Who said learning German would be easy?

I'm a selft-taught german student. Mobile App wise, I'm using both Dualingo and Memrise as well as ABC German, Learn German With Ania, German Grammar, Der Die Das and Deutsche Lernen. I'm also using an old text book called Themen neu and the Larousse bilingual dictionary. In this tumblr blog I will post about my progress and experiences with learning the language as well as useful sources and references, tips, vocabulary lists or simply funny german related content. Willkommen!

[learnoutlive]

[deutschlang]

bitte schön // you are welcome

Credit to Konis Hupen

[useless-germanyfacts]

a list of stuff that brings bad luck in germany

gifting your friend a sharp knife

gifting your girlfriend new shoes

ladders

no eye contact while clinking glasses

lighting cigarettes with a candle

opening your umbrella indoors

broken mirrors

black cats coming from the left

getting out of bed with your left foot first

wishing someone a happy birthday in advance

stumbling and not going back to the exact spot you stumbled on 

spilling salt

[useless-germanyfacts]

south korea

[deutschlang]

Choose Your Breakfast Items And We'll Tell You How German You Are

[burritomurritodorito]

GERMAN LGBT VOCABULARY

Das Geschlecht - gender

Die Geschlechtsidentität - gender identity

gleichgeschlechtliche Ehe - same sex marriage

Die Liebe - love

sexuelle Orientierung - sexual orientation 

Sexualität - sexuality

Homosexualität - homosexuality

gleichgeschlechtlich - same sex (adj.)

homophob - homophobic

homosexuell - homosexual

schwul - gay

lesbisch - lesbian (adj.)

Asexualität - asexuality

asexuell - asexual 

Pansexualität - pansexuality

pansexuell - pansexual

Bisexualität - bisexuality

bisexuell - bisexual 

sich outen - (to) come out 

[lernen-sie-deutsch-mit-mir]

In my search for a radio with (modern) German songs I found a radio ( Die Neue 107.7) that has a story broadcast at 2 in the morning (German time). I have yet to discover the name but it is easy to follow even for beginners since they speak slow and clearly. I wasn't aware radio still broadcasted stories. It's very interesting!

Thank you for letting me know, i’m sure you’ll help lots of people who are searching for something like that!

[thatswhywelovegermany]

Honestly, as a German I can not quite understand the obsession of the English speaking world with the question whether a word exists or not. If you have to express something for which there is no word, you have to make a new one, preferably by combining well-known words, and in the very same moment it starts to exist. Agree?

[latveriansnailmail]

Deutsche Freunde, could you please create for me a word for the extreme depression I feel when I bend down to pick up a piece of litter and discover two more pieces of litter?

[thatswhywelovegermany]

um = around

die Welt = world

die Umwelt = environment

ver = prefix to indicate something difficult or negative, a change that leads to deterioration or even destruction that is difficult to reverse or to undo, or a strong negative change of the mental state of a person

der Müll = garbage, trash, rubbish, litter

-ung = -ing

die Vermüllung = littering

ver- = see before

zweifeln = to doubt

-ung = see before

die Verzweiflung = despair, exasperation, desperation

die Umweltvermüllungsverzweiflung = …

[serhumfreysbrokencollarbone]

This is a german compound on the spot master class and I am LIVING

[the-light-of-stars]

New ask game:

Send me an „indescribable“ feeling and I’ll come up with a grammatically correct german compound wird for it

[ainawgsd]

[willkommen-in-germany]

Staatliches Bauhaus, also known simply as Bauhaus, was a German art school operational from 1919 to 1933 that combined crafts and the fine arts. It was famous for the approach to design that it publicized and taught. All in all, it probably was the most influential modernist art school of the 20th century, one whose approach to teaching, and understanding art’s relationship to society and technology, had a major impact on Western societies long after the actual school closed. It was shaped by 19th and 20th centuries trends such as the Arts and Crafts movement, which had sought to level the distinction between fine and applied arts, and to reunite creativity and manufacturing. This is reflected in the romantic medievalism of the school’s early years, in which it pictured itself as a kind of medieval crafts guild. By the mid 1920s, this gave way to trying to unite art and industrial design — it was this which ultimately proved to be its most original and important achievement. The school is also renowned for its faculty, which included artists Wassily Kandinsky, Josef Albers, László Moholy-Nagy, Paul Klee, and Johannes Itten, architects Walter Gropius and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and designer Marcel Breuer. Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bauhaus

[historicaltimes]

The Brandenburg Gates traffic jam between East and West Germany shortly after the Fall of the Berlin Wall… -

via reddit

[ksela-shaiter]

SO REAL I CAN’T EVEN

[deutschlang]

I feel attacked.

[deutschlang]

Had to add the name of this blog to our profile picture because someone actually stole it and started using it. 

Was zum Teufel !?

[thenatsdorf]

View this post on Instagram

[deutschlang]

Nothing about german, just a shameless post about a cow. Because.

[official-deutschebahn]

Der wahre Horror fängt erst an

[tailsthefoxy]

Nein, der fällt aus und kommt erst 2 stunden später mit dem übernächsten Zug.

[official-deutschebahn]

Die Ansage kommt aber erst 3 Minuten vor Abfahrt und der Zug fährt vom Gleis am anderen Ende des Bahnhofs.

[thatswhywelovegermany]

Und in umgekehrter Wagenreihung.

[delusionandfaith]

Und wie immer im Sommer ohne funktionierende Klimaanlage.

[thatswhywelovegermany]

Sehr geehrte Fahrgäste, leider sind die Toiletten im Großraumwagen außer Funktion. Wir bitten um Ihr Verständnis.

[deutschlang]

Everything you may know about Germans - punctuality, organitzation, awesome technology, etc - DEFINITELY doesn't apply to the Deutsche Bahn.

[languageoclock]

[deutschlang]

truth

[reinermariarilke]

In german we don’t say “It’s not my cup of tea” we say “Das ist nicht mein Bier” which translates to “This is not my beer” and if this isn’t the most german shit you can say then I don’t know what to tell you

[inoffizielles-deutschland]

[deutschlang]

I'm up for that.