Here’s where you can find exercises and work out to get the perfect beach body… I mean beach German.
There’s not much here yet but it’ll slowly grow :). I have different ideas for different areas of German and I’ll try them out in the coming months to see how you like it. But you can also help me:
If you have ideas for a cool exercise let me
know in the comments.
But now… Viel Spaß. And enjoy your Muskelkater :)
Pronunciation
Practice vocabulary and grammar while actually speaking.
I’m using the AI-Speech grading system by EF. It’s not perfect, but it’s pretty damn awesome. You’ll get instant feedback how well you said something and more importantly, this type of practice requires you to speak – no typing, no clicking boxes… just speaking :)
- “aufhören” – A Practical Guide
- “finden” – A Practical Guide
- Conditional – A quick exercise (A short practice for “würde”)
- ge-form Quiz(most important past participles)
- Saying the time in German (the informal way)
- Saying the time in German (the formal way)
- Past Tense – Verbs with “sein” (big exercise)
- Past Tense – Verbs with “haben”
- Past Tense – Mixed (small trial)
Listening comprehension
I’m reading you a little, fun folk tale, once slow and once normal, and you can read along. Or just listen. I do voices, too. At least I try :)
- “Der Hase” (no slow version yet)
- “Das Pfannkuchenbacken”
- “Der Hering”
- “Gehört ist nicht gesehen”
- “Das Weihnachtsgeschenk”
- “Der Lateinische Junge”
- A Berlin Crime Snippet – 1
Sentence structure
This work out trains your sentence building muscles. I give you a bunch of short sentences and you have to combine them into one long chunk. You train using connecting words as well as sentence structure. We discuss different versions in detail in the comments.
German Summer Camp
In August 2019, learners from all over the globe met here for the first ever, epic as never before German Summer Bootcamp.
In a series of heavy workouts about time words, cases, verbs and their prepositions and sentence structure, we practiced like maniacs.
The next bootcamp will come, but until then, you can relive the pain here :)
Viel Spaß (oh, you don’t really have to go in sequence)
Work Sheets
Worksheets… ugh. I always hated them. But maybe I have a work sheet system that you hate a little less.
The idea is that you DON’T write on the sheet. The solution is right next to the question. You just have to cover it with a piece of paper or your hand. And then you can do the exercise the way you please… write down full sentences, read it out from the page or just do it in your head.
They’re not meant to be done just once. Use them again and again until you know the examples. That way you’ll build up patterns and automatize stuff. Everybody learns differently so maybe it’s not what you need. But maybe it’s just that :)
Oh… each sheet is a pdf.
- “zu” or “um zu” (post with the exercise in it)
- German Spoken Past – 1 (pick the right helper and the right ge-form)
- … more coming soon…
Hello Emanuel, your style of expression is so smooth thank you for your efforts. I hope ı will be a member soon
Thanks a lot and I’ll see you soon, then :)
Hallo, Emanuel. Aus irgendeinem Grund funktioniert “new search” nicht. Als Ergebnis kann ich nicht richtig “Dictionary” benutzen. Könnten Sie bitte diese Funktion überprüfen. Danke
Hi Alex, bei mir funktioniert es. Kannst du mir ein paar Details geben? Welches Gerät verwendest du, welchen Browser, und was genau passiert, wenn du versuchst, die Suche zu benutzen?
Hi Emanuel.
Ich verwende einen Tischcomputer (desktop) und Google Chrome
Leider kann ich nicht ein Screenshot hier einfügen. Also, hier sind meine Schritte:
Nichts passiert
Drück mal “enter”. Das Lupe-Zeichen ist nur ein HIntergrund. Das muss ich ändern, es ist verwirrend.
Vielen Dank!
hello :) just became a member because i appreciate your effort and like your style. not everybody is into details whilst learning language. I have always been a bit nerdy rather than fully functional when it comes to that. i mean your talent in math, even though you didn’t follow that path, i think it makes sense when you’re finding the teeny tiny details and correlating. stuff. i don’t know, it calms my mind to read an article here, i somehow feel less pressure. here in Berlin for two years. actually i could have written that in german. damn english’s charming casualness.. :) take care. and stay a bit weird, i guess.
“, it calms my mind to read an article here, i somehow feel less pressure.”
Reading that made me really happy! That was always one of the goals of this format that people calm down and forget about the quick fix, quick hack, 3 minute attentions span internet world.
So yeah… vielen Dank für das schöne Feedback. Und nächstes Mal wirklich auf Deutsch bitte :D
yuppi
Hallo Emanuel, I just saw easygerman’s “Streiten” video. Sag mal, how do I get to go on a date with you?
Hmm, I’m flexible, but you’d have to talk to my girlfriend about that first :D.
