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Jul 2020
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A Coffee Break Conversation with French ...

COFFEE BREAK LANGUAGES
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In this episode of Coffee Break Conversations we're talking to Stephen, a Coffee Break French learner from California. Stephen explains that even if you're not able to access native speakers of the language you're learning, there are still ways in which you create a daily immersive learning experience: "the more ways you can go about exposing yourself to a language, the richer and more rewarding the experience will be".

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