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German listening practice on steroids (neglected technique)

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Getting good German listening practice is essential if you want to get fluent. Even if you “know” lots of words and grammar, can read, write and even say quite a lot, listening often seems to lag behind.  It’s really frustrating when you still can’t understand your favourite shows or movies.  How embarrassing in a live conversation when you can’t catch the responses to your … [Read more...]

The 50 most common German verbs

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Dr P tackles the most common German verbs

Learning the most frequent German words is makes tactical sense when you're starting to learn the language. The most common German verbs - words expressing an action like “to eat” or a state like “to be” - should be at the top of your list. After all, beyond pointing at objects and naming them, you won’t get far in German without some "action"! :)   There’s good … [Read more...]

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