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Spanish
Spanish Question Words

Question words or interrogative words in Spanish (palabras interrogativas) are used to gather information about any topic. All question words in Spanish have an accent

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Spanish
Spanish Basic Greetings

You never get a second chance at a first impression! Part of making a good first impression is understanding when to use formal greetings versus

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German
German Review of all Tenses

There are 6 basic tenses in German. The two ‘simple’ tenses are present and simple past. They use just one, conjugated verb. The four ‘compound’

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German
German Idioms

Not only will learning idioms improve your German comprehension, but it’ll also give you insight into German culture and history. German idioms are chock-full of

Useful Basic German Phrases
German
Use the German Personal Pronoun ‘Es’

The German personal pronoun es is the English equivalent of it and has similar functions. Es is certainly used as “it” in both the nominative

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German
German selber and selbst

When selbst precedes the noun or phrase to which it relates, then it has the emphatic meaning “even”, as an adverb. In other positions, selbst is completely equivalent to selber,

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German
German Relative Pronoun Types

A Relative Pronoun is a pronoun that introduces two types of clauses, namely, a relative clause/ adjective clause and a noun clause. The commonly used

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German ‘Je-desto’ and ‘umso’ Clauses

In English, we would say “the more you practice, the better you will speak German.” In German, these types of parallel comparatives are called Proportionalsätze. Je+

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German
German Verbs with Prepositions

Prepositions in combination with verbs can specify things like position, time, possession or the way something is done. German verbs with prepositions can have fixed