Radio Lingua Network Explained

Radio Lingua Network
Foundation:	October 2006
Founder:	Mark Pentleton
Location:	Ayr, South Ayrshire
Area Served:	Worldwide
Num Employees:	10^[1]

The Radio Lingua Network is a Scottish company headquartered in South Ayrshire, Scotland that provides various language courses through podcasts and other Internet-based media. Radio Lingua was founded in 2006 by Mark Pentleton, a former teacher of French and Spanish. Its first podcast, Coffee Break Spanish, was released on 18 October 2006., the company had produced 36 podcasts teaching 27 different languages.^{[2] [3]}

Radio Lingua provides courses about French, Spanish, German, Italian, Arabic, Catalan, Danish, Dutch, Gaelic, Greek, Flemish, Irish, Japanese, Luxembourgish, Mandarin, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, and Zulu.

Radio Lingua's podcasts have won several national and European awards.^{[4] [5]}

Podcasts

French

• Coffee Break French
• The Coffee Break French Magazine
• Coffee Break French To Go
• Coffee Break French Travel Diaries
• Coffee Break French Verb Fix
• En Route avec Coffee Break French ("On going with Coffee Break French")
• High Five French
• One Minute French
• On Location French
• Rock Star French
• School Run French
• Twitter Learn French
• La vérité éclate toujours ("The truth always shines")
• Walk, Talk, and Learn French

German

• A Flavour of German
• One Minute German
• Coffee Break German
• The Coffee Break German Magazine
• Coffee Break German To Go
• Coffee Break German Travel Diaries
• My Daily Phrase German

Italian

• Coffee Break Italian
• The Coffee Break Italian Magazine
• Coffee Break Italian To Go
• Coffee Break Italian Travel Diaries
• My Daily Phrase Italian
• One Minute Italian
• Twitter Learn Italian
• Walk, Talk, and Learn Italian

Spanish

• Coffee Break Spanish
• Coffee Break Spanish Espresso
• The Coffee Break Spanish Magazine
• Coffee Break Spanish To Go
• Coffee Break Spanish Travel Diaries
• En Marcha con Coffee Break Spanish ("On going with Coffee Break Spanish")
• High Five Spanish
• News Time Spanish
• One Minute Spanish
• One Minute Spanish for Latin America
• Show Time Spanish
• Twitter Learn Spanish

Swedish

• Coffee Break Swedish
• One Minute Swedish

Chinese

• Coffee Break Chinese

English

• Coffee Break English

Other Languages

• One Minute Arabic
• One Minute Catalan
• One Minute Czech
• One Minute Danish
• One Minute Dutch
• One Minute Finnish
• One Minute Flemish
• One Minute Gaelic
• One Minute Galician
• One Minute Greek
• One Minute Hungarian
• One Minute Icelandic
• One Minute Irish
• One Minute Japanese
• One Minute Latvian
• One Minute Luxembourgish
• One Minute Mandarin
• One Minute Norwegian
• One Minute Polish
• One Minute Portuguese
• One Minute Romanian
• One Minute Russian
• One Minute Slovak
• One Minute Turkish
• One Minute Ukrainian
• One Minute Zulu

Notes and References

1. Web site: Our Presenters - Radio Lingua Network.
2. News: Rosenbloom. Stephanie. 2020-04-28. Want to Learn French? Italian? Russian? There’s No Time Like the Present. en-US. The New York Times. 2021-03-22. 0362-4331.
3. News: Rosenbloom. Stephanie. 2012-07-24. 10 Paths to a More Fluent Vacation. en-US. The New York Times. 2021-03-22. 0362-4331.
4. Web site: Lewin. James. European Podcat Awards Announced. Podcating News. 9 April 2009.
5. Web site: Coffee Break French wins European Podcast Award!. Radio Lingua Network. March 2013.