Best Spanish Language Student/Teacher Podcasts (2024)

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CBP 1.31 | At the airport: on location in Portugal 25:58

1d ago25:58

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Welcome to a new episode... on location in Portugal! It's time to put everything we've learned in our course so far into practice in real-life situations. Over the next 10 episodes, we’re going to be following Ava’s trip to Portugal. Back in the studio, Rafael and her will listen to the conversations recorded while she was there and discuss the int…

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50. FINAL EPISODE! - HOLIDAYS - Can you talk about your holidays in different tenses? - Catalan for Beginners 47:30

16d ago47:30

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Send us a Text Message. We have made it to episode 50!! In this episode, we put everything we have learned in the last 4 lessons (and beyond) into practice by seeing if we can understand some short texts about holidays. It's a bit of a longer one to end this season! Hopefully that's a good thing as it means extra practice, but we will try to keep f…

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#21 - Teacher Longevity and Maintaining Joy with Kia London | Meet the Speaker Series 30:23

19d ago30:23

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Send us a Text Message. The Practical & Comprehensible conference is back for 2024! Meet presenter Kia D. London to hear more about her awesome presentation and focus on teacher longevity and maintaining joy, especially as an introverted middle school teacher transitioning to high school. Sign up for this free conference July 29-31 here: https://la…

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#20 - Beating Teacher Burnout with Clarity and Confidence | Pav of Fle avec Mme D| Meet the Speaker Series 25:25

19d ago25:25

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Send us a Text Message. The Practical & Comprehensible conference is back for 2024! Meet presenter Pav of Fle avec Mme D to hear more about her awesome presentation and focus on beating teacher burnout through her journey of having no designated prep time since covid hit her classroom. Sign up for this free conference July 29-31 here: https://lalib…

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#19 - Identity Self-Exploration with Students, Representation, and Social Justice with Middle Schoolers with Allison Perryman | Meet the Speaker Series Practical & Comprehensible 34:41

24d ago34:41

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Send us a Text Message. The Practical & Comprehensible conference is back for 2024! Meet presenter Allison Perryman of The Cultural Classroom to hear more about her awesome presentation and focus on social justice, representation, and identity self-exploration through culture in her Spanish class. @theculturalclassroom Sign up for this free confere…

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49. The Conditional Tense - El Condicional - Catalan for Beginners 33:47

27d ago33:47

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Send us a Text Message. Benvinguts i benvingudes de nou! This episode will teach you how to use the conditional tense to talk about hypothetical things - things you 'would' do... But not just 'you', as you will learn all the pronouns so you can easily manipulate lots of verbs to include talking about other people. We hope you find it useful as alwa…

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#18 - Using Research-Based Social Justice Units and Teaching Techniques with Timothy Chávez | Meet the Speaker Series Practical & Comprehensible 31:41

28d ago31:41

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Send us a Text Message. Practical and Comprehensible is the premiere conference event each year for proficiency-oriented world language teachers! This year, come meet the speakers on the Practical Proficiency Podcast to get a sneak peek and bonus content from the presenters! Meet Timothy Chávez, who is presenting this year on thematic units with so…

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#17 - Using Art in World Language | Practical & Comprehensible Meet the Presenter: Courtney of Llearning Llama 19:53

1M ago19:53

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Send us a Text Message. The Practical & Comprehensible conference is back for 2024! Meet presenter Courtney Bonino of Llearning Llama to hear more about her awesome presentation: ARTful Lesson Planning! Her presentation this year is all about how to use Art in your Spanish classes and world language classes at large. Sign up for this free conferenc…

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48. The Future Tense - El Futur Simple - Catalan for Beginners 38:35

1M ago38:35

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Send us a Text Message. Benvinguts i benvingudes al episodi 48! So far we've covered present and past tenses, this one is all about the future! (The most common future tense - the simple future). We hope it is simple for you to understand and use ;) You will also learn some time expressions in the future tense so that you can use these verbs in sen…

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CBP 1.30 | End-of-unit review 27:26

