Often, teachers start with a heavy dose of vocabulary and leave German syntax and sentence structure until later. But some language scholars now think introducing sentence structure earlier in the ...

Good news, kind of. I discovered a new sentence structure I hate. It’s a pattern I see often but only recently, while editing an article, realized it belongs in my writing hall of shame.

In his first mission, Henning takes over a German beginners' class to teach them the basics: the alphabet. German just wouldn't be the same without the ß and the umlauts: ä, ö and ü.