Author Archive | Alan

We are really excited to share some good news.

The wait is over!

Now anyone can sign up for FluentU German!

If you’ve been waiting for access, you can try it right away.

In case you didn’t know, FluentU German …

So Germany won the 2014 World Cup!

If you’ve already talked to your German friends about German movies or music, why not talk about football as well?

There’s no better time to add football words to your German vocabulary…

It sounds so cool to learn German with songs…

Until you remember that you don’t know any.

How can you fill your playlists with popular German songs that you’d actually hear in Germany?

That’s exactly what we’ll show in …

Struggling to understand your friend from Basel?

Not sure why that Viennese man told you to “greet God”?

Recognizing regional dialects and slang are key to understanding the German language. With somewhere between 50 and 250 dialects, you better start …

What’s the hardest part of learning German?

For English speakers, it just might be German word order.

The German word order, when you translate it literally into English, comes out looking like some kind of bizarre, Shakespearian knot that needs …

What’s the best way to learn German?

Flashcards?

Traditional German classes?

Thankfully there are less conventional and more fun ways to learn German—like learning German through songs and music.

Why Learn German Through Songs and Music?

First, it’s easier to …