2M ago27:26

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We've reached lesson 30 of Coffee Break Portuguese! In this episode we're reviewing everything we've learned in our beginner's course so far. We’ll be doing this by listening to and studying two short dialogues, which contain words and phrases on many of the topics we’ve covered. After this episode, we will be taking a break and will be back with e…

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47. The Past Tense - El Perifràstic - Catalan for Beginners 32:48

2M ago32:48

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Send us a Text Message. Hola! In this lesson you will learn all about the 'perifràstic' tense to talk about what you did in the past. You will also learn some time expressions in the past to use with these verbs and we're particularly focussed on describing holidays. There will be more practise in the bonus episode on how to talk about your holiday…

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CBP 1.29 | Making a phone call 21:26

2M ago21:26

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In lesson 29 of Coffee Break Portuguese, we're learning how to make a phone call in Portuguese. Join Rafael and Ava to find out what to say when you answer the phone in Portuguese, learn other useful phrases you'll need for a telephone conversation, and hear everything in context in a practice dialogue. If you'd like to take advantage of bonus mate…

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46. The Present Tense - El Present - Catalan for Beginners 41:49

2M ago41:49

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Send us a Text Message. Welcome back! Benvinguts i benvingudes de nou! This episode is all about the present tense! We are delving into the grammar side of things much more in the next few lessons so that we can begin to really feel confident in communicating in different tenses, since we always use them in our every day conversations. We have obvi…

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#16 - Novice High | What Level is My Student? 25:49

3M ago25:49

25:49

Send us a Text Message. This one is for novice high - the level you'll spend the most time with in your career! Listen to get in-depth examples for exactly what novice highs can do with language, in teacher-friendly language of course! Let's connect: Get the Free World Language Teacher Toolkit Get the Free Roadmap to Proficiency Website TPT Instagr…

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CBP 1.28 | Hobbies and free time 31:07

3M ago31:07

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Welcome to lesson 28 of Coffee Break Portuguese! The topic of this lesson is free time. We’re going to learn how to talk about your hobbies and the activities you enjoy doing, as well as how to say when and how often you do them, using adverbs of frequency in Portuguese. We'll also be joined by Catarina in a Cafezinho com Catarina all about Portugu…

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45. REVIEW - Can you understand a conversation about sports, TV, music and school? - Catalan for Beginners 35:07

3M ago35:07

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Send us a Text Message. Welcome back to another episode! You have reached a review episode where we put all our knowledge from the last four episodes to the test. There will also be some recap of even prior knowledge and some new things to learn along the way, particularly those kind of 'filler' words and phrases to use in a conversation as we are …

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#15 - Novice Mid: What Levels Are My Students? ACTFL Levels Deep Dive 12:05

3M ago12:05

12:05

Send us a Text Message. We're continuing this series on the new 2024 ACTFL guidelines. This answers a common question I get - what level should my students be in and how do I know that? Let's talk about what Novice Mid actually looks like and what it means for your world language program. Check the ACTFL 2024 Proficiency Guidelines here Let's conne…

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#14 - What Level is My Student? Novice Low - ACTFL Levels Deep Dive 15:26

3M ago15:26

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Send us a Text Message. The new ACTFL Proficiency guidelines for 2024 are HERE! Our new series comes from a common listener question - what level should my students be in and how do I know that? Let's talk about what Novice Low actually looks like and what it means for your world language program. Check the ACTFL 2024 Proficiency Guidelines here Le…

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44. School life & Subjects - Catalan for Beginners 36:30

3M ago36:30

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Send us a Text Message. Ei! Com va? This episode is all about school! You will learn a little about the school system and how to talk about different stages of education as well as how to talk about what your favourite subject is or was! (using the past tense!) Let us know what you thought of the episode or if you have any further insights about sc…

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CBP 1.27 | Telling the time 22:44

3M ago22:44

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In lesson 27 of Coffee Break Portuguese, we’re covering another useful, everyday topic – telling the time. We’ll learn how to ask someone for the time, how to say what the time is in Portuguese, and how to say at what time events start and end. Vamos lá! If you'd like to take advantage of bonus materials, lesson notes and a video version of each le…

