Welcome to the Romance Language Cafe!

What is the Romance Language Cafe?

The Romance Language Cafe is a unique online language cafe – because here, we don’t limit ourselves to just one language. Instead, we want to bring together students who speak any Romance language for a plurilingual exchange. That means: You speak Italian, your conversation partner speaks French, someone else speaks Romanian – and you can still understand each other!

How is that possible?

Thanks to their common origin, Romance languages have similar vocabulary (e.g. es. universidad, pt. universidad, fr. université, it. università, ro. universitate) and comparable grammar structures, i.e. a high degree of mutual intelligibility – even if you’ve never studied the other language!

Improve your language skills and discover new Romance languages

The Romance Language Cafe helps you practice expressing yourself clearly and accessibly, even for people who don’t speak your exact language. You’ll develop cross-language communication strategies, such as:

• slowing down your speech
• repeating and paraphrasing words and phrases
• using words with shared roots across languages
• supporting your speech with gestures or visual cues

Whether you're brushing up your language skills, exploring new varieties, or just curious about how far Romance-language understanding can go — join us and be part of a plurilingual experience!