Coffee Break Spanish

Coming up in this week’s edition of the Coffee Break Magazine: Alba asks, si esta noche tuvieras una cita a ciegas, ¿qué estarías haciendo ahora mismo? – if you had a blind date tonight, what would you be doing right now? Mark joins Fernanda on a virtual tour of La Riviera Maya in Mexico; and JP and Nahyeli answer a very interesting question from listener Steve about using ser or estar with food. The free version of the audio programme for this episode is available through the links and audio players below. Get more out of your Coffee Break Spanish Magazine experience The Coffee Break Spanish Magazine is much more than just our free audio show. Our premium edition offers the following bonuses: Extended audio show featuring a line-by-line analysis of the interview questions; Exclusive video versions of the interview segments filmed live on location (HD and SD versions); Comprehensive lesson...

Coming up in this week’s edition of the Coffee Break Magazine: Alba asks, ¿a quién admiras más en el mundo? – whom do you admire most in the world? Mark joins Fernanda on a virtual tour of Havana; and JP and Nahyeli answer listener Jessica’s question about how to translate “something else altogether”. The free version of the audio programme for this episode is available through the links and audio players below. Get more out of your Coffee Break Spanish Magazine experience The Coffee Break Spanish Magazine is much more than just our free audio show. Our premium edition offers the following bonuses: Extended audio show featuring a line-by-line analysis of the interview questions; Exclusive video versions of the interview segments filmed live on location (HD and SD versions); Comprehensive lesson notes including full transcripts and vocabulary guides. You can access the premium edition for just...

We’re back with another edition of the Coffee Break Spanish Magazine. In this episode: Alba asks, ¿qué es para ti el verano? – what does summer mean to you? Mark joins Fernanda on a virtual tour of the Dominican Republic; and JP and Nahyeli answer a listener’s question about the use of the imperfect and perfect subjunctive. The free version of the audio programme for this episode is available through the links and audio players below. Get more out of your Coffee Break Spanish Magazine experience The Coffee Break Spanish Magazine is much more than just our free audio show. Our premium edition offers the following bonuses: Extended audio show featuring a line-by-line analysis of the interview questions; Exclusive video versions of the interview segments filmed live on location (HD and SD versions); Comprehensive lesson notes including full transcripts and vocabulary guides. You can access the...

We’re back with another edition of the Coffee Break Spanish Magazine. In this episode: Alba asks, ¿adónde te irás de vacaciones este verano? – where will you be going on holiday this summer? Mark joins Fernanda on a virtual tour of Venezuela; and JP and Nahyeli answer Richard’s question about the difference between el mismo and lo mismo. The free version of the audio programme for this episode is available through the links and audio players below. Get more out of your Coffee Break Spanish Magazine experience The Coffee Break Spanish Magazine is much more than just our free audio show. Our premium edition offers the following bonuses: Extended audio show featuring a line-by-line analysis of the interview questions; Exclusive video versions of the interview segments filmed live on location (HD and SD versions); Comprehensive lesson notes including full transcripts and vocabulary...

Welcome to this latest edition of the Coffee Break Spanish Magazine. In this episode: Alba asks, ¿qué ves cuando miras en el espejo? – what do you see when you look in the mirror? Mark joins Fernanda on a virtual tour of Bogotá, Colombia; and JP and Nahyeli answer a question from listener Georgie about the pronunciation of ‘b’ and ‘v’. The free version of the audio programme for this episode is available through the links and audio players below. Get more out of your Coffee Break Spanish Magazine experience The Coffee Break Spanish Magazine is much more than just our free audio show. Our premium edition offers the following bonuses: Extended audio show featuring a line-by-line analysis of the interview questions; Exclusive video versions of the interview segments filmed live on location (HD and SD versions); Comprehensive lesson notes including full transcripts and vocabulary guides. You can...

Welcome to this latest edition of the Coffee Break Spanish Magazine. In this episode: Alba asks, ¿cómo te describiría tu mejor amigo o amiga? – how would your best friend describe you? Mark joins Fernanda on a virtual tour of Machu Picchu in Peru; and JP and Nahyeli answer a question from listener Ezgi who is curious about how best to translate “to love” in its many uses into Spanish. The free version of the audio programme for this episode is available through the links and audio players below. Get more out of your Coffee Break Spanish Magazine experience The Coffee Break Spanish Magazine is much more than just our free audio show. Our premium edition offers the following bonuses: Extended audio show featuring a line-by-line analysis of the interview questions; Exclusive video versions of the interview segments filmed live on location (HD and SD versions); Comprehensive lesson notes including full...

