A few weeks ago we offered language bloggers and YouTubers around the world to choose any book from our library and we’d send it to them, free of charge. Today, I was pleasantly surprised to see that German teacher Levi Antrim (perhaps better known as Herr Antrim) put together a little book video review for the “Café in Berlin” book…
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German
14 Twitter Feeds For German Learners
Twitter is infamous for being a procrastination device, but it’s actually a great tool for learning languages. No, really! Learning German with ancient grammar tomes is all fine and dandy, but there’s nothing like getting daily mini-doses of vocabulary, idioms and other learning materials sent right onto your smartphone or tablet. Here are a few twitter feeds…
Hacks & Tutorials
Best Ebook Reader Apps With Word Translation For iPad and iPhone (iOS)
As an author of German language learning stories I always recommend to turn on instant translation features on tablets or ebook readers so that students can learn new words without leaving the text. Simply tap/click a word and read on! What sounds like such a simple feature, can often be curiously hard to find on even…
German
Free German Children’s Books For Language Learners Young and Old
German Textbooks & Worksheets for Children First German: At Home My first picture dictionary: German-English German for Children: Fun, Activity-Based Language Learning Worksheets For Early German Reading Proficiency Free Classic German Children’s Books From The Public Domain Der Struwwelpeter Max und Moritz My Very First Little German Book Free Contemporary German Language Books For Children…
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Learn Hebrew With Israeli Movies And Award-Winning TV Series “Shtisel”
When I first started learning Hebrew, I used a very popular overpriced software which promised to make learning a new language simple and intuitive. But after a few days of clicking on colorful stock photos of smiling people and saying things like “the cat is under the table” over and over again, I began to…
Discover Dino lernt Deutsch: the German story series for beginners that will help you learn German in no time.
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How To Become A Better Writer By Finding Creativity Within Constraints
Lately, an interesting writing app has been making the rounds. It’s called Hemingway, and it promises to “make your writing bold and clear”. The way it works is that you type or paste in a few paragraphs, and then the app will try to highlight long and complicated sentences, unnecessary adverbs and overgenerous use of…
Culture
9 Things You Should Know About Cologne’s Carnival
Cologne’s Carnival, also known as the Fifth Season, is one of the more strange and colorful events in Germany, attracting tourists from all over the world. From extravagant costumes, biting political satire that doesn’t shy away from even the most controversial topics, to non-stop music, mandatory drunkenness and dancing, the festival is a feast for…
Hacks & Tutorials
3 Ways To Start Learning How To Code
Knowing how to code is becoming an increasingly important skill for many different fields of expertise. Software is everywhere: in our cars, telephones, books and even refrigerators. While learning to code is not a magic bullet to land the perfect job, it can nevertheless be an great asset in many different situations. Especially for people…
Games
Find German Language Games on Steam
When I first started gaming back in the nineties in Germany, there weren’t too many games around in my native language. While most adventure games were eventually translated into German, the English originals were simply much easier to come by. So I took the challenge and made my way through the first Monkey Island and…
German
False Friends: 5 German Words That Don’t Mean What You Think They Do
What are “false friends”? German and English are both Germanic languages, so they not only share many grammatical features but also have a lot of similar words. For example, when you know English and you hear the German word “Haus” you immediately know what it means: house. The spelling is different, but it sounds exactly…
