Radio Lingua Network

Radio Lingua Network
Company typePrivate
FoundedOctober 2006
FounderMark Pentleton
HeadquartersAyr, South Ayrshire
Area served
Worldwide
Number of employees
10[1]
Websiteradiolingua.com

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. As of February 2017, 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]

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