Listen to our free podcasts and learn or improve your Italian on the go, where and when it suits you.
Take the next step and sign up for a course on the Coffee Break Academy, accessing video materials, lesson notes and bonus audio content.
Improve your vocabulary, build your language skills and keep up with the Coffee Break Italian team on social media.
Coffee Break Italian is currently available in two levels, represented by each “season”. Each season features 40 lessons.
Each series is slightly different in the way in which it is presented and in the materials provided. Scroll down for more information and to find out about our Coffee Break Italian Magazine course.
Each Season of Coffee Break Italian offers a huge amount of free content available as audio podcasts. You can access these on our website, on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts and Spotify and each lesson lasts around 15-20 minutes - the perfect Coffee Break length!
If you'd like to take your learning further and make faster progress, we offer a full online course for each Season. Resources include bonus audio materials, video episodes and lesson notes. See below for further details for each Season.
The £GBP price quoted above includes VAT for the UK. VAT is added automatically at the local rate for customers purchasing within the EU. Customers from elsewhere in the world will not pay VAT. Please note also that we offer bundles of multiple seasons on the Coffee Break Academy.
Join the conversation with the Coffee Italian team on social media! We post regular language and cultural information on Facebook, and you can keep up with Coffee Break Languages on Instagram.
Follow Coffee Break Italian on Facebook and practise your language skills with our cultural and language posts three times a week.
Keep up to date with our latest news and lessons. You can find us on Twitter where we're @learnitalian.
Over on the Coffee Break Languages YouTube channel, you'll find useful videos to help you improve your Italian. Read on for more information.
Come behind the scenes with the Coffee Break team, and build your vocabulary and understanding with our regular Instagram stories. Follow @coffeebreaklanguages .
Join teacher Mark, native speaker Francesca and learner Katie for 40 lessons of basic Italian. You’ll start by learning to introduce yourself and master greetings, and then work through a range of topics which are useful to anyone travelling in an Italian-speaking area. You’ll not simply be repeating phrases: instead you’ll learn how the language works and you’ll understand what you’re saying.
Topics include greetings, introducing yourself, talking about your family, your likes and dislikes and your job. You’ll also learn to use Italian in a variety of transactional situations, including ordering food and drinks, using public transport, asking for directions, going shopping and much more.
The premium version of Season 1 includes bonus materials to help you make faster progress with your learning. In addition to the main audio lesson, you’ll also have access to a video version of this lesson where you’ll see the words on the screen of your device. There’s also a bonus audio episode and comprehensive lesson notes to help you get to grips with the language taught. This course is available on the Coffee Break Academy.
In Season 2 you’ll build your understanding of Italian, moving on from a beginner’s level to an intermediate level. You’ll learn about how the language works and to “say what you want to say”, manipulating the language in a variety of tenses. You’ll join learner Isla, native speaker Francesca and teacher Mark, and cover a range of topics, building a solid understanding of Italian grammar through the lessons of Season 2.
Season 2 puts Italian grammar into a range of contexts. For example you’ll learn to use the present tense to make arrangements and talk about your daily routine. You’ll also learn to use past tenses and how to describe things using adjectives. You’ll build on the transactional areas of vocabulary covered in Season 1 and apply your new-found knowledge of the language to these areas.
The premium version of Season 2 are similar to those of Season 1 and these bonus materials will help you make faster progress with your learning. In addition to the main audio lesson, you’ll also have access to a video version of this lesson where you’ll see the words on the screen of your device. There’s also a bonus audio episode and comprehensive lesson notes to help you get to grips with the language taught. This course is available on the Coffee Break Academy.
For intermediate learners we also offer the Coffee Break Italian Magazine. In this ten-lesson series you’ll join Mark and Francesca for 20-minute lessons covering a variety of cultural and linguistic topics, helping you to build your understanding of grammar by seeing it in context.
Each episode of the Magazine focuses on a different topic. In addition the episodes include a phone-in segment where the Coffee Break team will answer listeners’ questions.
The online course for the Coffee Break Italian Magazine offers additional text materials to support the audio lessons. These include transcripts and notes, vocabulary lists and exercises.
We publish regular lessons both in the Coffee Break Italian podcast feed and on our YouTube channel. Here’s a selection of our most recent lessons.
It’s the 10th and final episode of the Coffee Break Italian Travel Diaries Season 2 and Simone and Anna are rounding off their trip with a visit to the city of Trento before enjoying one last traditional lunch with canederli, polenta,
In the penultimate episode of the series, Simone and Anna are on the move again as they are hiking up Marmolada – the highest mountain of the Dolomites. Mark and Francesca pick up on many interesting grammar points along the
In the latest episode of the Coffee Break Italian Travel Diaries Season 2, Simone and Anna are in Cortina, one of the most popular ski destinations in the Dolomites, where they enjoy a trip to the spa. Join Mark and
Welcome back to Season 2 the Coffee Break Italian Travel Diaries! Having spent the night in the mountain retreat, Simone and Anna make their way down from the Le Tre Cime and encounter a deer on their way. Throughout Simone’s
In Episode 6 from Season 2 of the Coffee Break Italian Travel Diaries, Simone and Anna finally make it to the Tre Cime di Lavaredo and make the most of the view before having lunch in a mountain retreat while
We’re halfway through our trip to the mountains in northern Italy, and this time, we join Anna and Simone for some ice skating on Lago di Dobbiaco after an unexpected detour changes their plan for the day. All’idea di, tanto che
Coffee Break Italian is a production of the Radio Lingua Network and we produce all Coffee Break Languages courses, along with One Minute Languages and High Five Languages for younger learners. The Radio Lingua team is made up of experienced teachers and native speakers and we’re based in Glasgow, Scotland. To find out more about the team, visit our Meet The Team section of the website.
We offer free content in the form of audio podcasts for each of the seasons of Coffee Break Italian. In the audio podcasts you’ll be able to build your understanding of Italian and hear how words are pronounced. However, there’s no guidance on how the words are written. This is where the online course comes in. The course offers additional materials:
If you’re serious about learning Italian we would suggest that you consider the online course to help you make faster progress with the lessons and build a deeper understanding of the language.
Our audio podcasts are free and you can access them here on the website, on your favourite podcast app, or on Spotify. We offer a paid online course which provides additional materials. The cost for one season is £96.00 GBP including VAT, or $104.00 USD excluding VAT. Please see above for further information on pricing.
We do not currently have an app version of Coffee Break Italian. In the past we have had problems with a group of developers who have stolen our content and published it within paid-for apps. These apps are not published by Coffee Break Languages. We’ve written extensively about this situation on our website. Please do not purchase our content through these apps. The only way to access Coffee Break Italian lesson notes, bonus audio and video versions is through the Coffee Break Academy.
We do not currently offer one-on-one Skype lessons. If this is something which interests you, we would suggest that you sign up with our partner italki where you can access individual teachers and native speakers to practise your Italian. Visit italki.com to get a voucher for $10 USD in italki Credits when you purchase your first lesson.
Sign up for our weekly newsletter to keep up to date with Coffee Break Languages. In each edition we’ll share the latest news and our roundup of cultural and language links from around the web, and we’ll deliver this straight to your inbox every Friday.
Coffee Break Languages is a product of Radio Lingua Ltd.
