“Teeth meat” and “Wash street”: Some New German Words

Here are some new German words I've recently discovered, and I want to share them with you to get your linguistic taste buds tingling. If you're learning German, I hope you can learn a word or two from this post. And if not, then I hope you enjoy the post anyway and can still enjoy…

“Humid” or “gay”?: How one little ‘ü’ can completely change the meaning of a word

I still have a few problems with German. I still get genders of words wrong. I keep stumbling over weird and wonderful idioms I've never heard of before. And there are still words I struggle to say with a decent accent ("angerufen" is one of them... that bloody 'r'!). But there is one particular thing I…

New German Words

I've technically now being learning German for 14 years, which, sitting back and thinking about it, is a hell of a long time. It's over half my life, let's put it like that! But it's safe to say I still make my mistakes and I still learn new words. Here's a sample of new words…

Genders in German: A small rant

This is definitely a post for the language lovers out there. We're very lucky in English to not have genders for words. Whenever I ask Germans what they find easy about English, 9 times out of 10 I'm told it's because you don't need to worry about remembering what gender words have. In German, you…

Funny Things Germans Say In English

I do try to speak as much German as possible here in Germany, and I'd probably say I speak German more than I do English. Sometimes, however, I either get lazy or a German wants to practise their English with me. The level of English I hear is varied - some Germans have perfect American…

15 New Random German Words

Time for a blog post not just listing what I've been up to. At work, I learn a lot of German words, which was kind of expected, but there are some words I never thought I'd end up learning. At least not in a publishing house. You see, one of my tasks (which I haven't…