¡Enhorabuena, España! To celebrate Spain winning the World Cup we’re extending our sale on our Spanish courses until Wednesday 14th July. To benefit from this special offer and get 20% off our Spanish courses including Coffee Break Spanish, Show Time Spanish, TwitterLearn Spanish, and News Time Spanish, simply use coupon code campeones at check-out.
No festive period is complete without a sale, and we’re offering you 25% off all our courses right through until 31 December, midnight GMT. If you’ve been thinking about taking your language-learning more seriously next year, perhaps now is the time to jump on board and purchase one of our Season Passes. We’re delighted to be able to offer free language-learning materials to hundreds of thousands of listeners around the world, but you can take your learning to a new level with our premium materials which include lesson guides, extra listening materials and exericses for each of our courses.
To receive your 25% discount, simply use the coupon code holidays09 (lower case) at checkout when you’re buying one of our courses. If you’ve not purchased an item from us before, you can view our full range of products here, or visit the appropriate store front for Coffee Break French, Coffee Break Spanish, Show Time Spanish, One Minute Languages, or School Run French. When you complete the form, make sure you enter holidays09 in the coupon code area at the bottom of the signup page.
Please note that the 25% reduction will be applied at checkout. EU customers should be aware that the prices quoted on our signup pages do not include VAT. If you use the coupon code then the 25% discount will be applied and then 17.5% VAT will be added to the total cost. It’s worth also pointing out that as of 1st January 2010, the VAT charges will have to increase to 17.5% in line with the Inland Revenue arrangements in the UK.
Please remember to use the coupon code as you’re purchasing: no refunds will be given on any materials purchased at full price if the coupon codes have not been used.
Would you like to purchase a gift membership? If so, please contact us at support@radiolingua.com and we’ll get things set up for you. Let us know what product you wish to buy and the email address of the recipient. We’ll process your payment and send the gift membership invitation in time for Christmas. Please note that the deadline for any Christmas gifts is 17 December.
New for 2010: the Radio Lingua Club. We’ve been listening to comments from our existing premium customers and one of the most common requests is for more help and advice for learning languages. We’ve decided therefore to create a ‘club’ around this. Membership to the club will last 12 months and during this time members will receive the following benefits:
The Radio Lingua Club will involve a monthly payment of just £4.00 GBP. Alternatively you can purchase a twelve-month subscription for £36. The club will launch on January 1st 2010 with our first weekly language-learning tips podcast. We’re offering a special early-bird purchase offer where you can get 25% off the twelve-month subscription: for just £27 you will get access to a full year’s worth of podcasts, you’ll access the reduced prices throughout 2010, and you will be able to use the refer-a-friend refund too.
Please note that the Radio Lingua Club is no longer available, as of July 2011.
If 2009 has been a big year for Radio Lingua, we’re really excited about what’s coming in 2010! Our Coffee Break French listeners will be aware that we’re moving into lessons 71-80 of Coffee Break French, and we’re often asked about “what happens when Coffee Break French finishes?” Well, we’re busy planning new content for intermediate learners at the moment, and we’re sure that everyone will enjoy what will come after our existing course content.
This year we introduced our first experimental video show – Walk, Talk and Learn French. We were overwhelmed at the response to Walk, Talk and Learn, but as a small company we’ve been limited in terms of the time required to produce more shows. Fans of the show will be delighted to know that we’ve filmed a second series and are working on the content at the moment, ready for launch early in 2010.
We’re a couple of days away from releasing the last ever episode of Show Time Spanish, which has developed into one of our most popular shows. As we’ve explained to listeners, Show Time took an enormous amount of work to produce each episode and we feel that we can’t continue the show in its current format. However, we are sure that Show Time Spanish listeners won’t be disappointed with what we have planned for release in the new year. We’re working on new content which will continue to feature native-speaker conversations and in-depth study of the language. We can’t say too much now, but we’ll be making some announcements early in the New Year.
If you’re interested in languages other than French and Spanish then we’re very pleased to announce that 2010 will bring more content for Italian and German learners and that we’ll continue to increase our range of One Minute Languages.
Last, but by no means least, since September we’ve been working in conjunction with schools in the UK through Radio Lingua Schools, and we’ve been involved in several projects involving languages and creative technologies. In 2010 we’re going to be looking more at the resources side of Radio Lingua Schools and have started work on a major new course for children, due to be launched in August 2010.
Of course, as we’ve said many times, we’re still a small company and we’re doing our best to continue to produce high quality, engaging materials. We hope that 2010 will bring further opportunities for new projects, collaboration and new ideas!
Of course we have lots of ideas as to our new developments, but we’re really interested to hear about your ideas. To this end, we’re asking for 10 minutes of your time and we hope that you’ll be willing to share some of your thoughts about language-learning and your next steps as a learner.
We’ve devised a survey and would be very grateful if you would tell us a little about your language-learning and your experience using Radio Lingua materials. You can give as much or as little detail as you wish, but obviously it’s extremely useful to us if you can provide as much information as possible. There are different sections of the survey, depending on which language(s) you learn with Radio Lingua, and on whether you listen to the free content or use our premium materials. You’ll be guided through the survey and we’ll try to explain why we’re asking what we’re asking.
If you complete the survey you’ll be invited to enter a prize draw – there’s an iPod Touch up for grabs along with five platinum season passes to a language course of your choice!
To start taking the survey now, click here.
