Happy Holidays and Happy New Year from everyone here at GermanPod101.com! We're grateful to have listeners just like you, and we're eagerly waiting for the upcoming year to learn German together! And when the New Year comes around, be sure to make a resolution to study German with GermanPod101.com! Have a healthy and happy holiday season. From the GermanPod101.com team!

Picture this. You’re out holiday shopping. You see a sign for 10% OFF. You feel like you’re getting a really good deal, so you rush into the store and make your purchase. You’re a happy customer. 2 days later… You’re out holiday shopping again. You pass by the same store, and the sale sign doesn’t just catch your eye, it punches you in the face! 20% OFF! You're not such a happy customer. Sound familiar? We’ve all experienced it. You buy something at a low price just to see it selling at a lower one the next day. Now the good deal we got suddenly doesn’t seem so good anymore. And you know what? It didn’t seem fair. In fact, we think responsible people who act early should be rewarded. So…we came up with the Reverse... Show more

For any Bushido fans visiting Berlin, you might enjoy learning that the gangster rapper has opened a shop. If you visit Dircksenstraße 89, you can not just buy socks and shirts, but also see Bushido's various awards, such as the Echo, MTV Europe Music Awards and golden/platinum discs. Not fakes either, according to him. Don't let the name of the shop owner throw you off though: it's Anis Mohamed Ferchichi, Bushido's real name.

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Starting Monday, November 10th all lessons three weeks or older will be moved to the Basic subscription section of the site. The first three lessons of every season and every level will remain free forever on the site What does this mean for you? If you’re an active Basic or Premium member, you will be unaffected. Absolutely nothing will change. Furthermore, long-time listeners enjoying the most recent episodes, you are also unaffected. Lessons less than three weeks old will remain absolutely free on the site and on the feed. In addition, the first three lessons of all levels and all season will still be free on the site for you to study from, so continue to enjoy GermanPod101.com lessons. Listeners and users focusing on older... Show more

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Germany won last night 3:2 against Turkey, after a very spannend (exciting) match. Both Mannschaften (teams) played exceedingly well. Of course LOTS of people were watching, many of them at public viewing places, so they could share the Erfahrung (experience) with other fans. One of the largest public viewings was in Berlin between the Brandenburger Tor (Brandenburg Gate) and Yitzhak-Rabin-Straße. 500,000 people could fit there - and already one hour before the match that limit was reached and further fans could not be accomodated. Can you imagine that? A tenth of the Bevölkerung (population) of Berlin's larger metropolitan area was there to see the match, one hour before it even started! Also a lot of people were probably watching the... Show more

Welcome! This new category of blog posts will help you gradually improve your German by mingling German words with the English blog text (with translations in brackets). It is a very painless way of learning, much less tiring than reading an entire text in German, and you can easily include it in your schedule because it doesn't take much time. The posts will be about learning German, living in Germany, topics of German news or any kind of interesting observation really. The posts may also include short examples of real authentic German language, for example quotations or newspaper excerpts. Let me know what you think of this idea! I hope this blog will become a very useful and entertaining way for you to add some German to your... Show more

Right now, if you go to a German pub, if you take a taxi or even just if you walk along a street, you can't avoid talk about Fußball (soccer). Germany is on its way to become Europameister (European champions) this year, and everybody is going crazy. Turkey still has a good chance of winning, so really everybody is going crazy. (Turks are the largest group of immigrants in Germany.) This is the one time when people will show off German flags, when normally they're taboo. The year Germany became runner-up to Weltmeister (world champion) at soccer, there was actually a shortage of flags because the stores were unprepared. And tonight is going to be the craziest game of all: Germany against Turkey in the semi-finals. Everybody is talking... Show more

GermanPod101.com is proud to announce a great enhancement to the vocabulary flashcards. The enhancement includes greater flexibility with language choice options, as well as a redesign of the premium Learning Center vocabulary flashcard interface. Enhancement of Learning Center flashcards more intuitive and easier to use. With a new design in hand, our flashcards have been rebuilt from the ground up to make them easier to use. Users are now given the option to dynamically change their test format without interrupting their current test. Also, once a vocabulary flashcard test is complete, users can reset the test to better help them learn German. Flashcards allow for greater flexibility while learning German. Our vocabulary... Show more