French false friends: a 15-word quiz

French is full of idioms that are borrowed from the animal world, and once you know them you'll start hearing them everywhere. In this episode, Max walks you through seven of the most common ones, from "avoir le cafard" to "se jeter dans la gueule du loup", with the literal meani ...  Show more

In this episode, Max looks at five everyday meanings of the French verb 'passer':passing something or someonespending timesitting an examhow something turns outshowing or broadcasting something on screenIt's a small word that does a lot of work, and knowing its different uses wil ...  Show more

In this latest episode of Coffee Break German you’ll realise how much you’ve learned since you started following the course by listening to a conversation using lots of the language you’ve covered so far. This lesson is a review of the language covered so far in our course. Th ...

In this latest episode of Coffee Break German you’ll be taking your German skills a stage further. In this lesson you’ll learn:

In this episode of Coffee Break German you'll be amazed when you realise how far you've come, as you review everything you have learned so far in Season 2. Andrea and Mark talk about the topic from this unit such as cases and adjective agreements, adverbs, using denn and weil ...

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 with lots of new examples, helping you build your vocabulary and practise the grammar points at the sa ...