As the government is exploring a new EU youth mobility scheme and working towards a renewed association with the Erasmus+ ...

But in Germany, lexicographers at the Leibniz Institute for the German Language have compiled more than 1,200 new words related to the coronavirus pandemic. German's propensity for compounding ...

For lots of non-natives, speaking German is a bit like a lottery: when you are not 100 percent sure about the article of a German word, you take a guess. And you have a one in three chance of ...

German is known for its extremely long compound words—Mark Twain once complained that some were “so long they have a perspective.” This quick video demonstrates how those words are constructed.

How you say words is often different in German. Learn about phonics in German in this guide for students aged 11 to 14 from BBC Bitesize.

Mike, a German national who normally lives in the Pacific Northwest, is spending this year with his family in Germany. If anyone could help me figure out what the German word would be, it would be ...

Stand-up comedian, Henning Wehn, takes a humorous look at the German language in ten short videos. Video about loan words. It's not just über, Blitz and Schadenfreude.

Learning a new language can be tricky, but how many words do you need to know before you can actually get by in a foreign tongue? That was the question posed to BBC Radio 4's More or Less ...

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