially created for the iBooks app on the iPod Touch, iPhone or iPad.   * Season 3 Complete, lessons 300-340 (£89.00 GBP inc VAT / approx £109 USD ex VAT for non EU customers) * Season 3A, lessons 300-320 (£57.00 GBP inc VAT / approx $67 USD ex VAT for non EU customers) * Season 3B, lessons 320-340 (£57.00 GBP inc VAT / approx $67 USD ex VAT for non EU customers) Subscribe links Subscribe in iTunes | RSS Feed | Purchase members’ audio and transcripts   You may also be interested in Coffee Break French Season 3 on the iBookstore.

Coming up in this lesson: Lesson 33 of Season 3 is the first of eight lessons which focus on consolidating what you’ve learned in the past 32 lessons. We’ll be testing your grammar and vocabulary with a series of guided translation exercises: we’ll give you a phrase to translate into French and then work through the solution with you. Please note that lesson 33 of Season 3 was originally known as lesson 333 of Coffee Break French. We have renumbered the lessons of each season as lessons 1-40 to make things more simple for our listeners. Accessing the Premium Version   If you’d like to get more out of the materials, we offer an exclusive members’ version of the lesson which is twice the length of the free version and provides a line-by-line analysis of the language used, along with a version of the text read at normal speed. The members’ materials include a comprehensive transcript and lesson notes in pdf format which can be used on any computer, or ePub format, specially created for the iBooks app on the iPod Touch, iPhone or iPad.   * Season 3 Complete, lessons 300-340 (£89.00 GBP inc VAT / approx £109 USD ex VAT for non EU customers) * Season 3A, lessons 300-320 (£57.00 GBP inc VAT / approx $67 USD ex VAT for non EU customers) * Season 3B, lessons 320-340 (£57.00 GBP inc VAT / approx $67 USD ex VAT for non EU customers) Subscribe links Subscribe in iTunes | RSS Feed | Purchase members’ audio and transcripts   You may also be interested in Coffee Break French Season 3 on the iBookstore.

Welcome to this festive edition of Radio Lingua News. In this update we’ll be telling you about the fantastic milestone we reached this week, and explaining how you can save 25% on our premium memberships until the end of the year. 100 million downloads Early on Friday morning we clocked up our 100 millionth download. Over the past five years learners from around the world have downloaded our free language lessons and we’re delighted to have reached this amazing milestone. We’d like to thank all our listeners for continuing to enjoy our language lessons, and a special thank you to all our members who help to support all of our developments. Winter sale now on To celebrate this milestone we’ve launched our winter sale, so you can now get 25% off our memberships and premium versions of the courses. In most cases these premium versions include lesson guides in pdf or ebook format and extra audio or video content. All the courses available on our website can be purchased at this special reduced rate by using the coupon code winter2011 at checkout. The sale will continue until midnight on New Year’s Eve – or Hogmanay as we say in Scotland, so you still have almost two weeks to take advantage of these special prices, and get a head start on your language learning for 2012. Update on current shows The reaction to our new show for Spanish learners, Q&A Spanish, has been fantastic. We’re delighted that lots of you are now emailing us with your questions, or leaving voicemails so that we can include your questions in the show. JP and Nahyeli are enjoying answering your questions – even the difficult ones! If you’re learning Spanish and you’ve not yet listened to Q&A Spanish, you can find out more about the show, download the episodes, and find out how to contact us to ask your question at qandaspanish.com. We’re also really pleased with On Location French, our new video blog produced by Sophie in Paris. Sophie records her regular videos with a small camera and microphone all on her own in Paris and although we had some teething problems with sound, things are settling down now. She’s been including some really interesting phrases – and this week’s expression is a fantastic construction to add to your vocabulary! You can access On Location French on iTunes, Blip.TV or of course at onlocationfrench.com. Turning to our other courses, although we’ve had a delay with our new One Minute Languages series, we’re getting back on track and there will be new episodes out this week of our Dutch, Flemish and Arabic courses. As far as Coffee Break French is concerned, we’re now into the final eight lessons of Season 3 and in these episodes we’ll be going back through the texts used in this season and picking out some of the most important grammar points, then helping learners practise these constructions with a series of translation and dictation exercises. There will be lots of extra members-only content, so with our winter sale currently on, perhaps now is the time to take advantage of our special pricing. Happy holidays! Finally, we’d like to wish you all a very happy holiday season and hope that you get the chance to relax, spend time with your friends and family, enjoying everything that the festive season brings, and get the chance to work on your language – or put it into practice if you happen to be travelling! Don’t forget that you can join us in our Festive Phrases video series each day of December until the 25th to learn a festive greeting in a different language. Use the link on the home page of the Radio Lingua site to open each day of our linguistic Advent Calendar.

