In this post I’ll be talking about two German verbs that are very common and widely used, “wissen” and “kennen”. Both translate to the English verb “to know”, but they are used in different situations and as in English there is only one verb for both situations, it happens a lot that students use “wissen” […]
English is a language without grammatical gender, so the definite article is always “the”. In German, however, we have three grammatical genders: masculine, feminine and neuter and it’s important to remember the gender of the nouns, because it determines the article you’re going to use. That’s why I’ll show you some useful tips on how […]
When speaking German, whenever the situation allows, use “I was in“ rather than “I went to“. It’s not a mistake to say “I went to”, but it’s a translation from English and German native speakers would prefer the simpler “I was in”. Let’s have a look at an example to understand what I’m talking about. […]
This interesting concept exists both in English and in German but it is applied differently. This often leads to confusion among German learners. The German translation of ago is “vor”. The difference is that in English, ago is placed after the time indication and in German, “vor” is placed before the time indication. Let’s have […]
Many people say that English is a very easy language and German is so difficult. I do agree that the gender and case system in German makes the language more difficult than English, but when it comes to verb tenses, I think German is pretty simple. Let’s take a look at the verb “to go”: […]
In this article I’d like to talk about a mistake that I hear every day, even from advanced speakers. I think it’s quite easy to avoid this mistake, you just have to be aware of it, and it makes a big difference. But first, let’s have a look at the word order in a typical […]
It happens a lot that when I start a lesson with a new student I ask “Hallo, wie geht’s?” (Hi, how are you?) and the answer I get is “Ich bin gut” (I am good) . However, that is wrong. The root of the problem is that “How are you” in German translates to “How […]