Meet the team

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Meet the team: Erin

Hi, I’m Erin and I am the Social Media Coordinator here at Coffee Break Languages.  I first worked with Coffee Break as an intern in 2017 when I was involved in the development of Coffee Break Chinese Season 1. After graduating from the University of Glasgow with a degree in Linguistics and Spanish, I joined

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Meet the team: Maurizio

  What is your role in Coffee Break? I am an Italian Content Developer and a Publishing Associate. I work on episodes of Coffee Break Italian, write social media posts, support in the writing and editing of notes on the Academy and film videos for Coffee Break TV. I also keep an eye on the

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Meet the team: Concha

¡Hola! My name is Concha and I am part of the Coffee Break Spanish team. I have worked as a Spanish teacher for almost eight years (time flies!) and I am very happy to be part of the Coffee Break Spanish team. What is your role in Coffee Break? My role involves a wide variety

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Meet the team: Thomas

Servus! My name is Thomas and I am a German Curriculum Developer at Coffee Break Languages. My role is mainly to create and develop content for the different German courses, but I also show up in videos from time to time. What is your role in Coffee Break? I mostly create and record content for

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Meet the team: Léa

Salut ! My name is Léa and I joined Coffee Break in September 2021 as the French Social Media Assistant. I come from Ile-de-France, France and I am currently based in Glasgow, UK. What is your role in Coffee Break? My role as Social Media Assistant is to write Facebook posts for the Coffee Break

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Meet the team: Max

Salut ! I’m Max, I’ve been working for Coffee Break Languages since October 2021 as a French Curriculum Developer. I come from Grenoble, in the beautiful French Alps but I’ve been living in Glasgow since 2014. I love languages and I love learning and teaching. I am a teacher of French as a foreign language.

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Meet the team: Jack

Bonjour ! My name’s Jack and I’m the Audio Visual Production Coordinator at Coffee Break Languages. I joined the company full-time in October 2021 after doing undergraduate degrees in Economics at the University of Aberdeen and Filmmaking and Screenwriting at the University of the West of Scotland. Although I was born in Scotland, I grew

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Meet the team: Catriona

I’m Catriona and I’m the Co-Director at Radio Lingua. I studied French and German and then Law at Glasgow University, where I met Mark. After graduating there, I went on to study Teacher Training for secondary school and taught for 5 years in Ayrshire and Glasgow. I miss pupils and some parts of life in

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Meet the team: Hanna

Hej! My name is Hanna and I joined Coffee Break in 2019. I am doing the Coffee Break Swedish podcast with Mark. I’ve been teaching adults and children Swedish for the last 10 years, since I moved to Scotland. I teach Swedish at the Centre for Open Studies at Glasgow University. What experience have you

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Meet the team: Anabel

Hello! My name is Anabel and I am a Spanish Curriculum Developer for Radio Lingua. I have been part of the team since 2019 and I have enjoyed every minute so far! What is your role in Coffee Break? My role involves a variety of tasks related to Coffee Break Spanish, such as creating content

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Meet the Team: Ava

Hello! I’m Ava and I’m a Production Quality Associate here at Coffee Break. I started as an intern in 2018, while I was studying French and Music at university in Glasgow, and have enjoyed being involved in many exciting Coffee Break projects since then. What is your role in Coffee Break? My role involves a

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Meet the team: Olivera

Hallo! My name is Olivera and I’m a Content Production Assistant in Radio Lingua’s Coffee Break German team. That means my job is to help find the best possible topics for our German courses and turn them into the content our lessons are made of. What is your role in Coffee Break? Those of you

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Meet the team: Monica

Hello! My name’s Monica and I’m Radio Lingua’s Content Production Assistant. I first started working with Radio Lingua when I was younger on a project called High Five French and, in the past two years, I’ve started working on producing content for a variety of new courses and projects. What is your role in Coffee

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Meet the team: Susie

Hi! My name is Susie and I started working as a Curriculum Developer for Radio Lingua in 2018. I’m from Glasgow originally but I grew up in Strasbourg in France and I speak English, French, and Scottish Gaelic. What is your role in Coffee Break? I develop learning materials for Coffee Break French and Coffee

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Meet the team: Ann

Hola, I’m Ann and I joined the Radio Lingua team in 2018. I speak Spanish, French and some Italian and when I have time, I try to learn a little German. What is your role in Coffee Break? I have recently joined Coffee Break as a full time colleague, after working part time with the

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Meet the team: Pierre-Benoît

My name is Pierre-Benoît Hériaud and I feel very proud, privileged and honoured to say that I have been working with Radio Lingua since the very beginning! ☺ What is your role in Coffee Break? I have contributed to and helped with creating, producing and recording material for all 4 seasons of Coffee Break French.

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Meet the team: Francesca

Ciao, I’m Francesca and I’m one of the Coffee Break Italian podcast co-hosts. I joined Radio Lingua in 2014 when I witnessed the birth of Coffee Break Italian and since then I have been involved in so many other exciting projects! I have also been teaching Italian for more than a decade at university in beautiful

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Meet the team: Andrea

My name is Andrea and it’s my job to teach Mark German in the second series of Coffee Break German. I knew about Coffee Break for a few years before I joined the Radio Lingua team in 2016. I am a qualified language teacher, translator and interpreter, but I started out in a completely different

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Meet the team: Kristina

My name’s Kristina and I’m Coffee Break’s Operations and HR Manager. I first started working at the company as an intern in October 2016, during my final year of university. After graduating in June 2017, with a Masters in International Business and Modern Languages, I started working full time in our Glasgow office. What is