Coffee Break Spanish

Welcome back to Erna’s Café - our charming Spanish café, where the aroma of fresh coffee lingers, conversations flow, and life unfolds around every table. In this immersive series, we follow a compelling story set in a local café and help you build your language skills naturally through storytelling.

In Un día de diez, Isabel reflects on a day where everything seems to align perfectly. With moments of joy, unexpected news, and the café filled with life, this day proves that sometimes even the smallest things can make the biggest difference.

Hoy el día ha sido de lo más especial. A lo largo de la jornada, las sorpresas se han ido sucediendo sin cesar. Mientras el bar rebosaba de energía y risas, Isabel se ha visto inmersa en una serie de acontecimientos que no olvidará. Algo tan simple como un pequeño detalle ha sido capaz de cambiar el rumbo de este día, llevándolos a todos a un momento de celebración y buen rollo.

This is a chapter you won’t want to miss!

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Welcome back to Erna’s Café - our charming Spanish café, where the aroma of fresh coffee lingers, conversations flow, and life unfolds around every table. In this immersive series, we follow a compelling story set in a local café and help you build your language skills naturally through storytelling.

In Despedidas, Isabel witnesses a tender farewell between two close friends. One of them is about to start a new chapter in Chile, and today, they’re enjoying their last coffee together at Isabel’s café.

Después de una mañana lluviosa, el sol aparece y, entre risas y charlas, pasan horas en la terraza. Isabel observa cómo la mujer le da a su amigo un regalo muy especial. Un gesto que le llama la atención y la conmueve profundamente.

¿Qué pasará cuando se despidan? No te pierdas este capítulo tan emotivo.

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Welcome back to Erna’s Café - our charming Spanish café, where the aroma of fresh coffee lingers, conversations flow, and life unfolds around every table. In this immersive series, we follow a compelling story set in a local café and help you build your language skills naturally through storytelling.

In ¡Por fin, jubilado!, Isabel reconnects with don Julián, a retired doctor who’s feeling a bit lost after leaving his career behind. After 37 years in the hospital, he’s not sure how to fill his days. The sudden shift to retirement has left him uncertain about what comes next.

Don Julián entra al bar de Isabel para hablar de su jubilación y de cuáles son las ventajas y desafíos que encuentra. Quizás Isabel tenga algunos consejos para él.

In this chapter, you’ll discover the different meanings of aprovechar, and review how to express the idea of llevar tiempo haciendo algo in Spanish.

¡No te pierdas este cuarto episodio si te pica la curiosidad! Want to take your learning further? Click here to access support materials and get more out of each chapter.

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Welcome back to Erna’s Café - our charming Spanish café, where the aroma of fresh coffee lingers, conversations flow, and life unfolds around every table. In this immersive series, we follow a compelling story set in a local café and build your language skills naturally through storytelling.

In this heartwarming chapter, Isabel experiences a quiet morning at the café, as her usual older customers settle in for their coffee. But everything changes when a mother and her two daughters arrive.

En este capítulo, entran al bar una madre con sus dos hijas. Las tres mujeres están emocionadas y muy concentradas hablando de presupuestos, recortes de telas y vestidos. ¿Qué estarán preparando?

Language wise, Mark and Pablo highlight useful vocabulary like recortes and presupuesto, and delve into spelling changes that you’ll need to watch out for in Spanish.

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Welcome back to Erna’s Café - our charming Spanish café, where the aroma of fresh coffee lingers, conversations flow, and life unfolds around every table. In this immersive series, we follow a compelling story set in a local café and help build your language skills naturally through storytelling.

Get ready to discover a surprising turn of events in the second chapter of this season, Noticias reguleras. What begins as a peaceful Sunday at Isabel's café soon becomes anything but ordinary.

Isabel, como siempre, disfruta de su tranquila rutina dominical con clientes habituales, pero hoy, algo cambia. Tres jóvenes se sientan en la barra y una conversación que empieza con tono alegre pronto se torna más seria. 

In this chapter, Mark and Pablo explore some fascinating perífrasis verbales and explain the meaning of ojiplático, alongside plenty of useful vocabulary and expressions to help you boost your Spanish skills.

¿Te gustaría saber más? Then don’t miss the new chapter of Scenes!

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Welcome back to Season 2 of Scenes from the Coffee Break Spanish Café! ¡Bienvenidos a la nueva temporada de Scenes!

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​If you joined us in Season 1 then you will already be familiar with Isabel’s café - our charming Spanish café, where the aroma of fresh coffee lingers, conversations flow, and life unfolds around every table. In this immersive series, you’ll follow a compelling story set in a local café and build your language skills naturally through storytelling.

Get ready to return to Isabel’s café, where every day brings something unexpected. In the first chapter of this new season, Elencuentro, Isabel finds herself in the middle of an intriguing situation, without even trying.

Miguel, el abogado que se tomó el café de la suerte en la temporada anterior, vuelve al bar de Isabel con muy buenas noticas. No obstante, parece que el café de la suerte trajo más suerte de la esperada y Miguel conocerá a una persona… especial. ¿Surgirá el amor (o el interés) entre ellos?

Join us to discover what happens when fate (and coffee!) bring people together. This chapter also introduces useful expressions like dar la enhora buena and congeniar, and gives you a chance to practise the subjunctive in relative clauses.

✨ ¿Quieres saber más? Entonces, no te pierdas este primer capítulo.

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• Chapter text 
• Audio discussion
• Lesson notes / transcript featuring additional examples
• Vocabulary lists
• Exercises
• Interactive quizzes to check your understanding
• Downloadable files for offline use
• Lifetime access to all lessons

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Ready for another mini Coffee Break Spanish lesson? This time, Anabel dives into one of Spain’s most fascinating festive traditions: El Gordo de Navidad, the famous Christmas lottery! 🎄💰

It’s the perfect mini lesson to discover more about Spanish culture while picking up natural language you can use right away. ✨

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Join Pablo from the Coffee Break Spanish team in another useful little espresso lesson. ☕

In this episode, he explores a set of everyday expressions that use “to be” in English but “tener” in Spanish. You’ll learn to say things like:

❄️ tener frío 

🍽 tener hambre 

💪 tener razón

and much more!

These are super common expressions that every learner needs, perfect for sounding more natural in daily conversations!

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We’re back with another mini Coffee Break Spanish lesson to help you build natural, everyday vocabulary! ✨

In this short episode, Anabel introduces five useful Spanish words that don’t have a direct translation into English:

➡️ trasnochar

➡️ madrugar

➡️ estrenar

➡️ empalagar

➡️ friolero/a

Do you already know any of them? Listen to the episode to discover what they mean and how to use them naturally in conversation. 🗣️

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Join Mark and Pablo for this special episode of Coffee Break Spanish where we're talking about something a bit different.

We receive emails and messages all the time asking us "where should I start?", so we thought we'd answer that in this episode. We share details about how Coffee Break Spanish first started back in 2006 - and all of the Spanish resources we have released since then.

We hope you enjoy hearing about the history of Coffee Break, with a few secrets revealed along the way!

The links mentioned at the end of this episode are listed below:

• Find out more about Coffee Break Spanish here
• Access our full range of Spanish courses on the Coffee Break Academy
• Learn more about Coffee Break TV here

Please note that the secret link mentioned was part of our Black Friday 2025 promotion which has now ended.

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