German is such a complicate language that there is a common saying about it. We know how difficult our language is, we admit it, and we tell you in this way: “Deutsche Sprache, schwere Sprache”. Unfortunately this doesn’t relieve your burden to learn it. On the contrary is a mean to squeeze a bigger commitment from you.

In my life as a German teacher, I meet often people who, despite they are living in Germany for many years, aren’t able to speak German.

And there are people who only learn Ich spreche kein Deutsch (I don’t speak German).

In this post I’m going to give a short overview of the grammar resources to learn German.
The post is dedicated to all that want to learn, improve and get fluent in German. Of course this my point of view as teacher of German with already some experience behind.

This is one of my favorite website to learn German online.  The DW is the German broadcaster for international news. It is member of ARD, the German association of public broadcasters. It broadcast from satellite (in German, English, Spanish and Arabian), radio and Internet in 30 languages. On the...

There are many resources to learn German online and for free. I don’t think you can get to the point to speak the language with those only, but for sure is a perfect addition for your learning. Ideally you will take a course in a language school and in your spare time you can enjoy some basic...

You hardly find it in a German course book, but it is very useful in everyday life and you can use it to impress you German friends and colleagues: it’s German slang (Umgangssprache). Let’s learn a bit of German street language.   Auf jeden Fall or Auf jeden Absolutely yes, for sure. If...

German and English belong to the same language families, this means they descend from a common language. Not to mention the many words both languages borrowed from Latin. Therefore is normal they have many words that are similar in spelling and in meaning (real friends). Unfortunately, there are...