Finally my first post after a long break! And, after long investigations, I picked up 10 most useful idioms in German. And I promise you´ll meet them in everyday´s situations, media etc. Without further ado, let´s start! Tote Hose Literally: “Dead trousers”. It means something boring or describes a place or an event where nothing´s …
To be honest, I barely know student books of foreign languages teaching how to order a meal in real situations. And I mean very real, everyday situations. I am entitled to state it after years of ordering kebab (Döner) in Germany. A typical conversation between kebab sellers and their clients is like breaking all possible …
COVID-19 ist still holding us captive and it made most of us reconsider our plans for 2020. Weekend city trips and open-air concerts are whether cancelled or postponed – with no concrete deadlines. The local businesses, however, are suffering most under the quarantine restrictions. The small shops, bars and restaurants, being once a part of …
The spread of COVID-19 urged a lot of us to work from home and this new experience seems to establish itself as a normal, permanent one in the post-corona era. In Germany, it became one of the highliest discussed topics in the media which inspired me to dedicate my next German vocabulary section to Denglish, …
In my first-ever post, I am going to show an infographic displaying the most used basic German nouns regarding the so-called WGs (Wohngemeinschaften) – Germany´s most wide-spread form of living among the students, young employees and, of course, the expats trying to find their place in the rapidly growing cities like Berlin, Munich or Hamburg. …