Now that I’m done with Coffee Break Spanish I’m trying out different podcasts. First I listened to three episodes of Notes in Spanish Inspired Beginners.

So the level of Notes in Spanish Inspired Beginners feels appropriate for me after going through Coffee Break Spanish podcast, however it is definitely not an absolute beginner’s or even beginner’s podcast. I would not use that as the first podcast. They assume you already are at some basic level. They are introducing lots of new vocabulary in each episode. There is barely any repetition so I don’t think you would learn new vocabulary effectively. But it is great for acquiring passive vocabulary. The format of the podcast is first introduction of new vocabulary and then a dialog. Each episode is about 15 minutes long. As of now there are 30 Inspired Beginners episodes, 46 Intermediate episodes and 96 Advanced episodes.

Few of the words and phrases covered in the first three episodes: Mebola (love it), qué rollo (boring), ir de marcha (to go out for nightlife), vaya, vaya (oh dear, what a pity), dondé está la marcha? (where is the nightlife?).

On this day I managed to get in 74 minutes of Spanish. Here is the breakdown:
48 Notes in Spanish Inspired Beginners episodes 1-3
5 Duolingo
21 Memrise

Till tomorrow!