=> Link to Dr P’s popular intermediate German course Recognise words with a shared Germanic rootĭid you know that English and German developed from a common “Germanic” ancestor language? If you’re already an intermediate learner, what you’re about to discover will help you with one of your most pressing tasks: expanding your word power rapidly.īefore we go any further, vocabulary building is a central aspect of my popular intermediate Weekly German Workouts program, which you can check out here: Read this post and things will look less daunting at the start of your German journey. In this post, we’ll look at six German vocabulary keys to help you unlock the treasure chest of German vocab. Not so! If you discover just a little about where German gets its words from (and how longer words are formed) you’ll see that things aren’t so alien after all. Add to that those super-long words the language seems to love and you could be forgiven for thinking that German vocabulary is just impossible.

At first sight, you’ll probably recognise a lot fewer words in a German text than a Spanish or French one.

German words in english and in german