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Meiner auch nicht :). Wie willst du denn bezahlen… über Kreditkarte (Stripe) oder Paypal? Ich muss mal gucken, wie man da die Währung auswählen kann.
Schreib mir vielleicht einfach eine Mail…

I’ll got to check with the payment processor (I guess Stripe in your case). I’ll get back at you soon! Ich melde mich

No need to thank me, thank the community. They pitched in, I just forwarded it :). Viel Spaß weiter hier. Oh and… are ants actually tasty?

If you’re visiting the site while being logged in you’ll get a little window after clicking on two articles. There, it’ll say “find out more” and if you click there you’ll get to the same page you can see from the top “become a member” menu. When you go there this way, I thought it keeps your information. Have you tried that?

Could you send me a quick email… then I’ll check if there’s some payment and we can see how we do this (the payment process is done by Paypal entirely, so I can’t really tell what’s going wrong). Oh and let me know (in the email) which code you were trying. Sorry for the trouble.

It’s at the bottom of the page.

Ja du bekommst eine Bestätigungsmail. Schreib mir mal bitte eine Email und sag mir wann du dich registriert hast, und von welcher Adresse und mit welchem Namen. Dann kann ich gucken, was nicht funktioniert hat.
info@german-is-easy.com

Hi John,
after signing up, you should get an email with a link to a login.
In general, the login is at this address:

yourdailygerman/login

There, you can put in your user and password and you should be good to go.

Now… I checked the email address you used for the comment and it was not in the memberslist. So if you used this one, then something indeed went wrong. Could you drop me a quick mail about what was your username/sign up/email and how you payed (with or without paypal).
But try the login first.
Sorry for the complications
Emanuel

You can read more than two articles a week.

No, the thing is that you can only fully access two within 7 days (per device). So after you’ve read two, they will be cut off after the beginning. I chose this way because I wanted everything to be accessible for everyone. It’s just if you want to really use the site to study and read more than 2 per week, that you need to pay :)

Hi there, the membership should not affect the emails. They are two entirely separate lists. When did you become a member and since when have you not received an email? The last one went out last Wednesday.

Hi beezwei,
actually the email notifications have nothing to do with the membership. I had to switch mail providers about a year ago and I think I lost a few addresses in the process. You can just sign up for the newsletter for free at the little orange box that’s on the bottom right corner of the page :).

Nice username, by the way. Are you beezwei or is that your goal?

Hey man, it’s always great to hear that also native speakers enjoy reading my stuff :).
I don’t have any recommendations for something similar in English, but I’d actually bet that it exists. There are plenty of blogs about the English language and at least some of them ought to use a similar approach.
Wenn du was findest, sag mir Bescheid :)

Hey James, sorry for the slight delay with answering :).
So about your questions:

1) Is the site useful for a complete beginner? Yes, I believe so. In the course section there’s a chunk of lectures called “the essentials” and this starting at absolute zero. I am using many examples of course and those will contain loads of new words. You don’t have to know all of those, your brain will remember the important stuff :). As for the other articles, I have a category called “A-Level”. The explanations there are beginner friendly in that they don’t contain complicated grammatical concepts or speech. Again, you won’t understand all there is in there but 60 to 70% which is perfectly fine.

2) What’s the difference between the phrasings? Well, they all convey the same information and the difference is tone and “idiomacy”. Using “Sie” and “Ihr” is a polite form of speaking while using “du” and “dein” is informal. Using the phrasing with “Name” is more formal sounding than the one with “heißen” so it fits better with the formal “Sie”. But there’s a lot of personal preference involved when it comes which version people use.

3) How to say “Have you placed the order”… here, I can give you one of the most common answers for questions about German: it depends. On the context. The English phrasing sounds somewhat formal to my ears, but I really need a bit more info to tell you what would be the idiomatic translation in German.

Hope that helps a bit :)

Just emailed you :)

Danke, das freut mich :):)