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How to Put the German Verb in The Right Position: Learn the 8 Most Important Sentence Structures in German in 8 Minutes
The German verb in the right position? Are you kidding me? Putting the German in the right position is a challenge for many German language learners. Sometimes in second place, sometimes at the end of a sentence - the position of the German verb depends on whether you are using a basic sentence structure or a complex one. Also, things change when you move into the past. Spend 8 minutes to really understand how the German verb works in a sentence.
What a little Lao boy has to do with language learning
Have you ever thought about what might be the best way to learn a language? What makes you succeed best? When we teachers ask our students how they would like to learn, they generally don’t know. They hope it just happens, by some kind of magic. After all we already speak at least one language. We don’t remember how we learnt it, but we were quite successful, it seems. There must be something in our mind to switch on and it just happens, isn’t it? I can reassure you, teachers often hope the same. We all, students and teachers secretly hope to find the magic button to push and everything falls into place. Effortless. We just have to find the right method?
5 Free Resources for Learning German on the Road
Learning a language is not for the faint of heart. It’s the motivated and the brave who persevere to the finish line of fluency. Learning a language, like most things, takes practice and time. A lot of it. Seriously, A LOT. And not just in the classroom. Practice, repetition and repeated exposure to the language in and out of the INNES classroom are what make it stick in long-term memory. Students excel when they sit in the driver’s seat of their own learning by taking time to practice at home, but what if that practice is boring?
We understand the challenge of studying on your own. It’s hard to find quality resources that are easy on the wallet but still modern, user-friendly, and engaging.
We’ve come across a lot of online resources that fall flat. They’re boring, clumsy, and visually unappealing. All of which can be demotivating. But, what if there was a better way to put in the hours without falling asleep? What if there were engaging tools to support your own learning outside of German class?
We know that study that is beneficial and interesting is important to you, so we've compiled a list of the best resources out there designed to help adults practice the language they're already learning in the classroom. The best part? These resources are free.
The dark side of Vienna 5 Rules to Grumpiness
First things first, do you remember the first time you visited a traditional Viennese coffee house? You were probably excited - delighted by the lavish interior and the old school flair. Maybe a famous author or poet had been sitting in exactly the chair you were sitting in 100 years ago, who knows! What an exciting thought. And then the waiter came to take your order. You looked into his face and all your happiness and excitement evaporated into thin air.
10 Essential Austrian Words and Phrases (Part 3)
As a means to communication, language is essential to social life. Therefore, dear reader, you owe it to yourself and to your social life to give Austrian German the attention it requires. If you laughed when you read social life it is probably because you have just moved to Vienna which transformed yours from booming to nonexistent or because you spent last three months in quarantene. But worry not, it´s so over now!
