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Are you ready as you'll ever be to start learning German?

Then Introduction to German is for you.

If you'd like to try a class, one that's online, with a live instructor to guide you through your first class with German, this class is for you.

If you're new to German, this class is for you.

If you're tired of trying to "teach yourself" something you don't know yet, this class is for you.

If you're sick of staring at your phone, trying to figure out what that blog post/social media post in...

Has anyone ever actually taught you HOW to learn a foreign language?

I bet not.

Would you like to learn it now, for free?

Or would you prefer to stumble around in the dark, potentially for years, getting nowhere?

If you'd like to learn it now, for free, then here's good news for you!

You can take this free course online today.

No strings attached.

This Course Teaches You What to Look For and What to Avoid

You can take the information from this course and apply it to any language you'd...

Ask any new German learner and they will say German has a million parts and a gazillion words and then you can add the words together to makes new words and...

Stop!

There are only six parts to learning German.

No one part is more important than the other, either, as they are all part of the same machine, if you will.

Think of it like a car.

Does a car function well if part of it is missing or broken? Not usually!

A couple of weeks ago my car battery died (I'll spare you the details because...

You could be at home, you could be in a park, you could be on your own balcony.

Every place is a good place to learn a bit of German.

Here are three new ways you can learn a bit of German in any of those places.

1. eine Wortsuche

A word search is a good way to engage with German over a bit of time, but it's not so much energy that you can't get started or keep focused.

In fact, that's exactly what one Klub member said about the word search activity in the Klub:

 "The word search was so...

The A1 or beginner's level of German is frequently underestimated in its importance for learning German. Starting at the beginning is not only the only place to start, but it's the most important place to start to understand German grammar.

If you're my client you'll hear this often:

You can't build a house on sand, so build a strong foundation.

One of the hardest times for my A2 clients (or B1 or B2 for that matter) is when we start a new topic involving some kind of grammar and they...

Today you get to learn separable verbs (trennbare Verben) just like one of my German clients!

This is a technique I've used with dozens of German learners and it makes separable verbs a kinaesthetic exercise--and that in two different ways.

You'll need to do one thing and to get one supply to have ready when you start the video.

Step 1

Download this PDF of 4x6 cards and print them, or simply use them to make your own cards if you can't print them. You can also use small cards or slips of...

der Zungenbrecher = tongue twister

Heute können Sie einen Zungenbrecher üben! Hier können Sie das PDF herunterladen:

PDF herunterladen

Dann schauen Sie das Video. Ich helfe Ihnen dabei, das /ts/ aussprechen zu können und den Zungenbrecher zu lernen. Viel Spaß dabei!

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auf Englisch:

Today you can practice a tongue twister! You can download the PDF here:

download PDF

And then watch the video. In the video I'll help you correctly pronounce the /ts/ sound and to learn the tongue twister. Have...

Guten Morgen allerseits!

Heute habe ich ein Gedicht für euch. So können Sie das Gedicht lernen:

1. Laden Sie das PDF herunter und lesen Sie das Gedicht.

PDF herunterladen

2. Schlagen Sie Wörter nach, die Ihnen neu sind. Schreiben Sie einen Kommentar, wenn Sie eine Frage haben.

3. Schauen Sie das Video.

4. Schauen Sie das Video nochmal und sprechen Sie mit.

5. Sprechen Sie das Gedicht laut vor. Gut ist's!

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Good morning everyone!

Today I have a poem for you. Here's how you can learn this...

Liebe Leserinnen, liebe Leser,

auf Deutsch:

mit der neuen Website gibt es einiges an kostenlose Materialien für Sie. Ich möchte Ihnen mehr zum Lernen anbieten, da wir uns in einer sehr außergewöhnlichen Situation befinden. Aber dafür brauche ich Informationen von Ihnen.

Was möchten Sie von mir für Deutsch? Was wollen Sie in den nächsten Wochen lernen? Und *wie* wollen Sie es lernen?

auf Englisch:

With the new website there are quite a few free...

Herzlich Willkommen zur neuen Website!

Welcome to the new website!

This is an all-new website and I'm absolutely delighted to share it with you. Here's what's new:

New Logo & Graphics

This main part of the website, everything accessible normally on the internet, will now have this flower logo in "royal fuchsia." Yes, that's really the name of that color. My fantastic new Virtual Assistant created all the logos and graphics. She did a bang-up job, really impressive.

There are other...