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Sep 2011
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Season 3 – Lesson 25 – Coffee Break Spanish
This episode of Coffee Break Spanish features the fifth instalment of our telenovela, Verano Español. At the end of the previous episode, Laura discovered that the boy who has been chatting her up on a daily basis in the panadería is none other than Ángel, her next-door neighbour ... Show More
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