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. Welcome to my third blog post based on our ‘Ask Angelika’ shows with practical or useful sentences you might hear or use yourself in certain scenarios. Today we’re ordering coffee … 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. The verb brechen means to break. It gets conjugated as follows (watch out, it’s an irregular verb, so the 2nd and 3rd form singular is different): The perfect tense goes with ‘haben’ … Read more
As German learners start to learn more and more vocabulary, they learn that ‘questions’ are ‘Fragen’ and the verb ‘to ask’ is ‘fragen’. So when they want to say ‘asking questions’ they say ‘Fragen fragen’. That’s not how we say it in German (although if you said it, people would understand you). Asking questions in … 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. Welcome to my second blog post based on our ‘Ask Angelika’ shows with practical or useful sentences you might hear or use yourself in certain scenarios. Today we’re looking at … 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. Welcome to a new series of blog posts based on our ‘Ask Angelika’ shows, this time season 5 with practical or useful sentences you might hear or use yourself in … 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. The verb greifen means to grab. It gets conjugated as follows: The perfect tense goes with ‘haben’ and the past participle is ‘gegriffen’, and in the imperfect tense it’s ‘ich … Read more
We’ve all been there, haven’t we? We’ve gone to bed and then couldn’t sleep. What to do? Well, next time you can’t sleep, you could watch this German Sesame Street video and see what Ernie did to try and get to sleep … Or you can read this blog post to find out more about … 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
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. Let’s learn some German vocabulary based on a topic. And this month’s topic is one of the fruit and veg boxes I receive every two weeks.You’ll get the vocab plus … Read more
You most likely know that the German word ‘mit’ means with (and is followed by the dative). But did you also know, that if you add the three letters ‘mit’ to certain verbs, you’ll end up with a nice list of new verbs. The same happens if you add ‘Mit’ to certain nouns. The nouns … Read more
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