In this week’s show we’re returning to our telenovela, Verano Español. It’s the morning after the night before when Ángel arrived drunk at Iona’s party. Needless to say Laura’s dad isn’t very impressed with Ángel! Laura’s friend Fiona arrives from Scotland and the love triangle threatens to become a square! As usual, in Act II, Mark will help listeners understand the story by working through a series of questions and answers about what happens in this episode.
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In lesson 35, Mark and Kara are at the tourist information office asking about what there is to do in Santiago de la Ribera.
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In Lesson 67 we’re building on the verbal constructions we’ve been learning over the past few weeks and introducing the phrase après avoir fait quelque chose. This lesson also explains what happens when an être verb is used with this construction.
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We’ve been receiving emails from listeners over the weekend mentioning the fact that a number of you have had problems purchasing our courses over the weekend. There appears to be a technical problem in the purchasing process and we’re doing our best to get this solved as quickly as possible.
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After our recent server problems, we’re back with Show Time Spanish! We’re staying in Mexico in episode 34 of Show Time as Mark and Juan discuss some of the interesting aspects of Mexican Spanish. ¡Todo está padrísimo en este episodio! Language points covered include pedir a alguien que + subjunctive, the expression referirse a, and llevarse a cabo. José’s intermedio concentrates on phrases which involve being angry or in a bad mood.
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It’s a beautiful morning and Mark and Kara are joined by Kara’s mother and another tourist on the balcony of the hotel for breakfast. Topics covered include forming plural and singular verbs in the formal form.
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Things have been a bit quiet here at Radio Lingua over the past week or so, and this has been due to a number of things – our team’s other commitments and a problem with the podcast feed engine. We’ve now updated Coffee Break Spanish episode 33 and Coffee Break French episode 66, but unfortunately there is a bug with the podcast feed. We’ve submitted support queries to the companies we use for podcast hosting and feed generation and are waiting on them getting back to us. We’ll keep you posted with this and update the feeds as soon as possible. In the meantime you can listen to the episodes on the site. Apologies for any inconvenience caused.
(Show Time Spanish episode 34 is due very soon!)
In Lesson 66 we’re covering two constructions which will help to increase your range of expression: venir de faire quelque chose (to have just done something) and avant de faire quelque chose (before doing something).
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In lesson 33 we revisit the language learned in earlier lessons for booking into a hotel. Having arrived in Santiago de la Ribera, Kara takes on the role of “Jane Johnston” who needs to check into the hotel.
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We receive many emails from teachers asking how schools can access our materials and we’ve been doing lots of work recently working with groups of young people using podcasts and other forms of digital creativity in the languages classroom. We’ve decided to package this together and launch a new website aimed specifically at schools.
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