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In the final lesson of this season of TwitterLearn Spanish, you’ll learn some phrases which will help you improve further in Spanish. Listen here:
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Today’s words and phrases:
estoy aprendiendo español – “I’m learning Spanish”
¿me puede ayudar? - “can you help me?” (formal)
¿me puedes ayudar? - “can you help me?” (informal)
quisiera mejorar mi español – “I’d like to improve my Spanish”
If you would like to improve your Spanish further, why not check out our other Spanish courses? The perfect continuation of TwitterLearn Spanish is our award-winning course Coffee Break Spanish. This is made up of 80 lessons, each lasting 15-20 minutes in which Mark (the host of TwitterLearn Spanish) teaches student Kara. Don’t forget to use the coupon code which was provided via @learnspanish if you would like to purchase the premium version of Coffee Break Spanish!
When you’re using your Spanish skills with native speakers you may find that you don’t understand some things. Listen to today’s show here:
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Today’s words and phrases:
no entiendo – “I don’t understand”
¿puede hablar más despacio, por favor? - “can you speak more slowly, please?”
Remember that by following @learnspanish on Twitter, you can learn Spanish in 140-character lessons linked to these audio programmes.
Now that you can tell the time in Spanish, you’ll learn to put it to practical use in today’s show. Listen here:
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Today’s words and phrases:
¿a qué hora…? – “at what time…?”
¿a qué hora abre el banco? - “at what time does the bank open?”
¿a qué hora sale el tren? – “at what time does the train leave?”
¿a qué hora llegamos? – “at what time do we arrive?”
a las siete – “at seven o’clock”
a las ocho menos veinte - “at twenty to eight”
Remember that by following @learnspanish on Twitter, you can learn Spanish in 140-character lessons linked to these audio programmes.
In today’s lesson you’ll learn how to tell the time more accurately, using phrases such as “it’s five past four”. Since the words and phrases in today’s lesson vary in pronunciation between Spain and Latin America, we’ve provided two versions of today’s lesson.
If you’re interested in Spanish for Spain, listen to today’s show here:
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If you’re interested in Spanish for Latin America, listen to today’s show here:
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Today’s words and phrases:
son las cuatro y cinco – “it’s five past four”
son las cuatro y diez - “it’s ten past four”
son las cuatro y veinte - “it’s twenty past four”
son las cuatro y veinticinco - “it’s twenty-five past four”
son las cinco menos veinticinco - “it’s twenty-five to five”
son las cinco menos veinte - “it’s twenty to five”
son las cinco menos diez - “it’s ten to five”
son las cinco menos cinco - “it’s five to five”
Remember that by following @learnspanish on Twitter, you can learn Spanish in 140-character lessons linked to these audio programmes.
In the final week of TwitterLearn Spanish we’ll be completing our discussion of time and learning some useful phrases to help you move forward learning the language. Since the words and phrases in today’s lesson vary in pronunciation between Spain and Latin America, we’ve provided two versions of today’s lesson.
If you’re interested in Spanish for Spain, listen to today’s show here:
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If you’re interested in Spanish for Latin America, listen to today’s show here:
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Today’s words and phrases:
once – “eleven”
doce - “twelve”
son las once y media – “it’s half past eleven”
mediodía – “midday / noon”
medianoche – “midnight”
es mediodía - “it’s midday / noon”
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Today we’ll cover a little more about telling the time. Listen to today’s show here:
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Today’s words and phrases:
es la una – “it’s one o’clock”
es la una y media - “it’s half past one”
son las siete y cuarto – “it’s quarter past seven”
son las ocho menos cuarto – “it’s quarter to eight” (7:45)
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If you have a train to catch or are waiting for the museum (or shops!) to open, it’s useful to know how to tell the time. Listen to today’s show here:
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Today’s words and phrases:
¿qué hora es? – “what time is it?”
son las dos - “it’s two o’clock”
son las tres – “it’s three o’clock”
son las cuatro - “it’s four o’clock”
Remember that by following @learnspanish on Twitter, you can learn Spanish in 140-character lessons linked to these audio programmes.
Finding a bank and changing money can be made easier if you have the necessary language skills. Listen to today’s show here:
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Today’s words and phrases:
¿dónde está el banco? – “where is the bank?”
quisiera cambiar dinero - “I would like to change some money”
¿hay un cajero automático por aquí?- “is there a cash dispenser / ATM around here?”
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In today’s lesson you’ll learn to buy train or bus tickets. Listen to today’s show here:
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Today’s words and phrases:
quisiera un billete de ida – “I would like a single (one way) ticket”
quisiera un billete de ida y vuelta - “I would like a return (roundtrip) ticket”
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This week on TwitterLearn we’ll be covering a number of situations which you may encounter while on holiday in a Spanish-speaking part of the world. Today, we’ll be dealing with travel. Listen to today’s show here:
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Today’s words and phrases:
quiero ir a … (Burgos / Guadalajara) – “I want to go to (Burgos / Guadalajara)”
¿este autobús va a la playa?- “does this bus go to the beach?”
¿este tren va a Guadalajara? – “does this train go to Guadalajara?”
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In this last lesson of week 6, you’ll learn to talk about what there is in the town. Listen to today’s show here:
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Today’s words and phrases:
¿hay un banco cerca de aquí? – “is there a bank near here?”
¿hay un supermercado cerca de aquí? - “is there a supermarket near here?”
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In today’s lesson you’ll learn how to ask if places in the town are far or near. Listen to today’s show here:
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Today’s words and phrases:
¿está lejos? – “is it far?”
está lejos - “it is far”
¿está cerca? - “is it near?”
está cerca - “it is near”
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Today you’ll learn to understand simple directions. Listen to today’s show here:
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Today’s words and phrases:
todo recto – “straight on”
gire a la derecha - “turn right”
gire a la izquierda - “turn left”
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