CBG 1:11 | Ordering drinks in a café

Introduction

We’re back with a new episode of Coffee Break German, the first in a new season of ten lessons which focus on practical German you’ll need on a trip to a German-speaking country. In this episode you’ll be learning to order drinks – and coffees – in a café. Coffee Break German comes to you from the Radio Lingua Network. In weekly episodes you’ll join native speaker Thomas who’ll be teaching learner Mark in gradual, structured lessons. The episodes also feature Kirsten, our Grammar Guru, and Julia, our Cultural Correspondent.

Coming up in this lesson…

Lesson 11 focuses on the topic of ordering drinks in cafés. You will learn:

the words for various hot and cold drinks; how to use the indefinite article (the word for “a”) in German; useful expressions for ordering drinks in a café; the plural forms of the verb kommen in the present tense; about the culture of Kaffeetrinken in German-speaking areas. Listen to the...