After a short delay we’re back with a new episode of the Coffee Break Spanish Magazine. In this episode: Alba asks, ¿qué es lo primero que has pensado esta mañana? – what was the first thing you thought about this morning? Mark joins Fernanda on a virtual tour of Easter Island; and JP and Nahyeli answer a question from listener Iván who wants to know about the nuances of using the immediate future tense (voy a mandar una carta) or the simple future tense (mandaré una carta). The free version of the audio programme for this episode is available through the links and audio players below. Get more out of your Coffee Break Spanish Magazine experience The Coffee Break Spanish Magazine is much more than just our free audio show. Our premium edition offers the following bonuses: Extended audio show featuring a line-by-line analysis of the interview questions; Exclusive video versions of the interview segments filmed...

We’re back with a new season of the Coffee Break Spanish Magazine. In this episode: Alba asks, ¿qué te llevarías a una isla desierta? – what would you take to a desert island? Fernanda tells Mark all about the the city of Buenos Aires; and JP and Nahyeli answer an interesting question about a word which listener Rodney has come across in a Mexican soap opera! The free version of the audio programme for this episode is available through the links and audio players below. Get more out of your Coffee Break Spanish Magazine experience The Coffee Break Spanish Magazine is much more than just our free audio show. Our premium edition offers the following bonuses: Extended audio show featuring a line-by-line analysis of the interview questions; Exclusive video versions of the interview segments filmed live on location (HD and SD versions); Comprehensive lesson notes including full transcripts and vocabulary...

We’re back with a new season of the Coffee Break Spanish Magazine. In this episode: Alba asks the question, ¿cuál es tu forma favorita de ligar? – what’s your best chat-up line? JP and Nahyeli answer a question from listener Jess about using quantities in Spanish; and we’re introducing a new member of the team – Mark is joined by Fernanda from Chile for the first leg of a journey around the tourist highlights of Latin America. The free version of the audio programme for this episode is available through the links and audio players below. Get more out of your Coffee Break Spanish Magazine experience The Coffee Break Spanish Magazine is much more than just our free audio show. Our premium edition offers the following bonuses: Extended audio show featuring a line-by-line analysis of the interview questions; Exclusive video versions of the interview segments filmed live on location (HD and SD versions); Comprehensive...

Apologies for the delayed publication of this episode which is due to a technical problem we’ve had with the site over the past week. We’ve been publishing a daily word on Facebook and Twitter and each day we’ve asked our Facebook friends and Twitter followers to post a comment using the word of the day, thereby practising their language skills. Last week our theme was eating out in restaurants and as usual the Radio Lingua community has come up with some excellent examples of this week’s words: la cuenta, la carta, el postre, pedir and reservar. Friend us on Facebook | Follow us on Twitter |

We’ve been publishing a daily word on Facebook and Twitter and each day we’ve asked our Facebook friends and Twitter followers to post a comment using the word of the day, thereby practising their language skills. Last week our theme was love, in honour of St Valentine’s Day, and as usual the Radio Lingua community has come up with some excellent examples of this week’s words: enamorarse, las flores, una cita, el amor and un beso. Friend us on Facebook | Follow us on Twitter | iTunes link

We’ve added a new feature to our website and Facebook pages: if you have a microphone or webcam connected to your computer, you can leave us a voice message easily by clicking on the “Send us a voice message” on the right hand side of the screen. Please note that for the time being this […]

We’ve been publishing a daily word on Facebook and Twitter and each day we’ve asked our Facebook friends and Twitter followers to post a comment using the word of the day, thereby practising their language skills. This week we’ve been talking about buying things and as usual the Radio Lingua community has come up with some excellent examples of this week’s words: comprar, la talla, el precio, hacer un cambio, and el recibo. Friend us on Facebook | Follow us on Twitter | iTunes link

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...

This is an important announcement for all Coffee Break Spanish Magazine listeners. When we first launched the magazine we were publishing the magazine episodes both on the main Coffee Break Spanish feed and on the new Coffee Break Spanish Magazine feed, meaning that anyone subscribed to Coffee Break Spanish would automatically receive the first few editions of the magazine. However this was just to give listeners a taste of what the magazine would offer. For the past few weeks we’ve been publishing episode of the magazine only on the Coffee Break Spanish Magazine feed and we want to make sure that you’re not missing out on these new episodes. If you’ve not already done so, we need you to go over to iTunes and subscribe to the Coffee Break Spanish Magazine feed. You can click on this link, or simply search for Coffee Break Spanish Magazine in iTunes. Don’t forget...