Sometimes it seems like life is all about questions. Language certainly is – my conversations at least wouldn’t get far if I just swapped stories with people and never asked anything …

YouTube is HUGE. And if you’re not using it to learn German, you’re missing out.   We’ve picked out five different YouTube genres, covering a variety of interests. All of …

I hate to admit it, but it was years before I finished my first “real” German book. I struggled through a short story collection and felt very happy with myself. …

Are you listening to German right now?   You could be.   Everyone has little moments of time throughout the day that they could be using to learn a foreign …

Every learner of German picks up real fast the idea that there are four cases.   But it takes some of them a lot longer to understand what the cases …

Who doesn’t lead a busy life these days?   If you’re thinking about taking up a new language, the number-one question on your mind is probably something like “Yeah, learning …

Is German hard to learn? I mean, linguists tell us that the European languages are pretty much all closely related to one another.   But how can that be the …

Here’s a series of rapid-fire questions: How well do you speak English? How many other languages can you speak? Do you want to learn a new one? How long do …

I once had a friend describe his experience learning German to me. He said, “Everything was going perfect until I ran into the grammar.”   Is that what’s happening to …

Funny German words, do they even exist?    Truth be told, when I began to write an article about funny German words I didn’t really know where to turn.   …