Wadlstrumpf

When I first visited Bavaria in 1991, I learned how to greet folks in the Bavarian style. One could say Grüß dich/Gria ß  di  to individuals...

Like English, which routinely borrows words from other languages, German readily borrows words from languages around the world. Particularly...

I'm sure German can be a poetic language when it wants to be, yet it is a language of unexpectedly limited vocabulary. This is ironic, g...

We have friends visiting from the U.S.: Michelle and her daughter Zoe. We picked them up at the Hauptbahnhof this afternoon, brought them ba...

Here is Elias in his German stage debut, playing The Australian. He stands with his Translatorix in front of a kangaroo, welcoming Two Germa...

Last night, I got out my list of formal-you pronouns and phoned Herr Professor D. at his private number to talk about organ lessons. Even wi...

The word Donaudampfschi fff ahrtkapitaensgattin reminded me of another cool thing you can do in German but not in English: legitimately stic...