The online edition of the German news magazine DER SPIEGEL publishes some of its content in English. International readers can also subscribe to a free weekly email newsletter or RSS ... Read More

Reader's Digest auf Deutsch If you're not reading German magazines and newspapers in print or online, you should be! Even beginners can profit from regular reading of periodicals in German. If ... Read More

He was born in Prague and spoke both Czech and German, but Franz Kafka's literary works are all in German. Learn more about Prague and the author almost no one ... Read More

Lesson 5 of German for Beginners deals with Adjectives and Colors. It links to our basic Color Chart which now also has audio so you can hear the colors and ... Read More

If you're tracing your family history in German-speaking Europe (or plan to), this special glossary can be a big help! Sooner or later, anyone doing a Germanic genealogy search will ... Read More

This self-scoring quiz tests your knowledge of German prepositions (Präpositionen). Step-by-step, the quiz will ask you to correctly use prepositions in up to 20 German sentences. You can choose to ... Read More

Poor little Pluto was recently demoted from planetary status, but the "dwarf planet" is still in our English-German glossary of astronomical and aerospace terms. You'll also find all of the ... Read More

ave you ever wondered about that strange looking German type found in old German books and on beer steins? Where did it come from? Even more interesting is why it ... Read More

From "Alpha, Bravo, Charlie" to "A wie Anton" - One language problem that English-speaking business people and expats in German-speaking Europe encounter is trying to spell their name on the ... Read More

Homophones are words that sound the same but are spelled differently. In this German-English glossary of homophones in German you'll learn the more common ones. Homophones are used in puns, ... Read More

In Lesson 3 of German for Beginners you learned that all German nouns are capitalized and have a specific gender. You also know that you should learn every noun along ... Read More

What's the most beautiful word in the German language? In 2004 a jury in Germany announced the winners of a contest to determine the most beautiful German word. People from ... Read More

Founded in 1951, the Goethe Institute is a non-profit organization that promotes German culture and the German language worldwide. With branches in 78 countries and an excellent Web presence, the ... Read More

You probably know what BMW and VW stand for, but do you know what all those other German brand and company names mean? Some German brands are known worldwide (AGFA, ... Read More

Read and LISTEN to this Grimm fairy tale, a reading selection available in both German and English. Die Bremer Stadtmusikanten (The Bremen Town Musicians) is a wonderful fantasy about ... Read More

You can also listen to many of the German tongue twisters in our collection of about 50 Zungenbrecher. We continue to add audio versions of these amusing "tongue breakers," as ... Read More