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This is the first episode of an engaging B1-level journey through Germany, where each episode brings you closer to real-life language and culture. In this first episode, Bruce, Richard, and Jason a...

 In this German grammar lesson you will learn all you need to know about reflexive verbs and pronouns in German. 

If you wished that this lesson had more example sentences in it, I made a lesson j...

Today I’m going to teach you how to use the accusative case personal pronouns in German. 

If you really want to master the German case system, you need Herr Antrim's book "Mastering the German Cas...

There are a number of German phrases that use the dative case, but aren’t immediately obvious why that is. Today we will be exploring some of these dative phrases and I’ll explain why they use the ...

In this lesson I will explain pretty much every dative verb you will ever come across. These are German verbs that for some reason or other require a dative object. Similar to dative phrases, these...

Dative pronouns in German are super easy. Once you know how to use the dative case with indirect objects, using the personal pronouns in the dative case with indirect objects is a breeze.

In a pre...

Lots of German learners think that the dative case is the most complicated of the German cases, but it doesn’t have to be. Over the next several lessons I will teach you all of the things you need ...

What is the deal with mögen, möchten and wollen? Mögen means “to like”, but there is also “gern haben”, which means “to like”. There is also “wollen”, which means to want and this word, I see all o...

In this German grammar lesson I will teach you how to use the two-part conjunctions, sometimes also called “compound conjunctions” or “Doppelkonjunktionen”. By the end of this lesson you will be an...

This lesson is my 4th and final lesson about German conjunctions. I’ve already explained coordinating, subordinating and two-part conjunctions. Today I will teach you how to use the German adverbia...

If you want to learn how to use subordinating conjunctions in German such as dass, weil, ob, wenn and more, you have come to the right place. Not only will I explain the word order and sentence str...

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Conjunction junction, what’s your function?
Hookin’ up words and phrases and clauses.
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This song is a classic and it explains perfectly what conjunctions do. They connect words, phr...