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Coffee Break Languages

With Coffee Break Italian you can learn Italian where and when it suits you. In Season 1, you'll join teacher Mark, learner Katie and native speaker Francesca in our 15-minute lessons, and build your confidence in the language, learning Italian from scratch. Take your learning further with Season 2 in which Mark and Francesca are joined by learner Isla.
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Coffee Break Italian

Join Francesca from the Coffee Break Italian team for a coffee break and get ready to improve your Italian over just 10 minutes.

In this little espresso lesson, Francesca explores one of Italy’s favourite pastimes: giocare a carte, playing cards! You’ll also pick up useful phrases like fare le carte (to shuffle the cards), un mazzo (a deck), and even a fun memory trick, come quando fuori piove, to help you remember the order of the suits. ♣️♥️♦️♠️ 

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All the words you need for a card game in Italian | A Coffee Break with Francesca

We're back with a special bonus episode of the Great Coffee Break Treasure Hunt! Join us for a detailed explanation of this year's Treasure Hunt clues. Sit back, relax and enjoy listening to this episode on your next coffee break. ☕️
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Bonus Episode: Clues Explained - La fantastica Caccia al Tresoro

We have reached the last clue of our virtual treasure hunt - La fantastica Caccia al Tesoro di Coffee Break 2025 - which will lead us to the final location! Test your Italian and detective skills as we reveal everything you need to know to determine the last destination. Remember to submit your entry form listing the location from each episode to be in with a chance of winning a prize.

Click here to locate the entry form and for further details about the competition.

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Clue #4 (italiano) | The Great Coffee Break Treasure Hunt 2025

It's time for the third clue of La fantastica Caccia al Tesoro di Coffee Break 2025, our virtual treasure hunt across Europe! Using the interesting facts we provide, and your language skills, can you work out where checkpoint number three is? In case you missed it - everyone who correctly identifies the four mystery locations will win a free month's subscription to the Coffee Break Club, as well as being entered into a prize draw to win lifetime access to our entire collection of Italian courses!

Don't miss out on this exciting adventure - click here for more details.

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Clue #3 (italiano) | The Great Coffee Break Treasure Hunt 2025

We're back with the next episode of La fantastica Caccia al Tesoro di Coffee Break 2025, our virtual treasure hunt across Europe! Join us as we reveal clue number two which takes us one step closer to our final location. As we continue through this mini series we'll discover further clues to help you solve the mystery. Remember, you could be in with a chance of winning some great prizes!

For further details about how you can take part in the treasure hunt and enter the competition, click here.

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Clue #2 (italiano) | The Great Coffee Break Treasure Hunt 2025

Welcome to the first episode of La fantastica Caccia al Tesoro di Coffee Break 2025, our virtual treasure hunt across Europe! Join us in this first episode as we reveal the initial clue. As you continue through this mini series you’ll discover further clues, solve the mystery and practise your Italian.

For further details about how you can take part, click here.

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Clue #1 (italiano) | The Great Coffee Break Treasure Hunt 2025

New mini-series! 

Starting on Monday 20th October, join Mark and the Coffee Break Italian Team for a virtual treasure hunt across Europe, in which we'll discover clues, solve the mystery and practise our Italian.

But this is not just a language lesson – it's a competition! By taking part you could win some amazing prizes to help you take your Italian to the next level. For everything you need to know about this mini series and how to take part in the competition, click here.

We hope you enjoy la fantastica Caccia al Tesoro di Coffee Break 2025!

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Announcing the Great Coffee Break Treasure Hunt 2025

Ready to learn new idioms in Italian? In this mini espresso lesson, Michela explores some Italian idioms inspired by animals, gli animali. 🐾 

Just like in English, animals in Italian are used to describe traits, habits, and everyday situations. You’ll learn how to say things like:

lento come una lumaca • 🐌
sano come un pesce • 🐟 
cavallo di battaglia • 🎶
andare a letto con le galline • 🌙🐓 

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Non solo ‘in bocca al lupo’ - 8 Italian animal idioms | A Coffee Break with Michela

We're back with a new episode, bringing you a little espresso lesson in between the main seasons of Coffee Break Italian. Today, Francesca explores two essential Italian verbs that often cause confusion: imparare (to learn) and insegnare (to teach). 👩‍🎓 👨‍🏫

While they may look similar, they have opposite meanings and different structures. By the end of the episode, you’ll know exactly when to use imparare and when to use insegnare and feel confident putting both into practice.

🎯 You can receive regular free mini-lessons straight to your inbox by signing up for our Coffee Break Italian newsletter. Just go to coffeebreaklanguages.kit.com/newsletter 

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'insegnare' & 'imparare' - What's the difference? | A Coffee Break with Francesca

Michela from the Coffee Break Italian team is back with another espresso-style episode, in which she will help you improve your Italian vocabulary! ☕

In this mini-lesson, you’ll learn three Italian idioms related to autumn:

prendere in castagna • 🌰 
venir su come i funghi • 🍄 
avere sale in zucca • 🎃

Join us for this cosy episode and discover their meaning and how to use these expressions in context. 🍂

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3 Italian idioms related to autumn | A Coffee Break with Michela

How confident are you with the imperative mood to give commands, instructions and suggestions in Italian? Join Francesca and Maurizio in this episode of the Coffee Break Italian Show and learn how to conjugate the imperative mood in tu, voi and Lei forms, as well as learning the irregularities!

➡️ Click here to access the blog article and worksheet that accompany this lesson ⬅️

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How to give commands, instructions and suggestions - The imperative in Italian | CBI Show 2.06

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