One Minute Catalan has been featured on the Catalan digital news site Vilaweb, outlining the background to the One Minute series and providing details on the launch of One Minute Catalan which took place at PodCamp Barcelona last Friday. Si parles català, pots llegir l’article aquí. I si no, doncs hi ha un podcast que pots utilitzar per a aprendre’l! (If you speak Catalan you can read the article here, if not there’s a very good podcast you can use to learn
Hola – hello! Welcome to One Minute Catalan from the Radio Lingua Network. In this podcast we’re going to be teaching you the basics of Catalan. The great thing about this language course is that you’ll be learning all you need to know in just 60 seconds – or thereabouts! Each one-minute language lesson will equip you with just enough Catalan to help you get by in lots of situations, either on holiday, or on a business trip to a Catalan-speaking area. One thing’s for sure: you’ll be guaranteed to impress native Catalan speakers by speaking their language! Our course will be broadcast on Fridays, starting 26 September. In the meantime, visit our website on http://www.oneminutelanguages.com
ShowTime Spanish is the new podcast from the Radio Lingua Network. If you’ve followed the Coffee Break Spanish course, you’re ready to put your Spanish to use in real situations, and with ShowTime Spanish you’ll continue to learn in the same relaxed way, increasing your range of expression, mastering the grammar, and developing your confidence so that you can use the language when you need to.
ShowTime Spanish launches on 18 October 2008, but you can already subscribe to the feed in iTunes. In the run-up to the launch, we’ll be telling you more about what you can expect from the show and introducing you to some of the people who will be involved.
It’s time to step up to the mic! Break a leg, take a bow – it’s Show Time!
In celebration of the European Day of Languages we’re delighted to announce six new podcasts in the One Minute languages series. You can now learn Catalan (web | iTunes), Danish (web | iTunes), French (web | iTunes), Japanese (web | iTunes), Mandarin (web | iTunes) and Romanian (web | iTunes) in a matter of minutes with our weekly episodes. And if you’re aiming to be a real polyglot then you can tune in every day to a new language (with one day off to review everthing you’ve learned!) Catalan begins on Friday 26th September, Romanian on Saturday 27th, Mandarin on Monday 29th, Danish on Tuesday 30th, Japanese on Wednesday 1st October and French on Thursday 2nd.
One of the most common requests we receive is for materials aimed at English learners from around the world and we’re delighted to announce today that Write Back Soon, a new podcast aimed at intermediate English learners, will launch on 10th October. In Write Back Soon, experienced English teacher Gerry will help listeners get to grips with their Phrasal Verbs – something which English learners traditionally find very difficult. More details will be available in the coming weeks.
こんにちは – konnichi wa – hello! Welcome to One Minute Japanese from the Radio Lingua Network. In this podcast we’re going to be teaching you the basics of Japanese. The great thing about this language course is that you’ll be learning all you need to know in just 60 seconds – or thereabouts! Each one-minute language lesson will equip you with just enough Japanese to help you get by in lots of situations, either on holiday, or on a business trip to Japan. One thing’s for sure: you’ll be guaranteed to impress native Japanese speakers by speaking their language! Our course will be broadcast on Wednesdays, starting 1 October. In the meantime, visit our website on http://www.oneminutelanguages.com
你好 – Nǐ hǎo – hello! Welcome to One Minute Mandarin from the Radio Lingua Network. In this podcast we’re going to be teaching you the basics of Mandarin Chinese. The great thing about this language course is that you’ll be learning all you need to know in just 60 seconds – or thereabouts! Each one-minute language lesson will equip you with just enough Mandarin to help you get by in lots of situations, either on holiday, or on a business trip to China. One thing’s for sure: you’ll be guaranteed to impress native Mandarin speakers by speaking their language! Our course will be broadcast on Mondays, starting 29 September. In the meantime, visit our website on http://www.oneminutelanguages.com
Bonjour – hello! Welcome to One Minute French from the Radio Lingua Network. In this podcast we’re going to be teaching you the basics of French. The great thing about this language course is that you’ll be learning all you need to know in just 60 seconds – or thereabouts! Each one-minute language lesson will equip you with just enough French to help you get by in lots of situations, either on holiday, or on a business trip to a French-speaking area. Our course will be broadcast on Thursdays, starting 2 October. In the meantime, visit our website on http://www.oneminutelanguages.com
Hej – hello! Welcome to One Minute Danish from the Radio Lingua Network. In this podcast we’re going to be teaching you the basics of Danish. The great thing about this language course is that you’ll be learning all you need to know in just 60 seconds – or thereabouts! Each one-minute language lesson will equip you with just enough Danish to help you get by in lots of situations, either on holiday, or on a business trip to Denmark. One thing’s for sure: you’ll be guaranteed to impress native Danish speakers by speaking their language! Our course will be broadcast on Tuesdays, starting 30 September. In the meantime, visit our website on http://www.oneminutelanguages.com
This week, we are continuing our series of dialogues recorded in France. Anna is not feeling too well so we take a trip to the pharmacy to get something to make her feel better.
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We recently invited you to nominate Coffee Break Spanish for a European Podcast Awards, and it must be the seaon for all the awards at the moment, as the international podcast awards have just been announced. Listeners are invited to vote for their favourite podcasts in a number of categories, and, of course, we’d be very happy if you would consider voting Coffee Break Spanish as your favourite Education podcast.
To do so, you need to go to http://www.podcastawards.com and enter “Coffee Break Spanish” in the education category. The url require for the website is http://www.coffeebreakspanish.com (but you probably knew that!). This is the nomination stage: as far as we know a jury will consider the various submissions and shortlist a number of podcasts. At that point it’s a free-for-all as everyone can vote daily for their favourite podcast! We’ll let you know if and when we reach that stage. In the meantime you should be aware that you can only submit one entry, so make sure you list your other favourite podcasts in other categories on the same form.
You can also choose to submit Coffee Break Spanish for the People’s Choice Award if you feel that this is appropriate.
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
