Lesson 03 – Coffee Break Spanish
Posted on November 1, 2008
In lesson 03 you’ll learn how to talk about where you come from.
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Jun 22, 2009
What a wonderful resource! I took 6 years of Spanish in school and graduated with a meager ability with the language. This podcasts are organized in a much more effective way!
Jul 16, 2009
I purchased the premium membership and downloaded everything in CBS1 with itunes, started working my way through it…so far so good.
Have to say though I didn’t really like the relaxation/hypnosis format for the extra top-off on lesson 03 (only available to members). Can it be re-mastered in a more normal format?
thanks!
-gary
Jul 17, 2009
Gary, we can’t remaster these lessons in a different format. However, only a few of the extra lessons use the relaxation format – others use music, and as the course progresses, the style changes. Thanks for your comments so far.
Jul 17, 2009
And @Katie, thanks for your comments! We hope you continue to enjoy the shows.
Sep 01, 2009
I became a platinum member yesterday but cant work out how to download the lesson guides. I have the worksheet for lessons 1 – 5 and the answer sheet and the word list but not the lesson guides Please help me find where and how to download them Thanks Bev
Oct 09, 2009
is there anyway i can download these and out them on my mp3 player.
when i click the downlaod it just opens up windows media player.
please help
Oct 26, 2009
I’ll second this: is there anyway i can download these and out them on my mp3 player.
when i click the downlaod it just opens up windows media player.
please help
Oct 29, 2009
Just right-click on the “download” link underneath the podcast player and you can download the episode to disc and then put them on your mp3 player using whatever software or process you normally use to transfer mp3 files.
Nov 01, 2009
it is quite interesting. I just learn three lessons, but it looks easy to learn as i could understand easily.
Dec 01, 2009
This is so cool i use to be rubbish at spanish but now i got a star in my gcse!!!! all hail this website!!loool
Dec 16, 2009
Hello, first of all, thank you so much for this, I am learning spanich so easy this way
I would like to read wile I listen, is there anyway I can see the text as I listen to it? or at least se the words listed to easear remember them.
Dec 16, 2009
Hi Kenneth. We’re glad you’re enjoying the course. All the texts and notes on our lessons are available as part of the premium version of Coffee Break Spanish. Prices start at £27 GBP for the notes for all 40 lessons of level 1. FInd out more on the Coffee Break Spanish information page. Don’t forget our winter sale is on too so you can get 25% off the price using coupon code holidays09. Hope this helps. MVH, Mark
Dec 16, 2009
excellent pace and amount of repetition. no need for regular pausing and rewind. nice to know where usted comes from.
Dec 19, 2009
loving every bit of it..done 3 lessons..can’t find the 4th one..please help..
Dec 21, 2009
@richie – Thanks!
@dhruv – you can access all our lessons via our Step-by-Step Guide:
http://radiolingua.com/2009/08/introducing-coffee-break-spanish-step-by-step/
Feb 23, 2010
hola it is brilliant now i can talk to my granddad because he is spanish
i give it 10 out of 10
Aug 29, 2010
I can not understand that there are two different ways to say my name in Spanish: mi nombre es and cormo de Jamo?
Aug 31, 2010
@Mary you can say ‘mi nombre es…’ – literally ‘my name is…’ and you can also use ‘me llamo…’ which literally means ‘I am called…’, so there are two different ways to say the same thing in English too.
Oct 05, 2010
lovely i learnt so much so far i want more please
Nov 06, 2010
Brilliant course but why have you left out Wales?
Nov 09, 2010
How do i say i love you in spanish. i really need help
Dec 13, 2010
This episode was absolutely great but I think that since I am only 12 I would find it easier to loearn if they had a video showing pictures and colours etc. Soy Keniata Donde Eres?
Dec 14, 2010
best wishes from Germany and feliz navidad y un prospero ano nuevo para todos! It’s nice to fresh up my English by learning the spanish language. Queremos mas, por favor!
Jan 30, 2011
I’m 64yrs old and trying to learn a little spanish as my grandaughter, son and daughter-in-law live in Peru. This a lovely way to learn.
Apr 21, 2011
‘Usted’ in Spanish actually has Arabic origin. It is ‘ustaz’ which means ‘Mr.’ and as ‘usted’ in Spanish is used as the formal way to say ‘you’ to someone who is older or being polite with a stranger, then ‘Mr.’ is better than just ‘you’.
Sep 08, 2011
I think that “Usted” is an abbreviation of “Vuestra Merced”:
Vst ..ed.
Nov 08, 2011
I am only 10 but understand these lessons completely!!!!!!!
I use to take spanish in 4th grade, but have learned more
spanish than I did in that whole year of spanish class.
THANKYOU COFFE BREAK SPANISH.
P.S- I don’t take coffe breaks but I do take hot chocolate
breaks.
Nov 12, 2011
I think learning a language through podcasts is the most ludicrous idea ever!! Especially if hosts are not speaking in your target language for the most part of the podcast!