We all know how good it feels when someone makes you feel like you’re the most important person in the world. This German ...

Kupplung is a very nice German word in that it describes what the mechanical elements of a clutch do – they connect and disconnect two rotating shafts, or “couple” them. I can sometimes be ...

As The Awl entertainingly demonstrated with their spot-on “There Oughta Be a German Word For This” column, German words somehow define complex human emotions in a way that English words often ...

My favourite German word of all times is Bubi, pronounced 'boobee'. Merely for linguistic reasons! It means 'young boy' and is ethymologically related to the English ...

Wir haben das Bier erfunden. Flag this comment I did not know that so many German words are used in English. Very interesting! Flag this comment Nice idea to make little videoclips! Doesn't help ...

English dictionaries, after all, include many German words such as angst, schadenfreude and wanderlust – not forgetting the Swiss-German putsch. “Languages, in order to remain a useful tool ...

it’s helpful to know how to pronounce words correctly. German has lots of similar phonemes to English, which should help when pronouncing a lot of German words. A phoneme is a unit of sound.