Coffee Break Japanese
Learn Japanese with teacher Chie and her student Mark. Each lesson is like going for a coffee with your friend who happens to speak Japanese and is helping you learn in a relaxed, enjoyable way.
Coffee Break Japanese is not a simple series of "listen and repeat" audio programmes: in each lesson Chie explains how the language works, helping Mark - and you - to manipulate the language and use it in practical situations. As a learner, Mark asks questions, and makes mistakes, so through Chie's explanations, corrections and pronunciation tips you'll build your confidence and begin to understand and speak the language.
In the same time it takes you to sit down and enjoy a coffee in your favourite coffee shop, you can make progress with your Japanese. Our 20 minute lessons are perfect to keep you focused and let you develop your confidence in regular sessions.
You can find support materials for Coffee Break Japanese in the online course by clicking here here.
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- Update frequency
- every 12 days
- Average duration
- 20 minutes
- Episodes
- 17
- Years Active
- 2025
CBJ 1.14 | Telling the time
Welcome to lesson 14 of Coffee Break Japanese. We're covering an important topic related to numbers in this episode - we're learning about the time and importantly, how to tell the time in Japanese.
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CBJ 1.13 | Japanese food vocabulary
Welcome to Coffee Break Japanese! In lesson thirteen, we’ll continue from what we covered in lesson twelve, which focused on vocabulary and expressions to use at a restaurant. In this lesson, we’ll t…
CBJ 1.12 | Ordering a meal in a restaurant
Welcome to Coffee Break Japanese! In lesson 12, we’ll continue from what we covered in lesson 11, which focused on café vocabulary, including food, snacks, and drinks. This time, we look at practical…
CBJ 1.11 | Ordering drinks in a café
Welcome back to Coffee Break Japanese! We're returning with Lesson 11 in our series and this time, we're helping you learn how to order drinks and snacks in Japanese! By the end of this lesson you'll…
CBJ 1.10 | End-of-unit review
Welcome to Coffee Break Japanese! Join us for lesson 10 and review of all the content we learned from the previous nine lessons of Japanese.
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CBJ 1.09 | Talking about language
Welcome to another lesson of Coffee Break Japanese! In lesson 9 we continue from the previous lesson and learn some useful phrases and verbs to use in Japan. Ready? Let's get started!
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CBJ 1.08 | Places in the town
Welcome to another lesson of Coffee Break Japanese! This time, we expand on previous lessons by discussing how to talk about locations in town. We also learn how to ask for directions to places and h…
CBJ 1.07 | More on numbers and family
Welcome to another lesson of Coffee Break Japanese! In this lesson, we will build upon what we learned in the previous lessons by exploring a wider range of numbers and their uses in everyday convers…
CBJ 1.06 | Jobs and counting
Welcome to another lesson of Coffee Break Japanese! This time, we're continuing from the previous lesson and we're learning how to talk about work and numbers from zero to ten.
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CBJ 1.05 | Talking about your family - Kochira wa dare desu ka？こちら は、誰ですか？
Welcome to Lesson 5 of Coffee Break Japanese! This time, we're learning how to talk about more family members, such as partners and children.
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CBJ 1.04 | Family members - Kochira wa watashi no kazoku desu. マークさん、こちらは、私の家族です。
Welcome back to another episode of Coffee Break Japanese! In lesson four we’re moving on from the previous lesson and we’ll be learning how to talk about family and different family members.
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CBJ 1.03 | Nationalities - Watashi wa Nihon-jin desu. 私は、日本人です。
We're moving on from the previous lesson and learning how to talk about nationalities and where you are from in Japan.
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CBJ 1.02 | Introducing yourself - Hajimemashite はじめまして
In lesson two, we’re moving on from the previous lesson and learning how to greet people at different times of the day. We’ll also learn how to introduce ourselves and ask other people “what is your …
CBJ 1.01 | Greetings - Konnichiwa! こんにちは！
Coffee Break Japanese e yōkoso - welcome to Coffee Break Japanese! This series will introduce you to the Japanese language, starting from the basics. By the end of this series you'll be able to use t…
Coffee Break Japanese - Trailer
Coffee Break Japanese Lesson 1 launches on 6th February. Here's a trailer to let you know what you can expect from the series.
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Introducing Coffee Break Japanese
Coffee Break Japanese: Coming Soon!
Coffee Break Japanese is a podcast for complete beginners in Japanese from Coffee Break Languages. Throughout this 40-lesson series, teacher Chie guides learner Mark from the very beginning of his Ja…