Learning German

Imagine the following situation: You work in the morning until 1 PM, stand up, go for lunch, and meet a colleague in the hall. He says (...)

German used to be a very popular language among educated people from all over Europe before the 20th century, but after World War I, and (...)

As a funny mental exercise, I wanted to try to see what English would look like if it used German grammar, but with English vocabulary (...)

These four expressions are a common source of confusion for German learners. The reason is that “Morgen” can be either a noun or an (...)

Learning basic vocabulary in a foreign language can be a dull task. It doesn’t make much sense to go through a long list of translations and to memorize, for example, that “apple = pomme” in French, because you can’t speak a language by translating your mother tongue word for word. (...)

This is a classical dilemma. Which one is correct? Fortunately, it’s hard to make a mistake here because both “gut deutsch sprechen” and (...)

One of the trickiest parts in language learning is translation of prepositions. In German, when there’s something written on a website, (...)

Translating texts between languages often takes more than just translating the words. Some words like “table”, “house”, or “carpet” (...)

There are many irregular verbs in German, and also many lists of them can be found on the Internet. This one is, however, special in many (...)

I learn and speak several languages, but the proper pronunciation of the names of the letters of the standard 26-letter Latin alphabet is (...)