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Radio Lingua Network News: 18 Sep 2007

Radio Lingua Network News: 18 Sep 2007

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Coffee Break Spanish wins major award; Coffee Break French ready for launch; news about premium service

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This is Mark from the Radio Lingua Network and I'm here to bring
you some of the latest news about our language-learning materials.
It's been a while since we released a CBS news podcast, and there's
just so much happening just now we thought it was time to add this
news podcast to all our feeds to bring you the latest information.
This news programme will be added to all our podcast feeds to make
sure everyone hears about what's happening, regardless of which
language you're learning with us. There's also another reason why
we wanted to release the news podcast today, but more about that in
just a moment! First up today is the news that Coffee Break Spanish
has won a European Award for Languages. The award recognises
"creative ways to improve the quality of language teaching,
motivate students and make the best of available resources". It's a
Europe-wide initiative supported by the European Commission. The UK
co-ordinator of the initiative is CILT, the National Centre for
Languages. In total 15 initiatives were recognised involving
language-learners of all ages. According to the judges, "the
success of Coffee Break Spanish across the world shows that
podcasting can promote language awareness and competence regardless
of geographical location". Kara and I will be at the Millennium
Stadium in Cardiff on 20 November to accept the award. We'd like to
take this opportunity to thank everyone for their support of Coffee
Break Spanish, and we're looking forward to the new season
beginning in a few weeks. All the Coffee Break Spanish news can be
found at www.coffeebreakspanish.com Final preparations are underway
for our launch of Coffee Break French next week. The French team is
heading out to Paris this weekend in preparation for the launch.
The Coffee Break French feed is already live and you can subscribe
to it in iTunes or via the website. Prior to the launch we've been
releasing promo shows about Coffee Break French and there will be
another one of these later this week explaining what the course
will involve. Coffee Break French goes live at 18h00 on Wednesday
26th September when we'll launch with a video introduction from
Paris. While in Paris we'll also be working on something else, but
at this stage we'll have to keep that top secret! More information
in the coming months! We're going to be making some changes with
the Coffee Break Spanish premium service. Within the next couple of
weeks we're going to be introducing a new way of accessing the
premium materials, rather than using the subscription method.
Current subscriptions will remain in place, and it will still be
possible to sign up for 3 month subscriptions, but the new store
which is currently in development will allow listeners to purchase
whole units for one-off costs. We'll be able to accept payment by
credit card rather than Paypal only, so hopefully this will be good
news for many of you. The same system will be used for our other
podcasts. Now for a quick roundup of where we are with our
podcasts. CBS episode 40 is about to be released and features a
discussion about languages and language-learning in Spain. There's
even some Catalan thrown in in this week's show. We'll be taking a
couple of weeks off with CBS while we launch CBF, but we'll be back
with unit 5 in early October. MDPG is about to finish. We're going
to be releasing the final materials in this series in the next few
days. Our plans are to remove all the content of MDPG and MDPI from
the feeds in November and then start the courses again with some
updated extra materials. Many listeners have been asking us about
higher level Italian and German courses. We'll be introducing a new
German course in the winter and we're currently planning more
Italian content for early 2008. We'll take this opportunity to
mention that we're also developing short courses in other languages
including Polish and Norwegian. These will be made available over
the coming months and you'll hear more about them in future news
podcasts. And finally... if any Scottish educators are heading to
the Scottish Learning Festival this week then do come along to the
Apple stand where I'm going to be demonstrating podcasting along
with Kara. The Scottish Learning Festival is a major event in the
educational calendar in the UK welcoming tens of thousands of
educationalists from across Europe. Find out more at
www.ltscotland.org.uk/slf. You can also subscribe to the SLF
Connected Live podcast in iTunes. And that's it for this edition of
Radio Lingua News. We'll be back in a couple of weeks after the
launch of CBF. In the meantime, thanks for listening.