Turn a short German film scene into active practice
Choose a short scene you can roughly follow. Watch for the situation, check useful wording with German subtitles, and then replay without them.
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Use German music for rhythm without copying poetic grammar
Work with a short line from an authorized text, listen for word boundaries and compare a spoken version. Songs may shorten forms or move words for rhythm.
Read and practiseChoose free German resources by the task they support
Start with the skill you want to practise, then look for material that lets you try a task and check your result.
Read and practiseUse your phone for short active German practice
Prepare one small task before you travel: a saved text, a few recall prompts or a recording question. Reduce notifications and produce a response rather than merely saving material.
Read and practiseLearn German as an adult: start with everyday tasks
Start learning German as an adult with introductions, appointment requests and short personal sentences. Try three exercises with explained answers.
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German position verbs: liegen or legen, stehen or stellen, sitzen or setzen
Choose German position and placement verbs with translated examples, case contrasts and four exercises.
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German schon, erst and noch: already, only and still
Understand schon, erst, noch, noch nicht and nicht mehr through timelines, translated examples and four exercises.
Read and practiseGehen in German: walking, activities and wellbeing
Gehen often describes going on foot, but also appears in fixed expressions and descriptions of activities.
Read and practiseKommen in German: arrival and origin
Kommen describes arrival, movement toward a reference point and someone's origin with aus.
Read and practiseGerman machen or tun: learn useful combinations
Both verbs can describe doing, but many everyday expressions select one particular verb.
Read and practiseGerman wissen or kennen: facts and familiarity
Wissen commonly introduces factual knowledge or a clause; kennen means being familiar with a person, place or thing.
Read and practiseGerman lernen or studieren: learning and university
Lernen covers acquiring skills, memorizing and preparing for tests; studieren commonly describes university study.
Read and practiseSprechen vs. reden: speak German or have a conversation
Learn when sprechen and reden overlap, how to say you speak German, and which cases follow mit and über. Includes translated examples and five exercises.
Read and practiseGerman sehen and schauen: perception and looking
Sehen often describes visual perception; schauen commonly describes directing your gaze or watching something.
Read and practiseGerman nehmen and bringen: take or deliver
Nehmen means taking or choosing something; bringen describes moving something or someone to a destination or recipient.
Read and practiseBringen vs. holen in German: bring, take, fetch and pick up
Compare holen, bringen, abholen and mitbringen with translated examples. Learn fetch versus deliver, separable prefixes and past forms in five exercises.
Read and practiseGerman fahren or gehen: vehicle or walking
Use fahren for travel by many vehicles and gehen for walking, while remembering that some gehen phrases describe an activity more generally.
Read and practiseBleiben in German: stay in a place or condition
Bleiben describes staying somewhere or continuing in a state, even though its Perfekt uses sein.
Read and practiseGerman lassen: leave, allow and have something done
Lassen can mean leaving something in place, allowing an action or arranging for somebody to perform it.
Read and practiseGerman geben: dative recipient, accusative item
Geben commonly connects a giver, a recipient and the thing given, with different cases for the last two roles.
Read and practiseGerman helfen: use the dative
Helfen requires a dative person or group, even if your own language treats the person helped as a direct object.
Read and practiseGerman gefallen: the thing is the subject
With gefallen, the thing that appeals is the grammatical subject and the person experiencing the feeling is dative.
Read and practiseFehlen in German: absence, shortage and missing someone
The missing person or thing is the subject of fehlen; the person affected may appear in the dative.
Read and practiseGerman gefallen or mögen: reverse the sentence roles
Both verbs can express liking, but their subjects and objects are arranged differently.
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