Café con lengua

Have you got time for a coffee? Great, because according to the eager team at Coffee Break Spanish you've also got time to improve your communication skills in one of the world's most-used languages.

Radiolingua.com offers  Coffee Break Spanish ('language learning with your latte') in a series of weekly podcasts accessible free from their website. 

I just dropped in on Lesson 15, the latest to be posted and a vital primer on how to order coffee and tapas. I think it's more of a Plodcast unless you are a real beginner, and I found the pronunciation detail right at the start of some lessons a turn-off.  But the site is cheerful and uncluttered, the warm Scots voices of teacher and pupil are soothing, and overall it's a great motivator for getting started.  Users have posted rave reviews on the site, some of which must be for real.

Previous lessons are also available to listen to, so you can work up from absolute basics if you like.  For around €12 per month you can augment the podcasts with PDF downloads of supporting material, plus bonus podcasts, iPod notes and even flashcards. 

Now it could just be that I'll buy any idea where the hot beverage of my choice is involved, but Coffee Break Spanish does seem an appetising way to lap up language learning.  ¡Pruebatelo!

 

Comments

[Jan]

For intermediate and advanced Spanish
podcasts try Notesinspanish.com
Lots of interesting and contemporary
topics.

[Mark]

Thanks for the review. I'd like to point out two things: first, the podcast is indeed aimed at the "real beginner" and I would hope the real beginners it's aimed at don't feel that it's a "plodcast"! Secondly, I guarantee that every one of the reviews are real, apart from the one which says "It's my podcast so I'm bound to like it"! Users seem to be enjoying CBS and we have 85,000 listeners for each lesson. I guess there must be a fair number of real beginners out there.