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#13 - Element 10: Culture | 10 Elements of Proficiency-Oriented World Language Instruction 22:00

3M ago22:00

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Send us a Text Message. It's here, the one we world language teachers have been waiting for - culture lessons! However, culture is complex. Our solution to exposing students to widely diverse cultures should be equally complex and thoughtful. Here's some practical ideas to get you started. Find the mentioned free French Units for back to school her…

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#12 - Element 9: Proficiency-Oriented Assessments | 10 Elements of Proficiency-Oriented World Language Instruction 18:08

4M ago18:08

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Send us a Text Message. Hey hey hey, it's assessment day! This could be a giant deep dive. Today, we're focusing on how to switch mindsets from our assessments being an occasional to a REGULAR and CRUCIAL piece of the proficiency-oriented classroom. They help your students as much as they help inform you! Let's connect: Get the Free World Language …

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43. Instruments, Music & Emotions - Catalan for Beginners 28:07

4M ago28:07

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Send us a Text Message. Hola! This episode teaches you vocabulary for different instruments and how to say what you play or used to play. You will also learn some common emotions along with the verb 'to be' - 'estar' and put all of this together into sentences to practice the language! We hope you enjoy the episode. If you do we would love a rating…

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CBP 1.26 | Talking about work 22:28

4M ago22:28

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Olá! The topic of today's lesson is work. In this episode we're learning new vocabulary to refer to different types of work and professions, as well as finding out how to ask someone what their job is and how to talk about what you do. If you'd like to take advantage of bonus materials, lesson notes and a video version of each lesson, you can acces…

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#11 - Element 8: 60% Input | 10 Elements of Proficiency-Oriented World Language Instruction 7:39

4M ago7:39

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Send us a Text Message. Today's element - input! This is a proficiency teacher favorite. We always talk about how important it is, but that doesn't always mean that YOU need to be the source. Go to Blog Post of the 10 Elements of Proficiency Oriented World Language Instruction (contains image printout) Take action - pick 1 element from today's epis…

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#10 - Element 7: Inclusive and Community Oriented Spaces | 10 Elements of Proficiency-Oriented World Language Instruction 9:30

4M ago9:30

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Send us a Text Message. In this episode, we discuss a list of the people I enjoy learning from to further my journey into equity-driven education. These are the trusted speakers, writers, and teachers to follow and keep in your feed! Head here to the accompanying blog post for the list of DEI speakers and leaders in the world language space. Let's …

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CBP 1.25 | Descriptions and appearances 25:06

4M ago25:06

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We've reached lesson 25 of our course and today's topic is describing people in Portuguese. We'll be learning useful words and phrases to describe someone's appearance and say what they are like. This means that we'll also be reviewing the basics of adjective agreement in Portuguese. Finally, we'll be joined by Catarina, who has a fascinating cultu…

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42. TV & Film - Què mires? Què no mires? Shows & Negative expressions - Catalan for Beginners 38:14

4M ago38:14

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Send us a Text Message. Welcome back! Another episode and this time we are learning about TV & film, including how to say what we watch/like to watch/favourite shows/films and also learning some negative structures to talk about what we don't watch! We hope you enjoy it and find it useful. If you do we hope you will consider rating/reviewing the sh…

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#9 - Element 6: Conduit for Conversation | 10 Elements of Proficiency-Oriented World Language Instruction 7:27

5M ago7:27

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Send us a Text Message. Today's element - the class! Everything should be a conduit for conversation in world language. So where does that leave teachers? As the party host, of course! Go to Blog Post of the 10 Elements of Proficiency Oriented World Language Instruction (contains image printout) Take action - pick 1 element from today's episode and…

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CBP 1.24 | The present tense and the alphabet 29:02

5M ago29:02

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In lesson 24 of Coffee Break Portuguese we're covering two essential topics to help you take your beginner's Portuguese further. Join Rafael and Ava to learn how to conjugate regular verbs in the present tense and learn the Portuguese alphabet. Vamos lá! If you'd like to take advantage of bonus materials, lesson notes and a video version of each le…

