Alina is in the northern Black Forest today and introduces us to Bad Wildbad, a pretty spa town that boasts a suspension bridge, as well as a treetop walking path from which you can explore the forest from up high!

Pepe and Max present their idea of a delivery service to Yara. She is immediately interested, but the details still need to be discussed first. Will the three of them end up in business together?

Eylin introduces us to some more important verbs in the preterite form as she tells us about her hiking adventure.

In this video, Eylin talks about her last hiking vacation using the German preterite (simple past), which is the tense more typically used in written German.

Nico's friends are watching an important soccer game when he comes into the café and tells them about his troubles with Selma.

Nico discovers that it was Pepe who told Selma's father about the two of them. Although it wasn't Pepe's fault, Nico is still mad at his brother. How could he be so clueless?!

In this second part, you will learn important vocabulary related to cooking and also get some valuable tips and recipe ideas.

Pepe is jogging through the park and talking to Selma's father on the phone when he suddenly happens to catch sight of her with Nico. Amused by the coincidence, he mentions it to the father in the phone call. What could be the harm in that?

It's Selma's birthday, and she meets up with Nico, who surprises her with a gift. But would her parents approve?

Today we're going to show you how to prepare Brandenburg stewed cucumbers! The "Schmorgurke" is a coarser and knobbier cucumber that is found in Germany, but you can use any cucumber you have at your disposal. Traditionally, this dish is made with bacon and milk, but you can also use almond milk and vegan margarine and leave out the bacon. Guten appetit!

What do people in Germany eat and what do many now pay attention to in terms of nutrition? Eylin shares her experiences.

This song by the German indie rock group from Germering near Munich made it to number one in the German singles charts and was often sung by German soccer fans during the 2006 world cup. Since Germany did not win in 2006, the title was changed to "'54, '74, '90, 2010."

In the fourth part of our lesson on the German cases, Eylin gives us some more examples and reassures us that we're not expected to get everything perfect right away!

In this part, Eylin clearly summarizes the declension of masculine, feminine, and neuter nouns in the singular and plural in all four cases. She explains everything step by step and gives you some practical examples.

In the second part of our lesson on the four grammatical cases, you will learn about their function within a sentence and you will also see what would happen if they did not exist!