Frequently Asked Questions
FAQs
Practice English • Meet People
Please visit the Find a Café Near You page.
You will receive an email with the details of the Café (time and place or online link). Each week, you will receive a conversation guide with the discussion questions for that week’s topic.
Yes, you can start anytime.
No. We’d love for you to come every week, but you don’t need to.
Our Cafés are made for an intermediate level or a Canadian Language Benchmark level 5/6. We hope to have Cafés for other levels in the future.
All of our Café volunteers have a minimum English level of CLB 8. Our volunteers may be
Canadians, native English speakers, or internationals.
All of our volunteers are trained to facilitate a Conversation Café, but most of them are not certified English language learning (ELL) teachers.
Yes! Please invite your friends.
Yes! We would love to meet them.
Please visit the How Does a Café Work? page.
If you don’t see a Café in your city, please tell us. You are welcome to join one of our online Cafés. We will add more Cafés.
Yes, all English language learners are welcome.
Yes, all English language learners are welcome.