Coming up in this lesson: It’s time to listen to the final section of Katie’s diary which she has kept throughout her time spent in Nice. In this week’s lesson we’ll be hearing about her plans for the future and we’ll find out if these plans include Jérôme! Please note that lesson 32 of Season 3 was originally known as lesson 332 of Coffee Break French. We have renumbered the lessons of each season as lessons 1-40 to make things more simple for our listeners. Accessing the Premium Version   If you’d like to get more out of the materials, we offer an exclusive members’ version of the lesson which is twice the length of the free version and provides a line-by-line analysis of the language used, along with a version of the text read at normal speed. The members’ materials include a comprehensive transcript and lesson notes in pdf format which can be used on any computer, or ePub format, specially created for the iBooks app on the iPod Touch, iPhone or iPad.   * Season 3 Complete, lessons 300-340 (£89.00 GBP inc VAT / approx £109 USD ex VAT for non EU customers) * Season 3A, lessons 300-320 (£57.00 GBP inc VAT / approx $67 USD ex VAT for non EU customers) * Season 3B, lessons 320-340 (£57.00 GBP inc VAT / approx $67 USD ex VAT for non EU customers) Subscribe links Subscribe in iTunes | RSS Feed | Purchase members’ audio and transcripts   You may also be interested in Coffee Break French Season 3 on the iBookstore.

Coming up in this lesson: In this new edition of Coffee Break French we’ll be starting our farewells for Katie. We’ll cover the first part of her text in this lesson and then complete it in lesson 332. Please note that lesson 31 of Season 3 was originally known as lesson 331 of Coffee Break French. We have renumbered the lessons of each season as lessons 1-40 to make things more simple for our listeners. Accessing the Premium Version   If you’d like to get more out of the materials, we offer an exclusive members’ version of the lesson which is twice the length of the free version and provides a line-by-line analysis of the language used, along with a version of the text read at normal speed. The members’ materials include a comprehensive transcript and lesson notes in pdf format which can be used on any computer, or ePub format, specially created for the iBooks app on the iPod Touch, iPhone or iPad.   * Season 3 Complete, lessons 300-340 (£89.00 GBP inc VAT / approx £109 USD ex VAT for non EU customers) * Season 3A, lessons 300-320 (£57.00 GBP inc VAT / approx $67 USD ex VAT for non EU customers) * Season 3B, lessons 320-340 (£57.00 GBP inc VAT / approx $67 USD ex VAT for non EU customers) Subscribe links Subscribe in iTunes | RSS Feed | Purchase members’ audio and transcripts   You may also be interested in Coffee Break French Season 3 on the iBookstore.

