When entering a German course, as much as in everyday life in Germany, the first questions you will find yourself to answer are always the ones about yourself. To avoid finding yourself without words, or struggling to hold the first conversation with native speakers, we have put together ten useful sentences to help you present […]
German is not only the language found on dictionaries and in school. Here is a list of nine words used in everyday life that you won’t find in books. After years of German language courses, you might think that you are ready for the big step: to converse with mother tongue speakers. Yet, when speaking […]
Every language has its own array of tongue twisters that have no purpose beyond than to test our ability to pronounce correctly words that share a similar sound. One of their defining features is their nonsense and impossibility to translate them in a different language, precisely due to the fact that the sound of the […]
German: not such a foreign language after all. As everyone is aware of, German is not an easy language to learn. Whoever wishes to embark on such an adventure faces a complex grammar, three different genres of gender (masculine, feminine and neutral), along with lengthy words and unfamiliar sounds. To facilitate the learning the process […]
The renowned dictionary for German language Duden, published for the first time in 1880 by Konrand Duden, recently printed its 27th edition. This new publication covers and analyses extensively all the aspects of the German lexicon, including but not only, the grammar, spelling and synonyms. The peculiarity of the new publication stands in its introduction […]
The German language is often seen as obscure, tough and hard to cope with. It’s true, a lifetime might simply not be enough for learning such a language, but what’s undeniable is the fact that German owns some words which perfectly depicts certain states of mind and feelings. That’s the reason why using those complicated-yet […]
German as a language is well-known for the incredibly vast range of terms along with the great accuracy of its terminology, which often consists of many and difficult compound words; German-speaking people in fact are able to express structured concepts with only one word. Using precise terms which perfectly express moods, feelings and sensations Germans […]
The language can say a lot about the people. And it’s a hard work to make a collection of a language’s unique words which could define the people’s soul. This is what Vanna Vannuccini and Francesca Pedrazzi did, both journalists and Germany experts in the book Piccolo viaggio nell’anima tedesca (Little journey in the German […]
You attended a German language course. You spent hours doing homework and consulting the vocabulary. You forced yourself to listen to the radio and watching movies in German until collapsing on the keyboard. You abused Tandempartner/innen to have your daily dose of conversation. Well, it was really hard but it was worth it because now […]