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My first “serious” German job was in an office where everyone spoke very fast and used words I had never […]

One of my favourite German memories is standing in front of a dictionary shelf in a bookshop, staring at a

My first week in Germany, a letter arrived from some mysterious insurance office. I opened it, saw one single word

On my first day in a German language course, the teacher asked us to describe a classmate. Easy, I thought.

My first serious German conversation was at a birthday dinner in Berlin.Everyone was discussing a film. I said things like:

My biggest German nickname fail happened in a shared kitchen. A flatmate walked in, stole a piece of my chocolate,

My first month in Germany, I said danke /ˈdaŋkə/ so often people probably thought it was my last name. The

The first time I tried to sound polite in German, I walked into my apartment building at about 9 p.m.,