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.

This German word captures a human feeling so perfectly that it's even become popular in English. But beware, because the word is used quite differently between the two languages. Even if you've ...

Rindfleischetikettierungsueberwachungsaufgabenuebertragungsgesetz, a German word meaning “law delegating beef label monitoring,” no longer exists, apparently. But ...

That was a brilliant stroke of false advertising of course because there’s no such thing – and never will be such a thing – as a "complete" dictionary of German. But how many words does the German ...

In her final column, Olga Grjasnowa zeroes in on two words that hold a special place in the German language: “Heimat” ("home" or “homeland”), an elusive concept that can be hard to get your head ...

lockdown bacon, and toilet paper hamster: the delightfully German words that have appeared during pandemic times.