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41. Sport! Esport! How often do you play different sports? - Catalan for Beginners 29:37

5M ago29:37

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Send us a Text Message. Ei! Com anem? This episode is all about sports! You will learn vocabulary for 10 common sports, as well as be able to say how often you play them, give opinions and say which sport is your favourite. We hope you like the episode and find it useful. Feel free to get in touch with us with any questions or to chat to us. You ca…

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#8 - Allison Wienhold of Mis Clases Locas - Movies in World Language Class 37:18

5M ago37:18

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Send us a Text Message. Let's dive into how to use movies in your classroom! Allison of Mis Clases Locas is an expert in utilizing culture-rich movies as a source of input and cultural perspectives, especially for multiprep teachers. Connect with her below and be sure to join the conference in June!! Allison Wienhold of Mis Clases Locas has over a …

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#7 - Element 5: Output is Well-Timed and Meaningful | 10 Elements of Proficiency-Oriented World Language Instruction 11:30

5M ago11:30

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Send us a Text Message. Today's element is all about the speaking and the signing: how to make sure we're doing the right speaking activities at the right time. Go to Blog Post of the 10 Elements of Proficiency Oriented World Language Instruction (contains image printout) Take action - pick 1 element from today's episode and see where you can make …

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CBP 1.23 | At the pharmacy 27:45

5M ago27:45

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Welcome to lesson 23 of Coffee Break Portuguese! In this lesson we're covering the transactional language that you'll need on a trip to the pharmacy in a Portuguese-speaking location. We'll be learning how to ask for medicine and ask how to take it, as well as other useful words and phrases on the topic of health. This episode expands on what we le…

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40. QUIZ! Can you talk about your routines and where you live? Review lesson - Catalan for Beginners 37:46

5M ago37:46

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Send us a Text Message. Time to put your knowledge to the test with another review lesson! This episode is a quiz for Alex and you listening to see how much you have remembered from episodes 36-39 - these involved talking about our daily routines and details about where you live. We covered a lot of grammar like reflexive verbs, possessive articles…

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#6 - Element 4: 2-Way Communication | 10 Elements of Proficiency-Oriented World Language Instruction 14:46

5M ago14:46

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Send us a Text Message. This is the essential world language teacher framework for each piece of your target language rich classroom based on proficiency practices. If you're into proficiency-oriented instruction, here's where to start. Today's element deep dive is on how to finally get interaction with your students through 2-way communication: re…

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#5 - Element 3: Target Language Delivery System | 10 Elements of Proficiency-Oriented World Language Instruction 12:12

6M ago12:12

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Send us a Text Message. This is the essential world language teacher framework for each piece of your target language rich classroom based on proficiency practices. If you're into proficiency-oriented instruction, here's where to start. Today's element deep dive is on the one we use the most in class: a target language delivery system. Learn one of…

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CBP 1.22 | Aches and pains 24:26

6M ago24:26

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In lesson 22 of our course, teacher Rafael and learner Ava are talking about aches and pains, and how to say that you’re not feeling well. We’ll be learning some parts of the body in Portuguese, how to say that we are experiencing a problem with one of these, the vocabulary for some other health problems, and some other useful phrases that you can …

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39. Rooms in the house, Possessives & More adjectives! - Catalan for Beginners 34:49

6M ago34:49

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Send us a Text Message. Hola! This episode will teach you how to describe your home - from vocabulary on rooms of the house and descriptions, to learning about possessive adjectives/pronouns (they are the same in Catalan!) and recapping some key verbs. We hope you find it useful. If you want to make faster progress with your Catalan and support our…

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#3 - Element 1: Curriculum, Scope, and Sequence | 10 Elements of Proficiency-Oriented World Language Instruction 11:01

6M ago11:01

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Send us a Text Message. Dive a little deeper into the #1 element - curriculum, scope, and sequence. This is the essential world language teacher framework for each piece of your target language rich classroom based on proficiency practices. If you're into proficiency-oriented instruction, here's where to start. Go to Blog Post of the 10 Elements of…

