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This is part II of our mini series about making it in Germany. There’s nothing better than hearing all about moving to Germany from someone who has already done it. Avoid all the mistakes Bartlomiej made when he was trying to find a place to live in Berlin and how to get the most important piece […]
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This blog post is part of our mini series on how to make the big move to Germany. Here Bartlomiej talks about his experiences with finding a university in Germany, from the application process to moving to Germany, getting settled, and seeing what Germany has to offer. He has dual citizenship with Canada and Poland while is […]
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Germans get swept off their feet when they hear the dialect spoken in Bavaria. Almost every fourth German has their heart skip a beat when listening to the softer-sounding variety of German, but they cringe when the Saxonian or Rhineland Palatinate dialect is within earshot. German dialects usually only play a minor role in German […]
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Learning a new language on your own always sounds like a fun little adventure until you actually get going. The grind sets in pretty early, especially at the beginner level, as you strive to memorize enough words and rules through repetition to be able to string a few semi-coherent sentences together. Thankfully, we have smartphones […]
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Wouldn’t it be nice if we never forgot anything we ever learned? But that’s not how it works in real life, is it? Even after years of learning and speaking another language, you can end up feeling you’ve forgotten all and lost every single word you’ve learnt. Life just does what it always does […]
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Please do me a favour and try to say ‘I’m going to the movies tonight’ in German. Do you know how to say it? Or ‘When are you going to Germany?’ Or a really simple one: ‘Are you going to the party tomorrow?’ If you struggle with these sentences, you’re not alone. In English we […]
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The German Way Expat Guide Book In 2013, Germany reported the highest rate of immigration of all member states in the European Union. Numbers rose again from 690,000 to just under 2 million by the end of 2015. It’s not only people seeking asylum who flock in droves to Munich, Cologne and Frankfurt. Germany, Berlin […]
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The German word for ‘to stay’ is bleiben, right? One of the questions that comes up in our German courses the most is how to say that you’re staying somewhere in German. Unlike English where you can safely use ‘to stay’ no matter who you’re with or where you end up being, you have a […]
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Germans like their a, o, u with two dots: ä,ö,ü My name is Anja Müller. Mein Vorname ist Anja, mein Nachname ist Müller. Did you notice it? Ü. Doesn’t it look beautiful? These little dots on top of the u. It’s like a happy face is smiling at me. I love how I have to […]
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Popular examples of German compound nouns One of my students brought this book to one of our classes. It is called “Schottenfreude – German Words For The Human Condition” and is about very long compound German words. The entire book describes extremely long words with their English explanation. I like the book. It comes in […]
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