A while ago I heard about this free Android app from DeutschAkademie. I’ve been trying it out for some time now and I’m impressed! It’s a perfect chance to practise your grammar. Whatever grammar you have learnt in your German lesson, there is bound to be an exercise for you to practice. EDIT 2016, there … Read more
Yesterday I gave you some hints on how to memorise all those pesky prepositions. Today I just want to share some videos with you which I found on Youtube and which are very helpful in explaining those two-way prepositions. If you listened to the last video yesterday, you should know those prepositions – vor, hinter, … Read more
When it comes to German grammar learning, I always get asked one big question: “How can I learn those prepositions?” The answer is always the same:”You just have to learn them.” The problem with prepositions is that they are not easy translatable. For example, in English we say ‘I’m on the bus’ which literally translated … Read more
Do you know that feeling? You listen to a song on the radio. You find it absolutely terrible …. and yet, you can’t get the tune out of your head for the rest of the day!!! Yes? Well, this happened to me this morning. Somebody posted a video in a facebook group, I listened to … Read more
How do you know whether ‘sie’ means she or they or You? Do you know the difference? Several students are struggling with this, so the last time I was asked, I promised I would make an infographic. So this one is for you, Lauren 😉 For more information about verb conjugation in the present tense, … Read more
This post contains affiliate links to Amazon. It means I might get a few pence if you buy anything – at no extra cost to you. Most English speakers struggle with the concept of different genders. In English everything is ‘the’ and all of a sudden it needs to be converted into ‘der, die, das’ … Read more
The other day I came across a blog post about 25 German Loanwords. It’s a good list, but I felt, out of the 25 words only five or six are used frequently. And yet, there are many German words in everyday English, especially food items. How about – Bratwurst (a sausage) Frankfurter (another sausage) Hamburger … Read more
On the first day of Christmas, Angelika gave to mea German textbook to see. On the second day of Christmas, Angelika gave to me 2 types of ‘you’ (formal and informal) and a German textbook to see. On the third day of Christmas, Angelika gave to me 3 words for ‘the’ (der, die, das) 2 types … Read more
About two years ago I posted an A to Z of long German compound nouns on twitter – one every day, the German words took up a lot of the 140 characters 🙂 For a while I had the whole list on my website, then moved it because I wanted something else. I even saved … Read more
Have I got your attention? Did you think, ‘Yay, no more those long, long German words’. Or was your first thought ‘Oh no, I like those lovely long words’. Fear not, they are not outnumbered, but they were on Outnumbered! I have written about German compound nouns before but when I watched Outnumbered on … Read more
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