There is great excitement here at Radio Lingua as we discovered this morning that Coffee Break Spanish is currently the second most popular podcast in the US according to iTunes. That’s second most popular of all podcasts, not just Education, and at the last count I heard that means 120,000 podcasts. The question is: will we reach number 1? It’s pretty impossible to know how far away we are from This American Life from Chicago Public Radio, but it would be fantastic to be #1, even just for a short while! We’ll keep you posted…
We were delighted to find out today that out of some 120,000 podcasts on iTunes, Coffee Break Spanish is currently at #3, after This American Life and Best of YouTube! It seems to be linked to the fact that the Learn a Language popup menu is currently on the front page of the podcasts section in iTunes – and also, of course, the fact that our content is the best!!
Thanks to everyone who continues to subscribe to the show.
Here are Radio Lingua we’re continuing to develop our range of services and for the past few months we’ve been supporting a number of projects within the education space in the UK and elsewhere in Europe. This week, Mark is in Strasbourg, France, working with a number of colleagues leading a student visit to the European Parliament. The students have been selected to represent their local area and are being sponsored to take part in this visit by Rotary International. The visit also receives funding from the European Parliament.
In addition to working with the other teachers who are supporting the visit, Mark is producing an on-going video and audio podcast with the students. The entire visit is being documented at www.euroscolaonline.com and you can subscribe to the video podcast in iTunes.
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In lesson 06 you’ll learn to introduce yourself and ask other people their names, a crucial step in making friends and getting to know native speakers.
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I’ve just spent the evening recording the latest in our One Minute Languages series in Sandefjord, Norway, with my good friend and former colleague, Norwegian teacher Dag Virik. We recorded the whole series tonight and will be releasing it in a couple of weeks’ time, so if you’re interested in picking up a “litt norsk”, (a little Norwegian) then we’ll be announcing a start date very soon.
In this final lesson of this stage of the course you’ll learn useful phrases such as “Merry Christmas”, “Happy Birthday” and “I love you” in the language.
According to the author of an article in one of today’s national newspapers, the secrets of learning a language as an adult are “an open mind … and a glass of red wine”! We’d certainly agree with that, and suggest that perhaps a coffee isn’t a bad idea either! Not least, as Coffee Break Spanish gets a mention as a recommended option for language-learning online. Read more on the Herald website.
RT @wispywinds: @emmamwoolley I like the podcast coffee break french. You can listen to it over time and individual episodes aren't supe ... 2012/04/04
For Spanish learners there's a new Q&A Spanish out now. http://t.co/3VpOS6G4 Subjunctive and llevar + time phrases :) 2012/04/03
@harlemlibrarian Hadn't realised that this was a problem. The feeds are now on http://t.co/NKhTnGQB instead - use http://t.co/Z6XXIJhv 2012/04/03
There is great excitement here at Radio Lingua as we discovered this morning that Coffee Break Spanish is currently the second most popular podcast in the US according to iTunes. That’s second most popular of all podcasts, not just Education, and at the last count I heard that means 120,000 podcasts. The question is: will we reach number 1? It’s pretty impossible to know how far away we are from This American Life from Chicago Public Radio, but it would be fantastic to be #1, even just for a short while! We’ll keep you posted…
We were delighted to find out today that out of some 120,000 podcasts on iTunes, Coffee Break Spanish is currently at #3, after This American Life and Best of YouTube! It seems to be linked to the fact that the Learn a Language popup menu is currently on the front page of the podcasts section in iTunes – and also, of course, the fact that our content is the best!! 