It’s five years since we launched the first lesson of Coffee Break Spanish, and since then we’ve served up millions of language lessons to learners around the world through our podcasts, our enhanced lessons and our ebooks. We’re delighted today to announce five new courses, and we’ll also be letting you know about a few exciting projects which are due to be launched early in 2012. Spanish ¡Empecemos con el español! On the 18th October 2006 we began with Spanish, and we’re doing the same today. Today we’re delighted to launch a brand new Spanish show. When you’re learning a language on your own, or if you don’t have access to a teacher or a native speaker, it’s difficult to get the answers you need to help you make progress. We receive questions almost every day from learners through posts on the website, emails, voicemails, tweets and Facebook, and we decided that the best way to deal with all of these questions would be to launch Q&A Spanish: you ask the questions and we provide the answers. Q&A Spanish will be hosted by teacher and languages expert JP Villanueva and native Spanish speaker Nahyeli Mendivil, so you have the best of both worlds! Each week they’ll help you develop your confidence in Spanish further by providing tips and examples of Spanish vocabulary, usage and grammar. Q&A Spanish starts today, so you can already subscribe to the podcast. Click here to find out more about how you can take part in the show. French We’re also delighted to be announcing a brand new French video show. In On Location French you can join Sophie who is a UK student currently studying in Paris. She’s there for a year and she’s agreed to be our “correspondent”, bringing us weekly reports on interesting expressions she learns as she interacts with native speakers every day. Sophie will also be providing some cultural input as she gets to know the city, and we’re really looking forward to finding out more about her experiences in Paris in her weekly videoblog. Find out more and watch the episodes at the On Location French page. Dutch, Flemish and Arabic We’re delighted to be launching three new courses in our ever-popular One Minute Languages series. One of the most requested languages over the past few years has been Dutch, and we’ve decided to produce a Dutch and Flemish version of the course. Both languages are very similar – Flemish is the variety of Dutch spoken in Belgium, and of course Dutch is spoken in the Netherlands and in other countries around the world such as Suriname and Aruba. One Minute Dutch launches on Thursday 20th October and One Minute Flemish will be published on Fridays from 21st October. We’ve also been asked many times to produce an Arabic version of our One Minute Languages course. One Minute Arabic will run for ten weeks from tomorrow, Wednesday 19th October. We’re concentrating on Modern Standard Arabic which will ensure that as a learner you’ll be understood across the Arab world, from Casablanca to Kuwait. With these latest additions to the One Minute Languages series, we now cover 26 languages, from Arabic to Zulu making Radio Lingua your first stop for language-learning on the go, literally from A to Z! What’s coming down the line? There may be some of you who are looking forward to a third season of Coffee Break Spanish. We’re working on this at the moment and by the time the reruns of Show Time Spanish end in January we should be ready to go with Coffee Break Spanish Season 3.

Coming up in this lesson: It’s time for another lesson of Coffee Break French and this week we join Alf in his final text. He has been writing a diary over eight weeks while he has been renovating his new house in the south of France and attending daily French lessons with Veronica and Katie, the two other protagonists of our series. In this week’s text he tells us about the party he organised for his classmates. Please note that lesson 30 of Season 3 was originally known as lesson 330 of Coffee Break French. We have renumbered the lessons of each season as lessons 1-40 to make things more simple for our listeners. Accessing the Premium Version   If you’d like to get more out of the materials, we offer an exclusive members’ version of the lesson which is twice the length of the free version and provides a line-by-line analysis of the language used, along with a version of the text read at normal speed. The members’ materials include a comprehensive transcript and lesson notes in pdf format which can be used on any computer, or ePub format, specially created for the iBooks app on the iPod Touch, iPhone or iPad.   * Season 3 Complete, lessons 300-340 (£89.00 GBP inc VAT / approx £109 USD ex VAT for non EU customers) * Season 3A, lessons 300-320 (£57.00 GBP inc VAT / approx $67 USD ex VAT for non EU customers) * Season 3B, lessons 320-340 (£57.00 GBP inc VAT / approx $67 USD ex VAT for non EU customers) Subscribe links Subscribe in iTunes | RSS Feed | Purchase members’ audio and transcripts   You may also be interested in Coffee Break French Season 3 on the iBookstore. Accessing the Premium Version   If you’d like to get more out of the materials, we offer an exclusive members’ version of the lesson which is twice the length of the free version and provides a line-by-line analysis of the language used, along with a version of the text read at normal speed. The members’ materials include a comprehensive transcript and lesson notes in pdf format which can be used on any computer, or ePub format, specially created for the iBooks app on the iPod Touch, iPhone or iPad.   * Season 3 Complete, lessons 300-340 (£89.00 GBP inc VAT / approx £109 USD ex VAT for non EU customers) * Season 3A, lessons 300-320 (£57.00 GBP inc VAT / approx $67 USD ex VAT for non EU customers) * Season 3B, lessons 320-340 (£57.00 GBP inc VAT / approx $67 USD ex VAT for non EU customers) Subscribe links Subscribe in iTunes | RSS Feed | Purchase members’ audio and transcripts   You may also be interested in Coffee Break French Season 3 on the iBookstore.

