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The German verb machen means to do/ make/ create. It gets conjugated as follows: The perfect tense goes with ‘haben’ and the past participle is ‘gemacht’, and in the imperfect tense it’s ‘ich machte’. This page contains affiliate links to Amazon. It means I’ll get a few pence if you buy anything – at no ...

Learning German can feel exciting one day and difficult the next. You may know you should review vocabulary, practise grammar, or listen to a German podcast, but sometimes it is hard to get started. Every German learner experiences this at some point. And not just German learners, every language learner experiences this at some point. ...

Welcome to another month of the German Action for Happiness Calendars. As before, you can if you wish also print out a PDF version. And if you want or need to, you can see it here in English, where you also find further foreign languages. Use the following sentences as a German reading and translation exercise and then act on ...

Welcome to my next blog post based on our season 6 ‘Ask Angelika’ shows with practical or useful sentences you might hear or use yourself in certain scenarios. Today we’re covering sentences you might hear or need when playing chess with Germans. If you need a reminder what the chess pieces are called in German, ...