First let me say that we both love Coffee Break Spanish. And no, we aren’t affiliated with it in any way. And no, we don’t love every program we use. We’ll eventually get to the ones we hate, but let’s do the good ones first.
For those of you who haven’t heard it, Coffee Break Spanish is a language lesson between the teacher (Mark) and the student (Kara). It’s relaxed and friendly, a tad unusual (Mark has a Scottish accent), and is at a pace suitable for all levels (with lots of pauses for the listener to repeat the words and phrases).
You can listen with an itunes link or an rss feed, you can download as mp3s and it’s free. Of course, if you would like additional material such as pdf guides, exercises, etc, then there is an upgraded version that you can buy. It’s a good value for it’s price, but so is “FREE”.
The lessons are listed one by one, with a good description of each, so you can go to any section that suits you, if you only want to work on, say, ordering in a restaurant. In Lesson 18 for example, Mark & Kara actually visit a restaurant). And just as we do with the Pimsluer lessons, we both tend to listen to the Coffee Break Spanish lessons several times before moving on to the next.
Can Spanish lessons be fun? Oh yeah. Certainly if you’re really getting into learning. And these lessons are fun.
You can link to http://coffeebreakspanish.typepad.com/cbs2/ to go to Coffee Break Spanish.
Or, if you would like to read some reviews and comments, try:
Podfeed http://www.podfeed.net/podcast/Coffee+Break+Spanish/9552
Atomic Podcasts http://www.atomicpodcasts.com/2009/03/coffee-break-spanish-review-como-se.html
Podcast Alley http://www.podcastalley.com/see_comments.php?pod_id=40291
Matt’s Languages http://mattslanguages.blogspot.com/2007/01/second-podcast-review-coffee-break.html
Literal Minded http://literalminded.wordpress.com/2007/04/11/coffee-break-scottish-english/
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