Treppenwitz
Treppenwitz is a German word (derived from the French l’esprit de l’escalier) which literally means ‘staircase joke’....
German in Germany: de-active listening
It’s Christmas, my first Deutsche ‘Weihnacht’, and the Germans are all talking … German. This is it....
Teaching English in Germany
I was teaching a group of engineers in Düsseldorf—my first group class—and there is nothing more German...
How does it feel to learn the German Language from Scratch
Learn German From Scratch It’s kind of weird. I will actually be trying to learn German from scratch...