Angelika Davey 
You’ve been learning German for a while now and then you see sentences with parts that look like this: Shall we make some sense of this? Okay, let look at the easiest one: daß The reason why I call it easy is that it’s obsolete. Since the German spelling reform in 1996, the word ‘daß’ … Read more
If you want to say that you like something in German, you have several choices. You can use ‘mögen’, verb + ‘gern(e)’, finden + ‘gut’ or ‘gefallen’. Mögen gets conjugated and used like a modal verb, except you should use is without a second verb. How do you conjugate it? How do you use it? … Read more
“Je”, this tiny word of just two letters can give you lots of different meaning. Short for jeweils (every, each) or jemals (ever). Hast du je(mals) so ein leckeres Stück Kuchen gegessen? – Have you ever eaten such a nice piece of cake? Das war die schlimmste Zugfahrt, die ich je(mals) gemacht habe. – That … Read more
Welcome to the October edition of the German Action for Happiness Calendars. As before, you can if you wish also print out a PDF version. And if you want or need to, you can see it here in English, where you also find further foreign languages. Use the following sentences as a German reading and translation exercise and act on … Read more
This post contains affiliate links to Amazon. It means I’ll get a few pence if you buy anything – at no extra cost to you. EDIT: The cook and learn website doesn’t seem to get updated anymore, but there are still a lot of nice recipes for you to try out. When you start learning … Read more
Theodor Storm (full name Hans Theodor Wolsen Storm was born on 14 September 1817 in Husum, Germany, close to the Danish border. He died on 4 July 1888. He studied law but then became one of the most important authors of 19th-century German Literary realism. At school in Germany we had to read some of … Read more
Whether you learn German on your own or you want to add to your class learning, to get the full experience you should practise all four skills: reading, listening, speaking and writing. This is particularly important when you need German for your work or because you will be living in Germany. It’s not quite so … Read more
Welcome to the September edition of the German Action for Happiness Calendars. As before, you can if you wish also print out a PDF version. And if you want or need to, you can see it here in English, where you also find further foreign languages. Use the following sentences as a German reading and translation exercise and act on … Read more
The two German verbs HABEN and SEIN are – just like ‘to have’ and ‘to be’ in English – irregular verbs. But they are also very important in all the other tenses, not just the present tense. So, as a reminder, here they are conjugated in the present, perfect, imperfect, pluperfect tenses as well as … Read more
Are you a Trekki? Have you ever watched an episode in German? Here are 10 quotes from ‘Raumschiff Enterprise’. Can you guess the original quotes? Computerlogbuch der Enterprise. Sternzeit 81316. Captain Kirk. Raumschiff Enterprise auf dem Flug nach … Ich bin kein Zauberer, Spock, sondern nur ein einfacher Landarzt! Beam mich hoch, Scotty! Faszinierend! Volle … Read more
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