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#4 - Element 2: Real World Context | 10 Elements of Proficiency-Oriented World Language Instruction 11:00

6M ago11:00

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Send us a Text Message. This is the essential world language teacher framework for each piece of your target language rich classroom based on proficiency practices. If you're into proficiency-oriented instruction, here's where to start. Today's element deep dive is on real-world context. We teach one of the most useful skills in the world. Let's ke…

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#2 - The 10 Elements of Proficiency-Oriented World Language Instruction 23:01

6M ago23:01

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Send us a Text Message. This is the essential world language teacher framework for each piece of your target language rich classroom based on proficiency practices. If you're into proficiency-oriented instruction, here's where to start. Go to Blog Post of the 10 Elements of Proficiency Oriented World Language Instruction (contains image printout) T…

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#1 - START HERE - What Practical Proficiency Means 11:29

6M ago11:29

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Send us a Text Message. This is my story of what proficiency-oriented instruction for world language teachers means to me. How I got started with comprehensible input, how much I loved it, messed up, and then learned there was a more practical approach to teaching language. New to the Practical Proficiency Podcast? Start here! Let's connect: Get th…

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CBP 1.21 | The weather 27:06

6M ago27:06

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Welcome back to another lesson of Coffee Break Portuguese! We’re now halfway through our 40-lesson course and in lesson 21 we are talking about the weather. We’ll be learning how to ask what the weather is like today and what it is going to be like tomorrow, how to answer these questions to describe various types of weather, and hear a weather fore…

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38. Describing your Region/Home - Catalan for Beginners 35:40

6M ago35:40

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Send us a Text Message. Hola! This episode goes into lots more detail in teaching you how to say where you live, learning some different geographical regions, as well as describing them with different adjectives and using a conditional tense to say where you would like to live! On t'agradaria viure? Where would you like to live? Let us know! Thank …

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37. Daily Routine (Afternoon/Evening/Night) - Catalan for Beginners 25:45

7M ago25:45

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Send us a Text Message. Ei! Com va? This episode dives further into talking about our daily routines, outside of just the morning. You will learn how to talk in Catalan about what you normally do in the afternoons, evenings and nights. We hope you enjoy and find it useful! If you'd like to access bonus material, lesson notes and language summaries,…

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36. My Morning Routine (& Reflexive verbs!) - Catalan for Beginners 30:20

7M ago30:20

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Send us a Text Message. Hola! This episode will teach you how to talk about your morning routine in Catalan, and we delve a little bit into learning what are reflexive verbs and how are they used. We hope you enjoy. Feel free to get in touch with us on our socials linked below to chat to us or give us any feedback about the podcast. Fins aviat :) S…

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35. Bon any! Review of the last 4 lessons - Catalan for Beginners 30:56

8M ago30:56

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Send us a Text Message. Hola! Bon any nou! Happy New Year to you! We are so excited for another year of learning Catalan!! This lesson is a review of the last 4 lessons, so we recap months of the year, days of the week, along with other language such as asking to spell your name of recapping some of the holiday traditions that we learned about. If …

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CBP 1.20 | End-of-unit review 27:23

8M ago27:23

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We've reached lesson 20 of Coffee Break Portuguese, which marks the halfway point in our beginners' course. In this episode we’re reviewing what we’ve learned throughout the first 19 lessons. We’ll be doing this by listening to a dialogue that incorporates many of the topics we’ve covered so far. We hope you enjoy seeing how much you’ve learned ove…

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34. Catalan Christmas Traditions and vocabulary! - Catalan for Beginners 32:52

8M ago32:52

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Send us a Text Message. Ei! This lesson is all about Christmas and the holidays. You will gain lots of cultural insights into Catalan traditions around the holidays while learning lots of useful Christmas/holiday vocabulary in Catalan along the way. We hope you enjoy! Please share it with anyone who you think might enjoy it too. Thank you to our la…

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