Hello, deine Webseite gefällt mir sehr. Du bist sehr sympathisch und ich lerne viel von deinen Artikeln, indem ich Spaß habe. Kannst du bitte auch über Nomen- Verben Verbindungen schreiben? Ich gebe zu, dass die keine Grammatik Fach sind, aber sie sind sehr nützlich, um Deutsch richtig zu sprechen und zu verstehen. Vielen Dank aus der gesperrt Italien! Francesca
Wow, du schreibst ziemlich gut! Glückwunsch!
Was meinst du denn genau mit Nomen-Verb-Verbindungen? Sorry, wenn das eine dumme Frage ist, aber ich bin mir wirklich nicht sicher.
Liebe Grüße aus dem nicht ganz gesperrten Berlin.
hi,
i would really love an access to the small quizzes you give sometimes at the end of each article. sometimes i don’t want to read the article as i feel i know the word already and would concentrate my energy on something else. however, i would still like to test my knowledge of the words just to be sure (and also because its fun :-P)
Thank you for doing this! It is now easy to find and repeat all of my favorite sweat-inducing exercises.
Go German-speaking, go!
Yeayyyyy :)!
Soweit bin ich voll beeindruckt mit dieser Webseite. Je mehr Übungen, die du machst, desto besser, weil die Autonomie und leichte Laune, die du gibst, für Spaß macht.
Hi :)
Thank you for sharing these audio stories with text.
I’ve just started to learn German and I wanted to ask you:
Am I OK to share these stories on my LingQ account? With a link to your blog of course.
Wait, do you mean the mp3-file? Or just the text? As long as there’s a link, that’s fine but do you need the files?
ich möchte fragen, ob diese Seite tot ist? es sieht wirklich cool und hilfreich aus.
Nein, ich poste jede Woche, beantworte alle Kommentare, und mache neue Übungen zu alten Artikeln :)
coool. ich habe ein Fehler gemacht, die Einstellung des Kommentars war “oldest” ersten. I have dipped my toe :))))
Cool :). Viel Spaß hier!! Sag Bescheid, wenn du Hilfe brauchst, ich organisiere zur Zeit das Archiv ein bisschen neu, und es ist alles etwas chaotisch.
Hi, Love the webpage, really helps me out if things aren’t clear enough from the german course I am attending. I would love to see(hear) a listening comprehension exercise that focuses on real life situations. Eg A mock interpretation or role-play of ordering food in the restaurant, getting a drink at the bar, announcements in the airport or bahnhof etc. I do enjoy the fables and fairytales as well but would find it more useful to practice listening to something I may(or probably will) hear frequently on the streets. Anyway just a suggestion. Thanks for all the hard work you’ve put into clarifying such mysterious and hard to explain grammar concepts.
Mason H
I love your website. It has by far the best German/English explanations and I love your perspectives. Suggestions for exercises would be more English-to-German sentences as that is how my brain works (for now, anyway). Thank you.
I am not sure if I should be leaving a comment here – but I am not sure how else to ask for help.
I am finding it impossible to find a German verb conjugator that has English translations right next to it (not somewhere else).
It is hopeless for me to see (for example):
ich werde
du wirst
er/sie/es wird
wir werden
ihr werdet
sie/Sie werden … and the many other associated lists (14? – such as, Präteritum, Plusquamperfekt, Vergangenheit, etc.) without the translations.
I want to see lists with German conjugation AND English translation TOGETHER, such as:
ich werde I will
du wirst you will
er/sie/es wird he/she/it will / becomes etc.
wir werden
ihr werdet
sie/Sie werden ..
Any idea where I could find such a beast?
Thanks
You might like this one:
http://cooljugator.com/de/machen
Their built in search is a bit weird (was hard to find machen without a prefix) but yeah… that’s essenitally what you were looking for.
what could an answer be in German for= what can we do in London
In sense of doing something fun for the evening?
“Was kann man in London machen/unternehmen” would work and also “Wo kann man in London so hingehen?” and “Was ist in London so los?”
Hope that helps.
I love this blog!!!!
The blog loves you back!
Mit großem Interrese lese ich jeden Tag Ihr Blog! Es ist echt wunderbar und hilft mir mehr zu verstehen
Es würde hilfreich, wenn Sie eine Übung an fügen, die wie der B2 – Goethe Test ist. Teil : schreiben. In dieser Übung gibt es einen
Brief, den Fehler in jedem Satz enthaltet und wir müssen dieser Fehlr entdecken.
Das ist eine interessante Idee!! Vielleicht mache ich das wirklich mal. Oder wir könnten es so machen, dass die Leser einen Text schreiben und dann suchen wir alle zusammen.
I’d love to check out how the Spoken Past form works, but it doesn’t seem to have a link.
Oh, weird. That link disappeared for some reason. I restored it. Should work now. Viel Spaß
Ich glaube, du hast eine sehr gute Idee. Mir gefällt diese Sektion. Ich wünsche dir viel Erfolg damit. -Eric
Danke, falls du Ideen für Übungen hast, sag mir Bescheid.