Facts and Episodes
about Germany, the Germans and the German language
Business German: Four particularly important verbs and their pitfalls
If you take a beginner's course in general German, you may never encounter these verbs. If , however, you want to learn Business German efficiently, you will encounter them in the very first lesson - provided, of course, you learn Business German from a provider with...
Cross Culture: Is this the ‘typical German presentation’?
In the past few years, we have often helped executives from all over the world to prepare presentations in German. Sometimes this involved complete presentations. Sometimes our clients' German is only good enough for a short welcome and introduction in German. In this...
Highly Efficient German Vocabulary Training
Anyone who wants to communicate successfully in a language needs, of course, an extensive vocabulary. This is a necessary, but of course not yet sufficient condition. Of course, knowledge of grammar, among other things, is also indispensable. But let's concentrate on...
Scientific German – The Most Important Nouns
Technical language differs considerably from General German language. When we talk about Scientific German, it is clear that a chemist has a largely different technical language than an economist. However, there is an overlap – a vocabulary that is more or less...
Business German: Off the Peg or Unique?
You will hardly find a language course provider that does not also offer 'Business German'. "Something to do with business - we'll manage that." That's probably the thinking of some of our competitors. But what can you, as a demanding manager, expect from such...
“Vee haf vays of making you talk” (in German)
Yes, we have these means, and we have proven a thousand times over that they are extremely effective. But, of course, they are not the means you know from old war films of brutal SS men who use torture to force their prisoners to say what they don't want to say. Those...
Article Rules: What Mark Twain Didn’t Know
"Every noun has a gender, and there is neither sense nor system in the distribution; therefore you must learn the gender of each noun by heart. There is no other way. If you want to tackle this, you must have a memory like a memorial book." This is how Mark Twain saw...
Why Giuseppe learned German so incredibly quickly
Of course, a one-to-one intensive German course at S&W Training in Meersburg is basically a very time-efficient way to learn German. https://sw-training.com/executive-training/ But no one before had ever learned German as quickly as Giuseppe. This could not only...
The number of the month of May: 75
The Basic Law, the constitution for the Federal Republic of Germany, came into force on 23 May 1949. The Basic Law and the Federal Republic of Germany will therefore be 75 years old this May. The Basic Law begins with Article 1 (1): ‘Human dignity is inviolable. It...
Fitness Test: German Prepositions
For anyone who wants to learn another language, prepositions can be like little devils. "Which preposition goes with which verb?" Logic alone is often not enough to answer this question. The result: mistakes. So far this applies to many languages. Anyone who wants to...
Business German: Presenting Facts and Figures in German
In terms of grammar, Business German hardly differs from German as a general language. In terms of vocabulary, however, it differs a lot.. And here the purchasing manager in the automotive industry needs a largely different technical vocabulary than the chief...
About Spanish and German Lips
Iñaki was a very well-known manager in the automotive industry when he came to us for an intensive German course. Iñaki told me about his work. And then came this sentence: "Wir haben ein Berg in Brasilien" My spontaneous reaction might have been: "Iñaki, the mountain...