• Coffee Break Conversations - Season Preview
    Jun 10 2020

    Coffee Break Conversations is a new podcast in which we talk about life, learning and languages. Over the past 14 years, Coffee Break Languages podcasts have helped millions of language learners around the world learn French, Spanish, German, Italian, Mandarin Chinese, Swedish and English. In this new podcast we’re going to be having conversations with some of these learners. In other episodes we’ll be talking to some language professionals, people who spend their days working in the field of languages, and we’ll also be getting to know some of the people behind Coffee Break, and sharing tips and tricks to help you in your own journey of learning a language.


    Find out more about Coffee Break Conversations on our website at https://radiolingua.com/coffee-break-conversations


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    10 mins
  • A Coffee Break Conversation with Francesca from Coffee Break Italian
    Jun 17 2020

    In Coffee Break Conversations we talk about life, learning and languages, and in this video episode Mark talks to Coffee Break Italian host Francesca. Francesca talks about her experience learning and teaching languages, and has an important message for listeners: sbagliando s’impara: you learn by making mistakes.


    Find out more about Coffee Break Conversations on our website at https://radiolingua.com/coffee-break-conversations


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    22 mins
  • A Coffee Break Conversation with French learner Katherine
    Jun 24 2020

    Welcome to the second episode of Coffee Break Conversations! This week, we’re going to turn things around because we’re speaking to Coffee Break learner Katherine, who has experienced what it’s like to learn French from scratch using Coffee Break content. Katherine tells us how she incorporated her passion for French into her career path. 


    Find out more about Coffee Break Conversations on our website at https://radiolingua.com/coffee-break-conversations


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    24 mins
  • A Coffee Break Conversation with polyglot Kris Broholm
    Jul 1 2020

    Welcome back to our brand-new interview podcast, Coffee Break Conversations, in which we talk about life, learning and languages. This week, we speak to Kris Broholm from the Actual Fluency podcast. Hailing from Denmark, Kris is, in his own words, a “language journalist; a researcher, documenter, and ‘helper’ to empower other language learners”.


    For more information about Kris' podcast and to access his language-learning resources, head to the Actual Fluency website: actualfluency.com.


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    33 mins
  • A Coffee Break Conversation with Italian learner Nicole
    Jul 8 2020

    Welcome back to another episode of Coffee Break Conversations! This week, we’re speaking to Coffee Break learner Nicole, from England, whose love of the Italian language began back in 2015 after a trip to Rome. 


    Find out more about Coffee Break Conversations on our website at https://radiolingua.com/coffee-break-conversations


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    19 mins
  • A Coffee Break Conversation with Spanish learner Yevgeni
    Jul 15 2020

    In this week's episode of Coffee Break Conversations we're speaking to Coffee Spanish learner, Yevgeni, from the Republic of Tatarstan in Russia. You'll hear how Yevgeni’s language learning has become an integrated part of his daily routine, and you may even get the chance to dabble in some Russian and Tatar!


    For more information on the resources mentioned in the episode, click on the following links - Ominglot: omniglot.com and the WikiTongues Project: wikitongues.org.


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    15 mins
  • A Coffee Break Conversation with Ben Curtis from Notes in Spanish
    Jul 22 2020

    We're back with another episode of Coffee Break Conversations, a series in which we talk about life, learning and languages. Last week, we heard the story of Yevgeni, a Coffee Break Spanish learner and, this week, we’re continuing our Spanish theme as we're speaking to Ben Curtis from the Notes in Spanish podcast. We discuss the importance of making mistakes when learning a language and how a little language can go a long way!


    For more information about Notes in Spanish, click here: notesinspanish.com 


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    17 mins
  • A Coffee Break Conversation with French learner Stephen
    Jul 29 2020
    In this episode of Coffee Break Conversations we're talking to Stephen, a Coffee Break French learner from California. Stephen explains that even if you're not able to access native speakers of the language you're learning, there are still ways in which you create a daily immersive learning experience: "the more ways you can go about exposing yourself to a language, the richer and more rewarding the experience will be".

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    20 mins