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Lessons 61-63 will look at the thorny issue of por and para: by the end of these three lessons you’ll be confident in knowing exactly when to use which word! In lesson 61 we’ll introduce both words and consider various situations when the words can both be translated as “for”. Members’ Materials | Purchase Season Pass [...]

In this week’s episode we reach episode 60 and Mark will be testing Kara on everything she’s learned so far about verbs and adjectives in the past few lessons of the course. Members’ Materials | Purchase Season Pass | iTunes | RSS

This week we’re continuing to look at the imperfect tense. We’ll go through the conjugation of -ar, -er and -ir verbs and talk about how the imperfect tense is used to describe things in the past. Members’ Materials | Purchase Season Pass | iTunes | RSS

In this week’s lesson we introduce the imperfect tense and consider in what situations this tense is used. We’ll also learn the conjugation of -ar verbs in the imperfect tense. Members’ Materials | Purchase Season Pass | iTunes | RSS

It’s time to put into practice what you’ve been learning about the preterite tense. In this week’s episode Mark challenges Kara to an identity quiz using lots of preterite tenses to describe the lives of the mystery personalities. Members’ Materials | Purchase Season Pass | iTunes | RSS

More preterite tenses this week: it’s now time to look at reflexive verbs and verbs which have spelling changes (”radical-changing verbs”) in the preterite tense. Members’ Materials | Purchase Season Pass | iTunes | RSS

We’ll be continuing our study of the preterite tense in this week’s lesson and it’s time to take a look at some irregular verbs: hacer, ir, ver and dar in the preterite, so that you can talk about what you did, where you went, what you saw and more in the past. Members’ Materials | Purchase [...]

This week’s episode of Coffee Break Spanish looks further at the preterite tense which is used to relate events in the past. Listeners should be aware that this episode was originally released in February 2008 and therefore mentions Valentine’s Day. We hope this doesn’t spoil your enjoyment of the episode! Members’ Materials | Purchase Season Pass [...]

In episode 53 of Coffee Break Spanish we introduce the preterite tense which is used to talk about things in the past. Members’ Materials | Purchase Season Pass | iTunes | RSS

In episode 52 of Coffee Break Spanish we’ll review all the verbs which we’ve been learning over the past few months. Members’ Materials | Purchase Season Pass | iTunes | RSS

So, you’ve been learning Spanish with Coffee Break Spanish, and perhaps you’ve been extending your knowledge with Show Time Spanish. Today we’re delighted to introduce a new show to help you build your vocabulary and develop your listening skills even further. News Time Spanish is a new weekly show from the Radio Lingua Network aimed at intermediate to [...]

In episode 51 of Coffee Break Spanish we learn how to say what you’re going to do in the future. In Spanish you use the verb ir combined with a and an infinitive. The lesson explains all you need to know and provides useful examples! This episode was originally released in January 2008, so it focuses [...]

In episode 50 of Coffee Break Spanish we’re putting what we’ve learned in recent weeks about descriptions to the test with an identity game. Members’ Materials | Purchase Season Pass | iTunes | RSS

This week on Coffee Break Spanish we’re taking a further look at adjectives and we’ll be doing more practice using adjectives and making them agree with the word they describe. We’ll also take a look at describing people, including talking about hair and eyes. Members’ Materials | Purchase Season Pass | iTunes | RSS

An easy way of extending your range of language is by using adjectives, and this lesson of Coffee Break Spanish looks at adjectives in detail. In Spanish adjectives have to “agree” with the word they describe and you’ll learn the rules of adjective agreements. Members’ Materials | Purchase Season Pass | iTunes | RSS