descriptions

Coffee Break Italian

How to describe people and things using Italian adjectives

Learning Italian adjectives is a fundamental step in mastering the Italian language. After all, adjectives help you bring phrases to life, allowing you to describe people, objects, and situations. It doesn’t matter if you are describing someone’s appearance, talking about clothing or discussing colours, these little words are essential to your communication. In this blog

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Coffee Break German

A review of German sentence structure for beginners

Getting a handle on German sentence structure is super important for anyone diving into the language! It might seem a bit tricky at first with its unique word order, verb placement, and those separable prefixes, but don’t worry – once you understand the basics, it becomes easier! In this blog post, we’ll take a look

Coffee Break Spanish Magazine – Episode 204

Welcome to this latest edition of the Coffee Break Spanish Magazine. In this episode: Alba asks, ¿cómo te describiría tu mejor amigo o amiga? – how would your best friend describe you? Mark joins Fernanda on a virtual tour of Machu Picchu in Peru; and JP and Nahyeli answer a question from listener Ezgi who

Coffee Break French

Season 3 – Lesson 18 – Coffee Break French

We knew you’d be desperate to find out how Katie got on at the Cannes Film Festival with Jérôme, so we’re sticking with Katie’s diary entries this week. In this episode you’ll hear a full account of her evening in Cannes with Jérôme and his parents, and you’ll also hear how things have developed between

Coffee Break Spanish

Season 2 – Lesson 17 – Coffee Break Spanish

It’s time to put into practice what you’ve been learning about the preterite tense. In this week’s episode Mark challenges Kara to an identity quiz using lots of preterite tenses to describe the lives of the mystery personalities. Please note that lesson 17 of Season 2 was originally known as lesson 217 of Coffee Break

Coffee Break Spanish

Season 2 – Lesson 10 – Coffee Break Spanish

In episode 10 of Coffee Break Spanish Season 2 we’re putting what we’ve learned in recent weeks about descriptions to the test with an identity game. Please note that lesson 10 of Season 2 was originally known as lesson 210 of Coffee Break Spanish. We have renumbered the lessons of each season as lessons 1-40

Coffee Break Spanish

Season 2 – Lesson 09 – Coffee Break Spanish

This week on Coffee Break Spanish Season 2 we’re taking a further look at adjectives and we’ll be doing more practice using adjectives and making them agree with the word they describe. We’ll also take a look at describing people, including talking about hair and eyes. Please note that lesson 09 of Season 2 was

Coffee Break Spanish

Season 2 – Lesson 08 – Coffee Break Spanish

An easy way of extending your range of language is by using adjectives, and this lesson of Coffee Break Spanish looks at adjectives in detail. In Spanish adjectives have to “agree” with the word they describe and you’ll learn the rules of adjective agreements. Please note that lesson 8 of Season 2 was originally known