This might sound familiar to you: You want to say that you don’t do something, for example, you don’t travel by bus. You learn to use the word ‘nicht’: Ich fahre nicht mit dem Bus. Then you want to say that you don’t have a car and say ‘Ich habe nicht ein Auto’ and your … Read more
Today’s post is a follow-up to indem oder in dem? and sowie oder so wie? Both covered words which Germans sometime struggle to spell correctly, as one or two words. This time we’re loooking at daraufhin and darauf hin, again words where even Germans aren’t always sure whether to spell them as one or two … Read more
Let’s talk about the future!I have written about the future tense before. In my post How to use ‘ich will’ and ‘ich werde’ when talking about the future in German and also in my post How to say New Year’s resolutions in German Today I show you another easy way to talk about the future … Read more
Last month I wrote a blog post about indem & in dem and how to work out when you write indem and when in dem. Today’s blog post tells you about sowie and so wie. sowie (plus, as well as) Here are some examples: In the following three sentences you could also have used und … Read more
This page contains affiliate links to Amazon. It means I’ll get a few pence if you buy anything – at no extra cost to you. When my students come across German gender for the first time, and they’re learning whether a noun is masculine, feminine or neuter, they often despair. Then after a while they … Read more
So you’re reading this German text and come across a sentence like this one ‘Sie verbessert ihr Deutsch, indem sie jeden Tag Vokabeln lernt‘. And then you read ‘In dem Textbuch findet sie viele Vokabeln‘. And you think “Is there a spelling mistake or why is there an ‘indem’ and an ‘in dem’?” Well, it’s … Read more
I have written about compound nouns before in posts like Lost German compound nouns found after long search, Handschuhe – Gloves or Are you a ‘Muffel’? but I wrote them to show you the variety of compound nouns. In this blog post I’m going to answer the question: How do you determine the gender of … Read more
Whenever students want to talk about the future, they often get wollen and werden mixed up. It’s understandable, because ‘ich will’ sounds like ‘I will’. But it’s a false friend, because ‘ich will’ means ‘I want’. When asked, for example, “Was wirst du morgen machen?” (What will you do tomorrow?) students told me “Ich will … Read more
Six years ago I wrote a blog post and made a video about the three different German verbs that you might need when you want to say ‘to put’: Setzen, stellen oder legen – oh, I’ll just put it there! As that post was just about the translation for ‘to put’ it was okay, but … Read more
Welcome to Angelika’s online courses for German learners 😃 You are in the right place if you want to improve your German but don’t have the time or money for regular weekly lessons. Once you’ve bought a course it’s yours for as long as you wish (and that includes any updates). You watch the videos … Read more
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