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Radio Lingua - new term begins!

This weekend sees the launch of new units in Coffee Break Spanish (lesson 11), Coffee Break French (lesson 41) and Show Time Spanish (lesson 11). In addition to this new content, Walk, Talk and Learn French episode 1 was published yesterday.

Announcing a new French video podcast from Radio Lingua

We're delighted to announce a brand new show from Radio Lingua - Walk, Talk and Learn French. This podcast introduces French grammar as you've never seen it before. The podcast is aimed at intermediate learners of French and covers a variety of grammar and vocabulary topics. 

You can visit the Walk, Talk and Learn website, and subscribe to the podcast for free in iTunes (rss feed here). The pilot episode launches today, 9th January, and episode one will be made available next Friday, 16th January.

Announcing our iPod Winners

 

Congratulations to runners-up Klara from Bromma, Sweden, and Erling from Oslo, Norway, and to our overall winners Claire and Emma from Seattle, USA, and thanks to all listeners for sending us your language-learning experiences. 

This holiday season... give the gift of language!

 

We felt that the cheesy jingle wasn't enough - we needed snowflakes and Christmas trees! Just a reminder that the Winter Sale is currently on, giving 20% discount on any membership with coupon code HOLIDAYS08. You can use this discount to purchase a membership or a season pass. The coupon code is valid until 31 December 2008.

Video competition deadline extended - win an iPod

Due to an earlier website problem which resulted in submission difficulties, we've extended the closing date for entries in our Video Competition. We're going to be giving away three iPod nanos - send us a video in which you tell us about your language-learning story. There are full details on our website - please ensure you have read the terms and conditions!

You want imperatives? You got them!

Joe Dale of Integrating ICT into the Classroom pointed out this video on YouTube which you may well have seen or heard of, but it has been subtitled in Spanish which may interest our Coffee Break Spanish learners who are desperate to learn some imperatives (command forms)! These are actually coming up in a future lesson (76) but in the meantime, here is a very clever performance, and a challenge to follow the Spanish in under three minutes!

Festive French Fun from Paris

We're just back from Paris where we spent three days filming new episodes of the video extra for Coffee Break French. We'll be publishing the video extras for lessons 6-9 in the coming weeks, along with the new episodes for lesson 11 onwards. We were also filming for our new French video podcast, Walk, Talk and Learn French. More about Walk, Talk and Learn soon, but in the meantime you may enjoy this video, complete with a seasonal song from Mark and Anna in the Parisian winter sunshine.

Coffee Break Spanish wins major award

Mark and Kara from Coffee Break Spanish were down in Cardiff yesterday to pick up a coveted European Award for Languages, presented by Isabella Moore, CEO of CILT, the National Centre of Languages on behalf of the European Commission. Watch the video of the proceedings below.