One Minute Arabic

As we approach the end of 2014, Mark has recorded a special news podcast to look back at the past 12 months and to look forward to some of the exciting new content coming in 2015. Looking back 2014 has been an exciting year for us here at Radio Lingua. We’ve released 84 episodes across our range of courses including Coffee Break French Season 4, our new Coffee Break Spanish Espresso and Coffee Break German which has just finished its first season. We’ve also introduced our new gameshow, the Coffee Break French and Coffee Break Spanish Two Minute Challenges. In 2014 we have delivered over 16 million free language lessons to our learners around the world, bringing the total number of free language lessons delivered since we started back in 2006 to over 155 million! We hope you’ve enjoyed learning one of the 26 languages we offer! High Five French Family Edition This year we’ve also introduced our French course for younger learners, High Five French, featuring presenters Emma and Mathilde. High Five French has been popular in schools throughout the UK and we’ve just released the Family Edition of High Five French, so if you have children or grandchildren who would like to learn French with this fantastic video resource, you can find out more here. Early in the New Year we’ll be offering some free High Five French audio lessons – there’s more information in the news podcast, and you can learn more about High Five French here. If you’re interested in using High Five French in a school, please visit our Schools page. Coffee Break Spanish Season 4 We’ve also announced our fourth season of Coffee Break Spanish. From January 2015 you can join presenters Mark and Carmen as they follow a serialised story featuring a range of characters from around the Spanish-speaking world. This show has been specially created to help advanced learners of Spanish build their confidence in tricky grammatical constructions and increase their range of idiomatic expressions. Find out more  about Season 4 here. Coffee Break Italian We’re also introducing a new series for Italian learners. In January 2015 we’ll be launching Coffee Break Italian. The forty lessons of this first season will introduce learners to the language and you’ll start to develop confidence in using the language in a variety of situations. Mark takes on the role of teacher for Coffee Break Italian and is joined by learner Katie and native speaker Francesca. There’s more information about Coffee Break Italian here. Mark’s learning Swedish As we move into a new year it’s the perfect time to start learning a new language or to commit to improving your existing language skills. Mark is making his own New Year’s Resolution to learn Swedish and will be keeping a blog of his experiences. You can follow his adventures here. Our Sale is still on Finally, don’t forget that our End Of Year Sale is still on and you can save 15% on all our courses with coupon code WINTER2014. This includes the option to preorder Coffee Break Spanish Season 4 and Coffee Break Italian. You can check out the terms and conditions here.

This is a short message from Radio Lingua to update you on developments and to send all of our listeners our warmest wishes for the festive season. First of all, we’ve been extremely busy assembling the various parts of the Coffee Break German course. Coffee Break German will be aimed at complete beginners in the language and, following the well-loved relaxed but structured Coffee Break style, we’ll be teaching German in weekly episodes, starting on 23rd January 2013. The whole Coffee Break German team are very excited about the launch and Mark is looking forward to picking up German along with the listeners! We’re coming to the end of the first season of the Coffee Break Spanish Magazine. The Magazine features interviews with native speakers, tips on idiomatic Spanish and a question and answer section and it has gone down extremely well with our listeners. In particular the video interviews have received great reviews and we’ll be planning to add more video content to our language courses in the future. We’re working hard on more Magazine content – not just for Spanish – and we’ll announce more news about this in the new year. If you’re interested in the premium version of the Magazine which gives you access to these videos – or indeed the premium version of any of our language courses, then you may be interested to know that we’re currently in the middle of our Winter Sale. It ends at one minute to midnight UK time on the 31st December – or Hogmanay as we call it in Scotland – so don’t miss out on getting a head start on your language learning in 2013. There’s more information about the sale at https://radiolingua.com/sale including the coupon code that you need to use to get your discount. Finally, if you’re still trying to think up a last-minute gift for you friends or family members, you may be interested in our new gift memberships: you can buy a friend a membership to many of our courses. It’s really straightforward – simply purchase a gift membership and we’ll send you a printable gift certificate which contains all the details to allow your language-loving friend to have free access to the course materials. Find out more at https://radiolingua.com/gift/. The audio version of this news broadcast is provided below along with download links. In addition to the information, Mark has also included a special rendition of one of his favourite pieces of festive music. He’s performed this himself on the piano, so we hope you enjoy it!

Radio Lingua Founder and CEO introduces the Coffee Break Spanish Magazine, Coffee Break French and Spanish iBooks, our new On Location Languages blog series, changes and improvements to the website and a new Coffee Break language in this special launch video.

