This is the free edition of the Coffee Break Spanish magazine, it's the 3rd of October 2012.

It is escutando Coffee Break Spanish, you are listening to Coffee Break Spanish, my name

is Mark and I am your host for this show, I'll be getting you through the episode helping

you understand all our fantastic content.

This week we'll be joining Alba on the streets of Barcelona, where she is talking to

passers-by about El Verano, the summer.

Laura has a really interesting idiomatic expression for us in this episode and we'll join JPM

Nayeli in Seattle who'll be answering a question from one of our listeners.

All this coming up in this episode of...

So how does this Coffee Break Spanish magazine work?

Well, we're producing this show in seasons of 10 episodes and in this first season each

episode will have three elements and each of these elements is in response to what the

radio-lingual language learning community has been asking for.

First of all, we're bringing you real authentic interviews with native Spanish speakers.

We've actually been out filming in the streets of Barcelona and those of you who have

listened to our showtime Spanish course will remember Alba and you'll be delighted to know

that Alba is presenting this part of our show.

So although these interviews are coming from Barcelona, we've actually interviewed Spanish

speakers from all around the world and you'll be getting a range of accents and even vocabulary

in our interviews.

So that's the first part of our magazine show.

The second part involves idiomatic expressions and for this I'm joined by a new member of

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