Level 1 of Coffee Break Spanish draws to a close with this episode which looks at the languages of Spain through two conversations with native speakers.

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In today’s show you’ll learn how to say that you speak Italian – or indeed that you don’t! You’ll also learn to ask other people if they speak English. Listen to the audio here:

Download audio file (tli-01-04.mp3)

Today’s words and phrases:

parlo italiano - “I speak Italian”
non parlo italiano - “I don’t speak Italian”
parla inglese? - “do you speak English?” (used with people you don’t know)

Remember that by following @learnitalian on Twitter, you can learn Italian in 140-character lessons linked to these audio programmes.

In this week’s episode, Mark and Alba discuss some useful techniques for learning languages and share their ideas and advice with listeners. In the intermedio Alba talks about the northern Spanish city of Bilbao, and José introduces a construction which involves lo + adjective. Grammar points covered include the construction siempre que and the use of the subjunctive after para que. 

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