Berlin’s alternative and anarchic nightlife can be suitable for almost everyone. If you are visiting for a weekend, or having been living here for some time, you want to be well-prepared to know how to address in German your party mood or you after day hangover state. Deutsche Welle listed ten curious points to be […]
If you thought that you could salute everyone in Germany with a universal “Guten Tag”, think again… Germany is wonderful also due to its regionalisms and we already talked about interesting regional differences here. Greetings are important in every language, they allow us to approach native speakers and (at least try) to embark in a […]
Several foreigners arrive in Germany without speaking a word of the language. To those thinking that they can live happily without any knowledge of German, you’ll soon think twice. We put together a list of 15 situations that exemplify why you need, and should want, to learn German when in Germany. 1. At the pharmacy […]
By now we all know it, whether through our German class or in our everyday encounter with native speakers, German is a tricky language to master. One of the reasons is surely its very, very extensive vocabulary. Yet not all of the words are as long as a sentence, some are very small and although […]
Learning German can daunting, fun and frustrating all at once. It is a test of patience and will, but it many cases it is not as difficult as it seems. For this reason we have put together a balanced list of 5 reasons by which learning German can be really hard, and 5 reasons by […]
Anna Dushime from BuzzFeed Germany wrote a very interesting and funny article about the thoughts that pass your mind when you live in Germany and German is not your first language. 1.In a sentence it is hard to grasp where and when words begin and end Example: Grundstücksverkehrsgenehmigungszuständigkeitsübertragungsverordnung Lifetime / Via giphy.com 2. […]
Dog weather or monkey heat?German will always make us chuckle with its original association of ideas. For all those metereopathics out there, here are six of the most interesting German sayings (already cited by The Local) on the weather. 1. Das Hundewetter Recalling the English expression “it’s raining cats and dogs”, Hundewetter is the perfect […]
When entering a German course, as much as in everyday life in Germany, the first questions you will find yourself to answer are always the ones about yourself. To avoid finding yourself without words, or struggling to hold the first conversation with native speakers, we have put together ten useful sentences to help you present […]
German is not only the language found on dictionaries and in school. Here is a list of nine words used in everyday life that you won’t find in books. After years of German language courses, you might think that you are ready for the big step: to converse with mother tongue speakers. Yet, when speaking […]
Every language has its own array of tongue twisters that have no purpose beyond than to test our ability to pronounce correctly words that share a similar sound. One of their defining features is their nonsense and impossibility to translate them in a different language, precisely due to the fact that the sound of the […]