How this works – Coffee Break Spanish Season 4
Coffee Break Spanish
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🗓️ 21 January 2015
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Summary
We’re about to launch the fourth season of Coffee Break Spanish and in this short podcast episode Mark explains what is involved in this new season.
Each lesson in this new course represents a chapter in our story. The chapter is built around a text: this text could be an email or a conversation between two of the characters, or it could be a diary entry or a letter. In the audio episode we’ll listen to a spoken version of that text. We’ll be publishing the free preview episodes of the course here on the site, on iTunes and on Soundcloud. The preview episodes include an introduction from Mark and Carmen, the audio of the text and then a summary of the text in English to help learners understand.
Our premium materials for Season 4 include the following elements:
- the full audio lesson: running to around 30 minutes, this episode analyses the text and Mark and Carmen will discuss the grammar points and idiomatic expressions featured in the text, helping you to understand with further examples;
- a transcript of the lesson: if you didn’t quite catch what the presenters said in Spanish in the episode, you’ll be able to follow the transcript and use the handy notes to help you fully understand;
- bonus audio lesson: we’re also providing an extra episode which will test you on your translation skills.
Episode one will be published on Wednesday 28th January at 6:00pm UK time. If you’re interested you can go ahead and preorder the course here.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, that's all, everyone, welcome to a Coffee Break Spanish. |
| 0:08.4 | This is Mark from Coffee Break Spanish and I thought it would be useful to tell you a |
| 0:12.5 | little about how Coffee Break Spanish season 4 is going to work. |
| 0:17.1 | As we've already mentioned, the series follows a story and this story features two main |
| 0:22.4 | characters, Maria and Rory. |
| 0:25.4 | Now those of you who are familiar with Showtime Spanish or Coffee Break Spanish season 3 |
| 0:30.4 | and met Alba through Coffee Break Spanish season 3, you'll be delighted to know that Alba |
| 0:35.7 | returns in the character of Maria. |
| 0:38.8 | So we'll be listening to Alba playing Maria and well Rory is a Scottish person, Maria's |
| 0:46.3 | boyfriend and so it's my job to play Rory. |
| 0:50.7 | There are other characters in the story too, we'll be meeting Alejandro who is from Argentina |
| 0:56.0 | and also other members of Maria's family but you'll hear more about that as time goes on. |
| 1:02.0 | So each episode focuses on one chapter of the story, sometimes that's a conversation |
| 1:07.6 | between Maria and Rory, sometimes it's an email that Maria has written to Rory or Rory |
| 1:14.6 | has replied to Maria and sometimes it's a letter. |
| 1:18.8 | Again, you'll hear more about this, I don't want to give too much away but each time there |
| 1:23.0 | will be some kind of text and we'll be listening to a spoken version of that text. |
| 1:29.6 | Now the text have been written in such a way that they are obviously telling the story |
| 1:34.0 | but they also contain lots of interesting language. |
| 1:37.2 | So we've got complex grammar points, we've got very exciting idiomatic expressions and |
| 1:43.1 | we've also got some vocabulary that may well be new to you. |
| 1:47.0 | And in each episode I'll be joined by a new member of the Coffee Break Spanish team, |
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