Introducing

Coffee Break German

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Free podcasts

Listen to our free podcasts and learn or improve your German on the go, where and when it suits you.

Online courses

Take the next step and sign up for a course on the Coffee Break Academy, accessing video materials, lesson notes and bonus audio content.

Join in

Improve your vocabulary, build your language skills and keep up with the Coffee Break German team on social media.

Latest lessons

We publish regular lessons both in the Coffee Break German podcast feed and on our YouTube channel. Here’s a selection of our most recent lessons.

A guide to forming questions in German

How do you ask questions in German? Questions are essential to every conversation and will always be part of your interactions when visiting a German-speaking country. So, read on, as...

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Choose your level ...

Coffee Break German is currently available in two levels, represented by each “season”. Each season features 40 lessons.

Absolute beginners

Your first steps

Your first steps

Learn to use German confidently when travelling, ordering food and drinks, making friends and shopping in an German-speaking country.
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Lower Intermediate

Taking it further

Taking it further

Build your knowledge from Season 1, learn to use German grammar to "say what you want to say" and become more confident.
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Upper Intermediate

Moving on

Moving on

Look at more advanced grammar and build your range of expression with lively conversations and explanations.
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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 German Magazine course.

Your Coffee Break ... your way

Free podcasts

Each Season of Coffee Break German 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!

Online course

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.

Free podcasts

Audio content for all seasons
Free
  • Audio podcasts

Online course (£GBP)

per season of 40 lessons
£ 120
00
One-off purchase
  • 40 Audio lessons
  • 40 Bonus audio lessons
  • 40 Video lessons
  • 40 Lesson notes

Online course ($USD)

per season of 40 lessons
$ 145
00
One-off purchase
  • 40 Audio lessons
  • 40 Bonus audio lessons
  • 40 Video lessons
  • 40 Lesson notes

Please note that all prices include tax or VAT where applicable.

Join the conversation

Join the conversation with the Coffee German team on social media! We post regular language and cultural information on Facebook, and you can keep up with Coffee Break Languages on Instagram.

Facebook

Follow Coffee Break German on Facebook and practise your language skills with our cultural and language posts three times a week.

Twitter

Keep up to date with our latest news and lessons. You can find us on Twitter where we're @learngerman.

YouTube

Over on the Coffee Break Languages YouTube channel, you'll find useful videos to help you improve your Italian. Read on for more information.

Instagram

Come behind the scenes with the Coffee Break team, and build your vocabulary and understanding with our regular Instagram stories. Follow @coffeebreaklanguages .

Season 1

Season 2

Season 3

The Coffee Break German Magazine

Our latest lessons

We publish regular lessons both in the Coffee Break German podcast feed and on our YouTube channel. Here’s a selection of our most recent lessons.

Coffee Break German
Ava (Coffee Break Team)

Compound nouns – breaking down long German words

You may have already come across some long German words in your experience as a German learner – and they can be very long! Why does this happen? It’s mostly because German allows us to join different words together to

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Coffee Break German
Ava (Coffee Break Team)

An introduction to German cases

When we start to learn German, one of the most important steps is to get our heads around cases of nouns and pronouns. For that reason, it’s time for a crash course on cases in German! The Coffee Break German

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Coffee Break German
Ava (Coffee Break Team)

How to use the formal ‘you’ in German

It’s time to get to know “you”! Saying “you” in German is slightly more complicated than in English, but what an important word it is. It won’t surprise you that the word “you”’ is one of the most commonly used

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Frequently Asked Questions

Coffee Break German 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 German. In the audio podcasts you’ll be able to build your understanding of German 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:

  • full versions of each audio lesson;
  • a video version of the lesson which allows you to see the “words on the screen” as you listen;
  • bonus audio content allowing you to consolidate your learning futher;
  • lesson notes with vocabulary and additional explanations.

If you’re serious about learning German 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 £120.00 GBP or $145.00 USD. Please see above for further information on pricing.

We do not currently have an app version of Coffee Break German. 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 German 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 German. Visit italki.com to get a voucher for $10 USD in italki Credits when you purchase your first lesson.

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