Settling into a dorm room or apartment in Germany for the first time can be a little daunting. Here are 15 things to buy when you move in that you might not have thought of...
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When you enter a German home, you might notice a stash of shoes in the front hall. Let this be your invitation to take your shoes off!
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There are several internationally recognised language ability testing systems that are used to rank a persons language proficiency, such as TOEFL or IELTS. Many students from the U.S. may not be familiar with the A-C language level rankings...
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The Elbe River is beautiful to walk along, especially if you have the time to go down to the shoreline (if the water is low enough on a given day). There were some nice little sights by the shore today. ...And maybe there was ice cream. Just maybe.
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One of the first major differences you might notice when you first go grocery shopping in Germany are the pallets and shelves of egg cartons, unrefrigerated and often just left wherever the shop has space...
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In English, the particular preposition that you use doesn't change the declension of a given word that follows it. In German however, any preposition that you use has an associated case- accusative, dative, or genitive- or is determined by the context of the sentence, as with two-way prepositions...
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