After arriving in Germany, I quickly realized something about German greetings.
Young Germans never used the ones I learned in class.
The only person who said Guten Abend to me was a man in an ice cream shop who looked …
Learn German with Songs: 10 Classic German Music Hits That You Oughta Know
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 …
10 Common German Vocabulary Words With Surprising Meanings
English has many words that are exactly the same in German.
For example: warm, blond, finger, etc.
And there are German words that sound like English and are, in fact, cognates.
For example: Bett (bed), Fisch (fish), leicht…
Learn German with Movies: 10 Great Movies for Learning Real German
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 …
4 Quick Tips for Learning German Word Order
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 …
Learn German Through Music: 8 Modern Classics to Get Started
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.
