Lesson 45 – Coffee Break Spanish

In lesson 45 Mark and Kara look further at making arrangements using the tricky Spanish verb quedar.

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Lesson 73 – Coffee Break French

In episode 73 of Coffee Break French our conversation between David, Christina and Jean-Jacques continues, and they are joined by Jean-Jacques’ wife, Sophie. Topics covered include the use of ça vous dirait de + infinitive to suggest an activity. We also take a look at negatives in the form of ne … pas and ne … jamais.

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RLN Club – Learn a language 04

In week four of our coaching course, it’s time to look at one of the key tools you need as a language-learner: the dictionary. We’ll give you seven key questions to ask yourself before you invest in the perfect dictionary to help you move forward in your learning. The content on this post is restricted to members of the Radio Lingua Club. If you’re already a member then you can access this by logging into your Control Panel and then returning to this page.

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Lesson 44 – Coffee Break Spanish

In lesson 44 Mark and Kara look at making arrangements and introduce the idea of irregular verbs, using ir (to go) and hacer (to do/make) as examples.

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Lesson 72 – Coffee Break French

In episode 72 of Coffee Break French we’ll hear the next instalment of the conversation between David, Christina and Jean-Jacques.

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Lesson 43 – Coffee Break Spanish

Lesson 43 introduces the concept of reflexive verbs and completes our teaching on talking about your daily routine.

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RLN Club – Learn a Language 03

This third episode of our “Learn a Language” will help you plan your time and set targets so that you can make more effective progress in your language-learning. There’s another pdf download for you this week.  The content on this post is restricted to members of the Radio Lingua Club. If you’re already a member then you can access this by logging into your Control Panel and then returning to this page.

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Radio Lingua’s Mark Pentleton at BETT

Radio Lingua Director Mark Pentleton is in London this week for BETT, the world’s largest educational technology event. Mark has been asked to do a number of workshops and presentations on developing educational resources using Apple’s iLife and iWork applications. In addition Mark will be running workshops at the International Apple Leadership seminar which is taking place alongside BETT. If you’re a teachers in the UK and you happen to be going along to BETT, please go and say hello to Mark on the Apple Education Reseller stand K16.

Mark has made his presentations available in the form of podcasts on his personal blog:

• Creating Revision Podcasts with Keynote and GarageBand
• Making use of free educational content for mobile devices

Lesson 42 – Coffee Break Spanish

Lesson 42 continues where we left off last time and looks further at conjugating verbs within the context of daily routine and making arrangements.

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Lesson 41 – Coffee Break Spanish

Lesson 41 introduces level 2 of Coffee Break Spanish. In level 1 we concentrated on learning useful words and phrases for a whole range of situations you’re likely to encounter on a trip to a Spanish-speaking part of the world. However, to a certain extent we’ve been concentrating on set phrases. In level 2 it’s now time to look more deeply at how the language is constructed, and you’ll learn to create the language yourself.

Episode 41 introduces the idea of verbs and you’ll learn to conjugate a verb in its six forms. You’ll be talking about what you do at the weekend, and answering the question ¿qué haces durante el fin de semana?

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Lesson 71 – Coffee Break French

One of the main things learners seem to be finding difficult is the idea of making conversation with people. It’s easy enough to order a coffee, or book into a hotel, and saying the words and phrases you’ve learned at the appropriate time is great, but sometimes it’s not enough. What happens when you ask a question and you receive 30 seconds of solid French in return? In the final ten lessons of Coffee Break French we’ve created something which we think will help you develop your range of language, and allow you to get more used to picking out the key words and phrases as you listen. We’re delighted to introduce this first episode in a series of ten shows which introduce a ‘radio play’, featuring Scottish couple “David” and “Christina”, who are on holiday in Villefranche, who meet up with Jean-Jacques and his wife Sophie. Each lesson will feature excerpts from the long conversation in which David and Christina get to know their new friends.

In this first episode, David and Christina get lost on the way to the Lion D’Or, a restaurant in Villefranche. They bump into Jean-Jacques who happens to be heading the same way and they end up going to the restaurant together. They chat on the way to the restaurant.

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RLN Club – Learn a Language 02

In this second episode of our “Learn a Language” coaching course, we’re looking at some of the basic tools which will help you in your learning. We provide a pdf download which you can use to help focus your vocabulary learning each day. The content on this post is restricted to members of the Radio Lingua Club. If you’re already a member then you can access this by logging into your Control Panel and then returning to this page.

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RLN Club – Learn a Language 01

Welcome to this course from Radio Lingua in which we’re going to be giving you some tips and advice on learning a language. Over the course of these weekly episodes we’ll provide you with a series of tips and ideas which you can put into practice straight away.

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