10 revealing facts about German. Get your head around tongue twisters and jokes. It's also available in German with audio.

Words with 60-odd letters in them? Nothing unusual in German. Henning dissects a couple of examples and proves that German can be endless fun - quite literally.

These are the German words that capture the essence of this magical time of year. The first, most obvious, word you need to know at this time of year is the German word for autumn (or fall ...

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 ...

Because Geist is a great word to have up your sleeve when you're ... People who have studied at a German university may have heard of the Geisteswissenschaften - or the humanities.

How does one find one's way around the rules of the German language, where do new words come from, and what are the most important changes in the use of the language - for example, due to ...

Germany is to revamp its phonetic alphabet to remove words added by the Nazis ... the problematic letters is now in the hands of the German Institute for Standardization (DIN).

Despite learning German for three years, and practising nearly every day, they still couldn't seem to retain more than 500 words. "I was hoping," they wrote, "you could give me a shortcut ...

This results in 46 distinct letters, almost double the number used in the English alphabet. The phonology of Japanese is mercifully quite simple. If we were to use a syllabic writing system for ...

Ann often takes his keyboard to landmarks and natural scenes around the world. During his trip to China last month, he played ...

Targeted memory reactivation improved memory performance of easy-to-learn words, but had no effect of difficult-to-learn words, which suggests a critical role of word learning difficulty in sleep ...

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