In this final lesson of our series you’ll learn some common phrases requested by learners when learning Arabic including “good luck”, “happy birthday” and “I love you”! These audio lessons are available free to download from our site and on iTunes. See the links below to subscribe to the podcast in iTunes and receive all future episodes as soon as they are available. In the next couple of weeks we’ll launch the premium version of the show which features video versions and lesson notes.         iTunes link | RSS feed

In lesson 9 of One Minute Arabic you’ll learn to ask the question “how are you?” and to answer it both positively and negatively. These audio lessons are available free to download from our site and on iTunes. See the links below to subscribe to the podcast in iTunes and receive all future episodes as soon as they are available. In the next couple of weeks we’ll launch the premium version of the show which features video versions and lesson notes.     iTunes link | RSS feed

It’s time to learn to count from 1 to 10 in Arabic – and you’ll learn that the word for “zero” in Arabic may be familiar to you! These audio lessons are available free to download from our site and on iTunes. See the links below to subscribe to the podcast in iTunes and receive all future episodes as soon as they are available. In the next couple of weeks we’ll launch the premium version of the show which features video versions and lesson notes.     iTunes link | RSS feed

In this lesson of our course you’ll learn how to say “it’s nice to meet you” in Arabic. You’ll also learn a phrase which will help you to make friends and improve your language skills! These audio lessons are available free to download from our site and on iTunes. See the links below to subscribe to the podcast in iTunes and receive all future episodes as soon as they are available. In the next couple of weeks we’ll launch the premium version of the show which features video versions and lesson notes.     iTunes link | RSS feed

Lesson 6 of One Minute Arabic focuses on introducing yourself. You’ll learn how to say “my name is …” and also to ask other people “what is your name?” In Arabic there are different versions of this question, depending on whether you’re asking a male or a female. Mourad will explain everything! These audio lessons are available free to download from our site and on iTunes. See the links below to subscribe to the podcast in iTunes and receive all future episodes as soon as they are available. In the next couple of weeks we’ll launch the premium version of the show which features video versions and lesson notes.     iTunes link | RSS feed

In this week’s lesson of One Minute Arabic you’ll learn how to say that you’re learning Arabic. It’s a tricky phrase, especially because it is very similar to the phrase for “I speak Arabic”. Listen carefully to Mourad’s instructions! These audio lessons are available free to download from our site and on iTunes. See the links below to subscribe to the podcast in iTunes and receive all future episodes as soon as they are available. In the next couple of weeks we’ll launch the premium version of the show which features video versions and lesson notes.     iTunes link | RSS feed

In the fourth lesson of One Minute Arabic you will learn how to deal with language problems in Arabic and say that you don’t understand something. These audio lessons are available free to download from our site and on iTunes. See the links below to subscribe to the podcast in iTunes and receive all future episodes as soon as they are available. In the next couple of weeks we’ll launch the premium version of the show which features video versions and lesson notes.     iTunes link | RSS feed

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.

In the third episode of One Minute Arabic you’ll learn how to say that you speak a little Arabic. These audio lessons are available free to download from our site and on iTunes. See the links below to subscribe to the podcast in iTunes and receive all future episodes as soon as they are available. In the next couple of weeks we’ll launch the premium version of the show which features video versions and lesson notes.     iTunes link | RSS feed

It’s time for the second lesson in the series of One Minute Arabic in which you will learn some basic words you’ll use every day when learning Arabic. These audio lessons are available free to download from our site and on iTunes. See the links below to subscribe to the podcast in iTunes and receive all future episodes as soon as they are available. In the next couple of weeks we’ll launch the premium version of the show which features video versions and lesson notes.     iTunes link | RSS feed

In this first lesson of One Minute Arabic, Mourad will teach you how to say “hello” and “goodbye” in Modern Standard Arabic. These audio lessons are available free to download from our site and on iTunes. See the links below to subscribe to the podcast in iTunes and receive all future episodes as soon as they are available. In the next couple of weeks we’ll launch the premium version of the show which features video versions and lesson notes.     iTunes link | RSS feed

Arabic is spoken by approximately 300 million people worldwide and it’s the official language of 26 countries! We’re delighted to introduce this course in Modern Standard Arabic, a variety of the language which is understood throughout the Arab world, from Casablanca to Kuwait! In weekly lessons of just a few minutes you can join Arabic language specialist Mourad and learn basic Arabic every Wednesday from 19th October for ten weeks. Listen to the promo by clicking on the play button below, or use the download link to download the episode to your computer or play it on your device.     iTunes link | RSS feed