Planning your big trip to Germany is so exciting—but you’re not done until you’ve brushed up on common German travel phrases.
I know, I know.
You’ve been daydreaming about skiing in Salzburg…
Or you’ve been mask shopping for …
4 Quick Tips for Mastering German Compound Nouns
Schweinefleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz.
Confused?
That 67 letter monster, if you can believe it, means the “legislative law for the monitoring of pork-meat labeling.”
Everyone has heard that German is a complicated language, but compound nouns like these take the biscuit. Or the …
18 Weird German Words You Won’t Believe Exist
The road to German fluency is full of twists and turns.
Thanks to its lifelong love affair with compound nouns, the German language has smashed all manner of words together to form new, unique vocabulary.
It’s no small …
15 Great German Children’s Books for Beginners
There’s a huge mistake that new language learners tend to make.
Do you know what that is?
We try to run before we can crawl.
Unreasonably high expectations about language progress lead to unnecessary failure, disappointment, frustration.
They’re a major …
36 Essential German Time Phrases and Expressions for Beginners
When you start learning a new language, you suddenly find yourself conversing with people at the level of a small child.
You’ve had to start from the ground up, learning how to say hello, goodbye and common phrases.
Feels …
20 Common German Idioms to Sound Like a Native
Ever find yourself totally baffled in the middle of a German conversation?
Struggling to make sense of seemingly irrelevant comments?
Like, things are going great until your friend says something bizarre about a dancing bear, or dumpling broth. What gives?…
