Coffee Break German - All You Need To Know
11/17/202541 min
Join Mark and Thomas for this special episode of Coffee Break German 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 German first started and all of the 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!
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First 90 secondsMark· Host0:00
Hallo und herzlich willkommen zu Coffee Break German. Ich bin Mark.
Thomas· Host0:03
Mein Name ist Thomas.
Mark· Host0:04
And today we have a special episode of Coffee Break German for you.
Thomas· Host0:08
Das stimmt. Los geht's.
Mark· Host0:09
[Musik] Also, wie geht's dir, Thomas?
Thomas· Host0:17
Oh, gut, danke Mark. Wie geht's dir?
Mark· Host0:20
Sehr, sehr, sehr gut. Äh, aber ich brauche meinen Kaffee.
Thomas· Host0:23
Ja, es ist schon 'n bisschen spät am Tag. Das stimmt, äh, aber ich bin gespannt, um was unsere spezielle Episode heut geht.
Mark· Host0:30
Yeah, this is indeed a special episode of, of the Coffee Break German, äh, Podcast, but also we're doing it as a video podcast as well today. But w-what we thought we would do is talk through, in a sense, the Coffee Break German story, how it all came about, why we decided to start this, and talk about all the range of courses and the resources that we have available.
Thomas· Host0:52
That sounds like a good, uh, idea. There's quite a lot to talk about. [laughs] And I guess lots of people are interested how it all started and, like, what, what we did and who was involved when.
Mark· Host1:02
Yeah.
Thomas· Host1:03
And, uh, maybe there's some ... I don't know whether you share any secret insights about- [laughs] Maybe some secrets, some Coffee Break German secrets.
Mark· Host1:10
[laughs] Who knows? Who knows?
Thomas· Host1:12
No, sounds good.
Mark· Host1:13
So- So where, where did it start? Where did it start? Well, uh, way back in 2006, which feels like decades ago, [laughs] really does.
Thomas· Host1:21
It, uh, is a long time ago.
Mark· Host1:21
Um, we-- Well, I, I was-- still had a day job, and it so happened- Yeah ... that podcasting had, had come on the scene