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Word of the Month: Index Another addition to the KrautBlog aviary: Schnaps (one p!) should be known to English speakers—it's a gener...

The Gesellschaft für deutsche Sprache (Society for the German Language) made Wutbürger its word of the year for 2010. The term combines Wu...

I shot a frontal portrait of a chickadee yesterday that just had to be enhanced as shown. To my German friends: A chickadee is a Kohlmeise .

Bücher is the plural of Buch (book), and a Bücherwurm is the German equivalent of the English "bookworm"—a person who has no l...

I have a perspective on this issue (based in part on observations I made when I was living in Germany) that I see rarely voiced—that's w...

I selected the present word of the month after reading, in translation, Jürgen Habermas's essay Leadership and Leitkultur , which recen...

Dreck and Schmutz mean basically the same thing in German: dirt. A Spatz is a sparrow and a Fink a finch. Hitched to a word meaning ...