Season 3 – Lesson 01 – Coffee Break French

Welcome to the first lesson of Coffee Break French Season 3! In this episode listeners will meet American student Katie, Australian entrepreneur Veronica, and Alf who is a retired teacher from England. Our three characters are studying French at a language school in Nice, and in each episode you’ll hear an extract from their diaries, recounting their adventures on the French Riviera. We’ll pick up on a couple of language points in each lesson to help listeners understand the content. Please note that lesson 01 of Season 3 was originally known as lesson 301 of Coffee Break French. We have renumbered the lessons of each season as lessons 1-40 to make things more simple for our listeners.

Radio Lingua celebrates four years of language-learning

ad10-4thbirthdayOn 18th October 2006 a new Spanish course was released on iTunes. Coffee Break Spanish soon became one of the most popular ways to learn Spanish online. Since then we’ve grown and we now offer 33 courses in 23 languages, including two new languages added this week, Swedish and Ukrainian.

We’re also delighted to report that over the past four years our lessons have been downloaded over 80 million times by learners around the world – that’s around 55,000 downloads per day!

This week is a big week for Radio Lingua. We’ve been in London over the past few days exhibiting at the Language Show and later today (Monday) we’re launching our long-awaited new season of Coffee Break French. We’ll also be launching a new season of News Time Spanish later in the week, along with new One Minute Languages courses in Spanish, Latin American Spanish, Ukrainian and Swedish.

We’d like to take this opportunity to say thank you to all our listeners for continuing to support us by learning with our free courses, and a special merci / danke / gracias to our members who make it all possible. Here’s to many more years of language-learning with Radio Lingua!

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