Selected by Germany's youth as their trendiest slang of the year, the expression "das crazy" beat two other shortlisted ...

The results of the latest German Youth Word of the Year poll are in. Here's the most popular slang words the kids in Germany ...

German has a lot of specific words for a lot of silly things, which sound ridiculous when translated literally into English. Here are ten of the best. The German language doesn’t mess around when it ...

"'Delicatessen' is a loanword, I think you call them," said my friend Claus. "You know, words you Americans basically stole from us and use as your own." Recently I had the opportunity to go to ...

The remarkable capacity of the English language to borrow and absorb, in regular usage, words from other languages – with words that originated in French and German before coming into common use in ...

Ever watch America’s Funniest Home Videos to laugh at all those people having all kinds of accidents? That’s Schadenfreude, a specific German word for this feeling. You feel a warm joy, pleasure — ...

To speak German confidently, it’s helpful to know how to pronounce words correctly. German has lots of similar phonemes to English, which should help when pronouncing a lot of German words. A phoneme ...

Some 1.2 million young people in Germany have selected "cringe" as their favorite "in" word. Two other English words made it into the top three. "Cringe" has been selected as Germany's youth word of ...