Coming up in this lesson: In this latest lesson of Coffee Break French we’ll be joining Veronica and listening to her final text. She has been learning French in Nice along with Katie and Alf and in this final text she updates us on what she has been doing and tells us of some important decisions she has taken. Please note that lesson 29 of Season 3 was originally known as lesson 329 of Coffee Break French. We have renumbered the lessons of each season as lessons 1-40 to make things more simple for our listeners. Accessing the Premium Version   If you’d like to get more out of the materials, we offer an exclusive members’ version of the lesson which is twice the length of the free version and provides a line-by-line analysis of the language used, along with a version of the text read at normal speed. The members’ materials include a comprehensive transcript and lesson notes in pdf format which can be used on any computer, or ePub format, specially created for the iBooks app on the iPod Touch, iPhone or iPad.   * Season 3 Complete, lessons 300-340 (£89.00 GBP inc VAT / approx £109 USD ex VAT for non EU customers) * Season 3A, lessons 300-320 (£57.00 GBP inc VAT / approx $67 USD ex VAT for non EU customers) * Season 3B, lessons 320-340 (£57.00 GBP inc VAT / approx $67 USD ex VAT for non EU customers) Subscribe links Subscribe in iTunes | RSS Feed | Purchase members’ audio and transcripts   You may also be interested in Coffee Break French Season 3 on the iBookstore.

Coming up in this lesson: Lesson 28 of season 3 offers an analysis of the second part of Katie’s latest text. As usual, we’ll be covering a range of expressions and grammar points. The free version of this lesson includes the recording of Katie’s text along with explanations of the language she uses to help you understand the text. Please note that lesson 28 of Season 3 was originally known as lesson 328 of Coffee Break French. We have renumbered the lessons of each season as lessons 1-40 to make things more simple for our listeners. Accessing the Premium Version   If you’d like to get more out of the materials, we offer an exclusive members’ version of the lesson which is twice the length of the free version and provides a line-by-line analysis of the language used, along with a version of the text read at normal speed. The members’ materials include a comprehensive transcript and lesson notes in pdf format which can be used on any computer, or ePub format, specially created for the iBooks app on the iPod Touch, iPhone or iPad.   * Season 3 Complete, lessons 300-340 (£89.00 GBP inc VAT / approx £109 USD ex VAT for non EU customers) * Season 3A, lessons 300-320 (£57.00 GBP inc VAT / approx $67 USD ex VAT for non EU customers) * Season 3B, lessons 320-340 (£57.00 GBP inc VAT / approx $67 USD ex VAT for non EU customers) Subscribe links Subscribe in iTunes | RSS Feed | Purchase members’ audio and transcripts   You may also be interested in Coffee Break French Season 3 on the iBookstore.

