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Scenes from the Coffee Break Café

Scenes Season 2 | Chapter 3: Un spectacle de haut vol

Welcome back to Chez Nico – our charming French café, where the aroma of fresh coffee lingers, conversations flow, and life unfolds around every table. In this immersive series, you’ll follow a compelling story set in a local café and build your language skills naturally through storytelling. Between special visitors and a very popular event,

Scenes from the Coffee Break Café

Scenes Season 2 | Chapter 2: Noticias reguleras

Welcome back to Erna’s Café – our charming Spanish café, where the aroma of fresh coffee lingers, conversations flow, and life unfolds around every table. In this immersive series, we follow a compelling story set in a local café and help build your language skills naturally through storytelling. Get ready to discover a surprising turn

Coffee Break Gaelic

CBGa 1.40 | Stornoway

Welcome to the final lesson from Level 1 of Coffee Break Gaelic! We learn some new phrases, more specifically language related to the seasons and we also review some key language points.

Coffee Break Gaelic

CBGa 1.39 | The Isle of Lewis

Welcome to the second last lesson of this series of Coffee Break Gaelic! This time we are exploring the Isle of Lewis.

Coffee Break Gaelic

CBGa 1.38 | The Isle of Harris

This week we’re following Iona as she visits the Isle of Harris. We learn some new vocabulary and also review some more familiar grammar rules and phrases from earlier in the course.

Coffee Break Portuguese

CBP 1.35 | Shopping and lunch at the Mercado do Bolhão – Portuguese shopping vocabulary

In the latest episode of Coffee Break Portuguese we’ll hear two dialogues to help you practise your listening skills in Portuguese. These conversations were recorded on location in Porto, Portugal, when Ava and her friend Mariana were out souvenir shopping, then visiting the well-known Mercado do Bolhão. Back in the studio, Rafael and Ava talk

Coffee Break Portuguese

CBP 1.34 | Breakfast in the hotel – Ordering food and drinks in Portuguese

Welcome to lesson 34 of Coffee Break Portuguese! In this lesson we’ll be hearing multiple voices and accents in Portuguese. We’ll be listening to two conversations that took place while Ava was having breakfast in the hotel in Porto during her trip. Listen to the episode to practise your listening comprehension and to join Rafael

Coffee Break Gaelic

CBGa 1.33 | Oban

In this lesson, we continue on our virtual journey. We follow Iona and her cousins on their travels in Scotland and encounter both some familiar phrases and some completely new ones.

Coffee Break Italian

CBI 3.37 | Il tesoro di Montespelonca | La leggenda delle Torrette.

We’re back with another episode of Coffee Break Italian Season 3 and another instalment of our story series “Il tesoro di Montespelonca“. After the events of the previous episode, Alessandro is still angry with his friends and decides to visit his nonna for lunch in hopes of finally getting to the bottom of the mystery!

Coffee Break German

CBG 3.37 | Ein Zwilling studiert selten allein | Väterlicher Rat

Welcome back to another episode of Coffee Break German Season 3 and in this episode we have a further instalment of our story series “Ein Zwilling studiert selten allein”! In this part of the story, we hear a conversation between father and son: keeping his best interests in mind, observant father Michael talks to Marian

Coffee Break Italian

CBI 3.34 | Il tesoro di Montespelonca | Bentornata a casa, Stella!

Welcome back to Coffee Break Italian Season 3. In episode 34 we are listening to the fourth segment of our story series ‘Il tesoro di Montespelonca‘! Alessandro and his three friends visit Nina, Alessandro’s Nonna, who tells them about the legend of an underground cave going through the mountain near her wheat fields. Allegedly, hens would sometimes disappear

Coffee Break Italian

CBI 3.31 | Il tesoro di Montespelonca | Dov’è Stella?

In this episode of Coffee Break Italian, we introduce our new soap opera, Il tesoro di Montespelonca, revisiting grammar from the first 30 episodes! In this episode of Coffee Break Italian Season 3 we are introducing our new story series ‘Il tesoro di Montespelonca’! Throughout the story we will put into practice all of the

Coffee Break German

CBG 3.30 | Review episode 3.21 – 3.30

Join Mark and Andrea to review all of the key points covered throughout episodes 21 to 29. From the passive, to ordinal numbers, the subjunctive and more, this episode is essential to cement your understanding of these tricky grammar points!

Coffee Break Italian

CBI 3.28 | The gerund | Insieme per l’ambiente

Welcome back to a new episode of Coffee Break Italian! In this episode Mark and Francesca go through all you need to know about the gerund. We then listen to a dialogue between two colleagues Tiziana and Carlo, who are discussing how a more environmentally friendly lifestyle could have a positive impact on the future

Coffee Break Italian

CBI 3.26 | Hypothetical clauses | Sognare non costa niente

In this episode of Coffee Break Italian Season 3 we are focusing on all of the possible ways to form a hypothetical clause (or ‘if’ clause) in Italian. We listen to a dialogue between two friends Michele and Giada, who are discussing the prospect of Michele losing his job and how a lottery win would