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…
Month: February 2008
Lesson 08 – One Minute German
In lesson 08 of One Minute German you’ll learn to count from 1-10.
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Lesson 07 – One Minute Russian
In lesson 07 you’ll learn to say that it’s nice to meet people. You’ll also learn to ask people to help you with your Russian.
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Radio Lingua supporting the Euroscola visit, reporting live from Strasbourg, France
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.
Lesson 07 – One Minute German
In lesson 07 you’ll learn to say it’s nice to meet people, and to ask people for some help learning German.
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Season 1 – Lesson 15 – Coffee Break French
In this lesson you’ll learn to order drinks in a café. In addition to building your vocabulary for common drinks in French, you’ll also learn the structures used to ask for things. You’ll quickly find how easy it is to reuse these structures in other situations, and before long you’ll be ready to order a coffee, a mineral water and lots more!
Lesson 06 – One Minute Russian
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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Season 1 – Lesson 14 – Coffee Break French
In this episode we’re continuing with the topic from last week’s lesson as we’re talking about the town. You’ll learn to talk about your town and describe what it has to offer.
Lesson 06 – One Minute German
In lesson 06 you’ll learn to introduce yourself and to ask other people their names.
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Lesson 05 – One Minute Russian
In this lesson you’ll continue to impress your Russian-speaking friends by saying you’re learning Russian, and that it’s quite difficult!
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Radio Lingua på norsk
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.
Image originally uploaded by Petter Nordby.
Lesson 10 – One Minute Irish
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.
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Lesson 05 – One Minute German
In this lesson you will learn to say that you’re learning German, and that you find it quite difficult.
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Lesson 04 – One Minute Russian
Having learned to say that you speak a little Russian in lesson 03, the chances are that Russian speakers will be so delighted to hear you speaking Russian they’ll start talking to you in fast Russian. In lesson 04 of One Minute Russian you’ll be learning the crucial phrase “I don’t understand”.
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Season 1 – Lesson 13 – Coffee Break French
In this episode, you’ll learn to ask for directions. We’ll teach you how to ask where places in the town are and understand the words for “where”, “here” and “there”.
Lesson 09 – One Minute Irish
In lesson 09 you’ll learn to ask the question “how are you?” and give appropriate answers, depending on your mood.
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