After a few very busy weeks we've been working very hard to bring you a number of delayed items in both Coffee Break French and Coffee Break Spanish. Both CBS and CBF are now fully up to date including the bonus content for CBS 45 and CBF 06. The audio extra for CBF 07 will be published on Friday. We've also finally started the update on MDP German with notes for lessons 15-17 now available and the remaining notes will be published in the next couple of days.

Thanks to everyone for your patience over the past few weeks while we've been involved in other things. We have a few new announcements coming soon, so stay tuned!

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We're rather tentatively launching our new Radio Lingua Store and new Coffee Break Spanish website tonight. After many weeks of work we're now finally able to release the entire back catalogue of Coffee Break Spanish into the store. We receive emails every day from listeners who would like to buy early episodes of Coffee Break Spanish premium materials, or from listeners who prefer not to use Paypal. Our new store offers "Season Passes" for each unit (lessons 1-10, 11-20, 21-30, etc.) and these are available either as basic passes (pdf only) or as VIP passes which include all the bonus materials for each episode.

The pricing is such that it's better value to purchase multiple passes at the one time, but you also receive a special coupon code for future discounts on all purchases when you sign up for any of our VIP passes. Our new store can accept credit and debit cards via Paypal and Google Checkout, but please note that it's no longer necessary to have a Paypal account to buy our premium materials! We're also delighted that through our new system you can buy the products and immediately access the download page (using the Season Pass option only), meaning you're no longer relying on a human being to process your membership!

The long-awaited update of the Coffee Break Spanish site was launched tonight and I'm hoping that it will make everything much clearer for our users. The previous CBS site was launched way back in October 2006 and it has been in need of an update for a while. The new site brings CBS in line with Coffee Break French. Now I've just got the MDPI and MDPG sites to rebrand!

There will undoubtedly be teething troubles with the new store, so I ask that you be a little patient if there are any problems. We have tested the store but we'll need to see how it copes with international credit cards and different systems, etc. Here's hoping...!

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We're delighted to announce that Coffee Break French is now available as a Premium Membership. Each lesson will be accompanied by the enhanced podcast, lesson notes and a bonus audio and/or video podcast. As a special introductory offer there's 20% off all signups for the membership. Find out more at the Coffee Break French site.

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We're delighted to announce that Coffee Break Spanish reaches something of a milestone today. We launched the podcast on 18 October 2006. Forty-two shows - and 9.6 million downloads - later, we'd like to thank all our listeners for sharing 15 minutes of your day with us as you learn Spanish. Here's to another year!

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We're delighted to announce the launch of the all new Radio Lingua Forum. Following our recent problems with spam attacks in our Coffee Break Spanish forum, we've set up a new forum which will hopefully solve the spam problems, and at the same time provide an area for our whole community of language learners to learn with each other and to share their learning.

Unfortunately the forum will require those who used to use the other forum to sign up again. Feel free to use your existing username and password. We would strongly suggest to our premium subscription members to use your existing username and password for the premium materials. We look forward to getting to know you on the forum.

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