While I drink my coffeeAbout the magazine and sources
“While I drink my coffee” is a personal, non-commercial project for practising Spanish, French and English and learning the Armenian alphabet, made by Sofia P.; send questions, ideas and mistakes you spot to whiledrinkingcoffee.mag@gmail.com or use the “Send feedback” button at the bottom of the page.
How the texts and pictures are made
The issue texts are written with AI: I choose the topics and we come up with the stories together. The illustrations are also made with AI. The site itself contains no AI: the dictionary, examples and writing check run on rules, right in your browser.
Not a textbook
The magazine is for enjoyment and practice. Texts, translations and exercises may contain mistakes, and the automatic writing check only catches typical ones. For exam preparation or serious study, a teacher is a better guide. If you spot a mistake, let me know and I will fix it.
Sources and licences
- Dictionaries: Spanish uses Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA) as compiled in doozan/spanish_data, with the FrequencyWords list (CC BY-SA 3.0); French uses FreeDict, GPL-2.0 or later; English uses Princeton WordNet (WordNet licence) and Russian–English pairs from OpenRussian (CC BY-SA 4.0), with the FrequencyWords list. Russian glosses and core entries are original.
- Map of Spain: @svg-maps/spain by Victor Cazanave, CC BY 4.0.
- Map of French regions: Etalab / IGN Admin Express, contours administratifs, ODbL 1.0.
- Map of the US states: US Census Bureau cartographic boundary files (public domain) via us-atlas (ISC).
- Playing cards: @letele/playing-cards, CC0.
- Fonts: Montserrat, Newsreader and Shrikhand, plus Noto Sans Armenian and Noto Serif Armenian in the Armenian section and Noto Sans Georgian and Noto Serif Georgian in the Georgian section, SIL Open Font License; served from this site.
- Armenian course: Eastern Armenian, reformed spelling; Dora Sakayan, Eastern Armenian for the English-Speaking World (2007). Writing practice checks printed letter shapes. Course.
- Georgian course: modern standard Georgian, Mkhedruli script; Georgian Language & Culture (Berkeley), Peace Corps Georgian Language Lessons. Writing-practice stroke order is derived from the letter shapes and not yet checked against school copybooks. Open the course.
- Region and state texts are original short summaries; each page links to its primary source.
Updated: 28 October 2026, Privacy