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...
Coffee Break German
CBG 2.27 | Wir sollten wirklich nach Zürich fahren
In this lesson we’re dealing with what, on the surface, seems like a tricky topic: the use of the verb sollen. We’ll learn to use the verb in the Present and...
CBG 2.26 | Kommst du jeden Dienstag mit dem Fahrrad zur Deutschklassen?
In this lesson we’re tackling a tricky subject for learners of German: word order. In particular we’re looking at where adverbs come “inside the...
CBG 2.25 | Ich habe mich sehr gut entspannt
It’s time to look at reflexive verbs in the past. In this lesson you’ll learn to say what you enjoyed, what you complained about and what you looked forward to,...
CBG 2.24 | Wovor fürchtest du dich?
In this episode you’ll learn to use reflexive verbs in German. In addition to being able to talk about “washing yourself” and “scratching...
CBG 2.23 | Hilfst du deinen Kindern bei ihren Hausaufgaben?
We’ve already covered the topic of family in Coffee Break German, but in this lesson you’ll learn how to talk about your extended family, and deal with possessive...
CBG 2.22 | Mein Vater wohnte lange in einem kleinen Dorf
So far in Coffee Break German we’ve learned to use haben, sein and some modal verbs in the Präteritum. In this lesson Andrea and Mark look at other verbs in the...
CBG 2.21 | Als ich ein Kind war, durfte ich nicht so viel fernsehen
In this lesson you’ll learn to talk about rules and regulations in the past using the Präteritum of the modal verbs dürfen and müssen. By the end of the lesson...
CBG 2.20 | Als ich 20 war, wollte ich Astronautin werden
This lesson marks the end of the first half of our second season of Coffee Break German. Mark and Andrea take the opportunity to review the topics covered in lessons 11 to 19...
CBG 2.19 | Wie alt warst du, als du Deutsch lernen wolltest?
In the last lesson we looked at the Präteritum, the past tense form which is commonly used with verbs such as sein, haben and so on. In this lesson, we’ll be taking the...
CBG 2.18 | Wie alt warst du, als du ein Handy gekauft hast?
This episode of Coffee Break German introduces the verbs sein and haben and how they are used in the past. In fact, these verbs use a different tense, the Präteritum, or...
CBG 2.17 | Ich habe die Hausaufgaben nicht gemacht, weil der Hund sie gefressen hat
In this episode we’re focusing on the use of weil with the Perfect Tense and you’ll be learning to give excuses as to why you arrived late and why you...
CBG 2.16 | Schokolade schmeckt vielen Leuten
In this lesson we’re looking further at the dative case and specifically at verbs which need the dative like geben, schicken, schenken, antworten and helfen....
CBG 2.15 | Mark fragt, ob Heidelberg schön ist
This lesson focuses on the topic of asking questions, both “open” questions using the W Fragewörter, and more closed questions which are more likely be answered...
CBG 2.14 | Mark hat bemerkt, dass diese Lektion schwierig ist
Learn how to gossip in German! In this lesson we’ll be looking at reported speech and how this works with dass. You’ll learn how to say who said what to whom, of...