Meet the Team: Pierre-Benoît
My name is Pierre-Benoît Hériaud and I feel very proud, privileged and honoured to say that I have been working with Radio Lingua since the very beginning! ☺ What is...
Blog
Do you know your panenka from your pipoqueiro?
Football fans across the world are champing at the bit. The FIFA World Cup is kicking off and we are here to celebrate this coming together of nations sharing their love for...
Meet the team: Julia
Guten Tag! My name is Julia and I’m part of the Coffee Break German team where I work as the Cultural Correspondent. While spending a year abroad in Scotland and working as a...
Meet the Team: Marina
¡Hola! My name is Marina and I started working with Radio Lingua in March 2015 while I was working in Glasgow as a Language Assistant. I first studied Spanish Philology at...
How to say “Cheers” in Irish … and much more!
Here at Coffee Break Languages we want to help share our love of languages with a worldwide community of language learners, and that’s why we’re celebrating St...
Meet the Team: Géraldine
My name is Géraldine and I am part of the Coffee Break French crew for Radio Lingua. I have been working with the team since October 2013 when I was living in Glasgow....
10 words to make you fall more in love with Italian
Let’s face it. Everybody loves the sound of the Italian language. There is a charming “singsongy” aspect to it that is absolutely undeniable. How can we resist its...
Meet the Team: Francesca
Ciao, I’m Francesca and, as you can guess, I’m Italian! I’m a teacher of Italian as foreign language and I have been in this profession for over a decade. I joined Radio...
Ab Donnerstag im Kino: our top six film recommendations for German learners
What better time is there to celebrate recent films from the German-speaking world than in the run-up to the 67th annual Berlin International Film Festival, taking place next...
Practice makes perfect: 1-on-1 lessons with italki
Since 2006 we’ve been providing language courses for learners around the world and we believe that Coffee Break provides the perfect solution for learners starting out with a...
Meet the team: Flora
Hello! My name’s Flora, and I’m Radio Lingua’s Content Production Assistant. I’ve been working with Radio Lingua since October 2016, when I started as an intern during my 5th...
Introducing the Coffee Break Reading Club
Here at Coffee Break Languages, we’ve been very busy putting together a brand new course in response to the Coffee Break community’s requests for more reading...
¡Es intraducible! Our 10 favourite untranslatable Spanish words
Have you ever learned a new word in a different language and wondered how on earth you would translate it into English? Have you then started to doubt your translation skills,...
Meet the Team: Crystal
My name is Crystal and I work with Mark to develop and record Coffee Break Chinese. I graduated with a Bachelor degree of English and International Business from Shanghai...
5 reasons why learning Hungarian is “csodálatos” (wonderful!)
Hungarian is spoken by roughly 14 million people in eastern Europe. It’s the official language, of course, in Hungary, and it’s also spoken in parts of Romania, Slovakia and...