Eight German verbs to help you catch things

Today, we’re looking at the German verb ‘fangen‘ (to catch).  It’s irregular and gets conjugated as follows: The perfect tense goes with ‘haben’ and the past participle is ‘gefangen’, and in the imperfect tense it’s ‘ich fing’. This page contains affiliate links to Amazon. It means I’ll get a few pence if you buy anything … Read more

10 terrible reasons not to learn German with Angelika’s courses

It’s the start of a new school year and you are wondering whether you should buy some of my online courses to improve your German. Well, here are 10 methodologically questionable reasons to ignore my courses 😉 If I have just described you, then you know why you absolutely shouldn’t buy any of these German … Read more

Indem oder in dem?

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

Three German words that can make strange translations

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

10 ways to improve your German Learning

Feeling a bit stuck when it comes to learning German?Here are 10 ways to improve your learning: ☑️Don’t compare yourself to othersWe all learn differently and some of us may have had a language learning advantange. Don’t compare yourself to them, only compare yourself to yourself from yesterday or last week or last month etc… … Read more

How much German should I learn before my visit?

“How much German should I learn before I visit Germany?” This is a question I get frequently asked and my initial thought always is “How long is a piece of string?” If I had to answer with one sentence, I would say ‘as much as possible’, whereas others would say ‘You don’t need any German, … Read more

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