In the last year, certain phrases have entered the lexicon that might have been wholly unfamiliar a year ago. In 2019, “social distancing” might have sounded strange; nowadays, we’re all experts in it ...

The term 'Freudenfreude' was recently identified by mistake as a German word. Here's why that is not such a bad thing. On November 25th, a San Francisco-based psychologist penned an article for the ...

German is the most widely spoken native language in the EU, with 120 million "speakers" worldwide and approximately 5.3 million words. However, it still lacks a few terms from other languages that ...

The Germans are famous for using long words used to describe hyper-specific, complex sentiments. For instance, the 26-letter word vergangenheitsbewaeltigung describes the inability to cope with the ...

A singular German word overflowing with length and precision can flummox an English speaker: from its number of letters to its complex meaning. In the age of COVID-19, more than 1,200 words in German ...

There’s something so satisfying about a good German word. As The Awl entertainingly demonstrated with their spot-on “There Oughta Be a German Word For This” column, German words somehow define complex ...

Learning German Vocabulary helps students understand the basic instructions of the classroom. They are useful for daily conversations if you have the zeal to learn them. This can help you a lot if ...

Remembering whether a noun is der, die or das can be tricky for non-natives. In the first of our series where we find answers to the burning questions that foreigners want to know, we ask a German: do ...