Coming up in this lesson: In the long-awaited return to Coffee Break French we spend episode 27 of season 3 looking at the first part of Katie’s latest text in which she updates us on what’s she’s been getting up to in Nice. In this episode we’ll be looking at a variety of grammatical topics including the relative pronouns ce que and ce qui, and we’ll also consider some examples of the future perfect tense. The second part of Katie’s text will be analysed in the next lesson. Please note that lesson 27 of Season 3 was originally known as lesson 327 of Coffee Break French. We have renumbered the lessons of each season as lessons 1-40 to make things more simple for our listeners. Accessing the Premium Version   If you’d like to get more out of the materials, we offer an exclusive members’ version of the lesson which is twice the length of the free version and provides a line-by-line analysis of the language used, along with a version of the text read at normal speed. The members’ materials include a comprehensive transcript and lesson notes in pdf format which can be used on any computer, or ePub format, specially created for the iBooks app on the iPod Touch, iPhone or iPad.   * Season 3 Complete, lessons 300-340 (£89.00 GBP inc VAT / approx £109 USD ex VAT for non EU customers) * Season 3A, lessons 300-320 (£57.00 GBP inc VAT / approx $67 USD ex VAT for non EU customers) * Season 3B, lessons 320-340 (£57.00 GBP inc VAT / approx $67 USD ex VAT for non EU customers) Subscribe links Subscribe in iTunes | RSS Feed | Purchase members’ audio and transcripts   You may also be interested in Coffee Break French Season 3 on the iBookstore.

Coming up in this lesson: We return to Alf’s story this week on Coffee Break French and his wife, Jennifer, has finally arrived in France. Alf has been preparing for her arrival, both with the house renovations and he’s even learned to cook! As usual there are plenty of useful expressions and interesting grammar points in this week’s lesson. In addition, following many requests from our members, the extended version of this week’s lesson features an introduction to a new tense, the Past Historic, which is a narrative tense used in literary texts. Please note that lesson 26 of Season 3 was originally known as lesson 326 of Coffee Break French. We have renumbered the lessons of each season as lessons 1-40 to make things more simple for our listeners. Accessing the Premium Version   If you’d like to get more out of the materials, we offer an exclusive members’ version of the lesson which is twice the length of the free version and provides a line-by-line analysis of the language used, along with a version of the text read at normal speed. The members’ materials include a comprehensive transcript and lesson notes in pdf format which can be used on any computer, or ePub format, specially created for the iBooks app on the iPod Touch, iPhone or iPad.   * Season 3 Complete, lessons 300-340 (£89.00 GBP inc VAT / approx £109 USD ex VAT for non EU customers) * Season 3A, lessons 300-320 (£57.00 GBP inc VAT / approx $67 USD ex VAT for non EU customers) * Season 3B, lessons 320-340 (£57.00 GBP inc VAT / approx $67 USD ex VAT for non EU customers) Subscribe links Subscribe in iTunes | RSS Feed | Purchase members’ audio and transcripts   You may also be interested in Coffee Break French Season 3 on the iBookstore.

Coming up in this lesson: This week on Coffee Break French Veronica is feeling a bit down in the dumps: elle a le bourdon ce soir! She has been doing some thinking about her future and the fact that she is accro au travail – addicted to her work. This episode provides lots of examples of interesting grammar and vocabulary in use, and you’ll learn about question formation, reported speech and lots more! Please note that lesson 25 of Season 3 was originally known as lesson 325 of Coffee Break French. We have renumbered the lessons of each season as lessons 1-40 to make things more simple for our listeners. Accessing the Premium Version   If you’d like to get more out of the materials, we offer an exclusive members’ version of the lesson which is twice the length of the free version and provides a line-by-line analysis of the language used, along with a version of the text read at normal speed. The members’ materials include a comprehensive transcript and lesson notes in pdf format which can be used on any computer, or ePub format, specially created for the iBooks app on the iPod Touch, iPhone or iPad.   * Season 3 Complete, lessons 300-340 (£89.00 GBP inc VAT / approx £109 USD ex VAT for non EU customers) * Season 3A, lessons 300-320 (£57.00 GBP inc VAT / approx $67 USD ex VAT for non EU customers) * Season 3B, lessons 320-340 (£57.00 GBP inc VAT / approx $67 USD ex VAT for non EU customers) Subscribe links Subscribe in iTunes | RSS Feed | Purchase members’ audio and transcripts   You may also be interested in Coffee Break French Season 3 on the iBookstore.