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Introduction Awesome new upgrade available for the iPhone/iPod Touch application - WordPower German and now available for Android (the Google phone). Social Networking Monthly Giveaways! - Every month, GermanPod101.com will give away one 3-month Premium Subscription, one 3-month Basic Subscription, and two of our phenomenal iPhone applications. Become a subscriber to GermanPod101's YouTube account, follow us on Twitter, become a fan on Facebook, or have a free lifetime account at GermanPod101 to be eligible to win! Best Lessons and Blog Entries for October! - Find out what’s popular this month! The blog has some great content for you to see. Welcome to the GermanPod101.com newsletter. These periodic newsletters will deliver to... Show more

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One common mistake made by beginning language learners is to assume that expressions can be translated word-for-word from one language into another (see German vs. English vocabulary). They’ll take an expression such as “to bite the dust” and render it into something like “zu beissen den Staub.” Besides its word order problems (the phrase would go “den Staub beissen” in German), this literal translation makes absolutely no sense to a German-speaker. In the German language, when one “bites the dust,” one actually “bites into the grass” (ins Gras beissen), perhaps because Germany is much greener than the wild West associated with this expression in English, although the German expression goes all the way back to the 16th century. German... Show more

English may have more vocabulary than any other language, but that doesn't mean it has a word for everything. Every language has words and expressions that are unique and very difficult or impossible to translate into another language. The Eskimos, contrary to popular legend, do NOT really have fifty words for snow, but German gemütlich takes several words to explain in English: cozy, comfortable, warm, inviting, and hospitable. Sometimes these words or expressions are adopted wholesale into another language — Kindergarten and Gesundheit (health), for example, from German into English. But more often the word is just unknown in other languages. German is a rich language that has words and turns of phrases that have no equal in English.... Show more

When you start learning German, sooner or later you might get to the point where you ask yourself: Why am I learning German at all? Sure, there are thousands of rules to consider, many tongue twisters and an infinite number of discouraging vocabulary to learn. However, we want to show you that all the hard work pays off because: - German is the most widely spoken language in Europe. - German is one of the most commonly used languages on the Internet. In fact, Germany's top-level country domain ".de" is second only to the extension .com. - German is no harder to learn to speak and write than other languages.  - in many countries, Germans account for the largest percentage of tourists. So, if you are working in the tourist... Show more