Every year, France plays host to one of the largest annual sporting events in the world: Le Tour de France. For 23 days, competitors cycle 2000 miles through 21 different stages, covering mountain ranges and coastal villages. With all of its twists, turns, rapid sprints and gruelling ascents, the event can serve as a powerful
Learning a new language is always an enriching experience, as it is a great exercise for your brain, a beautiful way to learn about new cultures and so forth. But why learn Norwegian? We believe several reasons make it a great idea, therefore, we prepared this blog post to talk about the interesting aspects of
Just when you think you’re starting to get the hang of Spanish, you discover that there are many different varieties spoken all around the world, for example Spain Spanish vs Mexican Spanish. Cue a brief sense of despair at the thought of having to learn every different form of the language, followed by relief when
You can’t always travel to the country where the language you’re learning is spoken, but whether you’re at home, or travelling in an English-speaking country, it’s still possible to be inspired in your language learning by what’s around you. In this video, Coffee Break host and teacher Mark sends a Coffee Break Postcard for Language
When is the best age to learn a new language? It has been said that to be fluent in a second language, one should start learning by the age of 10. What do you think? To us here at Coffee Break Languages, this presents two questions: how do you define “fluent”?; and, is all learning
The English language is filled with innumerable intriguing expressions. For example, one way to describe rotten, wet weather is to say that it’s raining cats and dogs, and sometimes the only way to punish someone for letting the cat out of the bag is by giving them a taste of their own medicine. Of course,
Here at Coffee Break Languages we want to help share our love of languages with a worldwide community of language learners, and that’s why we’re celebrating St Patrick’s Day by making our course in Irish Gaelic available for free on YouTube. In this course you’ll learn to introduce yourself, make conversation with other Irish speakers,
Let’s face it. Everybody loves the sound of the Italian language. That’s why we at Coffee Break Languages have decided to bring you 10 beautiful Italian words that sound great (and are really useful). After all, there is a charming melodic aspect to it that is absolutely undeniable. How can we resist its postalveolar affricates,
Since 2006 we’ve been providing language courses for learners around the world and we believe that Coffee Break provides the perfect solution for learners starting out with a language, or building their comprehension skills to take their learning further. Through Coffee Break French, German, Spanish, Italian and Chinese, you can build a solid understanding of
Here at Coffee Break Languages, we’ve been very busy putting together a brand new course in response to the Coffee Break community’s requests for more reading content. We’re delighted to launch the Reading Club today in French, German, Italian and Spanish! The Coffee Break Reading Club has been designed to help intermediate learners build their
Have you ever learned a new word in a different language and wondered how on earth you would translate it into English? Have you then started to doubt your translation skills, thinking that you no longer even know your language very well? Well… fear not! There are a lot of untranslatable words in Spanish. Often,
Hungarian is spoken by roughly 14 million people in eastern Europe. It’s the official language, of course, in Hungary, and it’s also spoken in parts of Romania, Slovakia and other bordering countries. But is Hungarian a hard language to learn? You may have heard that Hungarian is one of the toughest languages to tackle. Let’s
The start of a new year is the best possible time to make a resolution to challenge yourself to become a better language learner. And this doesn’t necessarily mean hours and hours of study every day! At Coffee Break Languages, we champion the idea of making your down-time your do-time: by using any spare moments
If you have ever heard expressions like ‘it’s not my cup of tea’ and ‘it’s raining cats and dogs’ in the United Kingdom, you know what idioms are. But have you ever thought about Spanish idioms? It’s said that in order to find out more about the culture of a country, one need look no
Have you ever dreamed of learning a language, but never had the opportunity? Perhaps your last language-learning experience was a very long time ago, but you’ve always wanted to reignite your love of languages. If so, being aware of some top tips to learn a new language can make it easier for you to pick
The Coffee Break Academy goes live today as we’ve already moved all our One Minute courses over to the new system. This means that you can learn any one of 26 languages with our “espresso shots”. From Arabic to Zulu, choose your language, and enjoy our high quality video versions and lesson notes in these
Join us for Coffee Break French Live – Q&A with Mark and Pierre-Benoît Questions featured in this episode: When do you pronounce the ‘s’ at the end of the word plus? How do you know whether ‘ll’ is pronounced as an L or a Y sound? Can you give me some phrases to use when
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