German Resources

Present tenseThe regular conjugation for the present tense is as follows:spielen (to play)Ich spiel-eDu spiel-stEr/sie/es spiel-tWir spiel-enIhr spiel-tSie spiel-enThere are some irre...

Most of us have been taught in big groups at school, but not everyone has previously been taught one-to-one by a private tutor. Here s how to really benefit from your private tui...

As a teacher, I have often been asked by students Miss, what does mean? While it is my job to be able to answer that question, there are some strange, rare occasions where th...

When you are learning a new language, memorising long lists of vocabulary seems to be an essential, but often tedious, even insurmountable, task.So how do you do it?First, I suggest y...

Top 5 Benefits of Learning a Second LanguageLearning a foreign language is not just a nice to have. In addition to being a fascinating pastime, it also provides a vast array of bene...

When people learn German in School, they generally learn "Hochdeutsch" (en. High German), the most common variety of German. In reality, there are countless dialects in the different ...

Using a mini whiteboard to practise your language is fun and simple. Here are some activities which I regularly use in my lessons:Pictionary against the clock: teacher draws a vocabul...

Memorising lists of new words, efficient though it may be, is by no means the only way to build up a store of words in the language you are learning. Another tried and tested method...

The perfect tense in German is used to describe completed actions in the past, i.e. I worked or she played in English.In German we form the perfect tense by combining the auxiliary ve...

I often talk to my students about how helpful it may be to access some German TV programmes online. The idea is that you just immerse yourself in the language and don`t worry about un...