Embarking on the journey of learning a new language opens up a world of connections and exciting opportunities. For those who want to learn German, which has a long history and clear rules, you need ...

10 revealing facts about German. Get your head around tongue twisters and jokes. It's also available in German with audio. Get started with 20 audio phrases and learn how to say a range of useful ...

To speak German confidently, it’s helpful to know how to pronounce words correctly. German has lots of similar phonemes to English, which should help when pronouncing a lot of German words. A phoneme ...

D as in "Dora" — or "David"? The Nazis had eliminated Jewish names from the German spelling alphabet. The names are to return, at least symbolically. It is a common situation during a phone call: the ...

German’s super-long compound words are legendary—even Mark Twain had something to say about them. This quick video demonstrates how those words are constructed. But Germany had not in fact lost its ...

Put two words together that seem like oxymorons and the result is something that makes sense. These German terms are both entertaining and paradoxical. The German language is famous for its compound ...

What was once the longest word in the German language, a tongue consisting of many ridiculously lengthy words, is no more. The term ...

Germany is restoring Jewish names that Nazis stripped from its phonetic alphabet more than 75 years ago. Adolf Hitler changed the alphabet in 1934, a year after he ascended to power — subbing, for ...

Here’s another oh-so typical German compound word, which perfectly captures a feeling or situation you want to describe. A close synonym could be die Verschlechterung, meaning ‘worsening’ or a ‘change ...