Yabla star reporter Diane takes to the streets of Karlruhe to ask people about their plans for New Year's Eve and their resolutions for the coming year with a suprisingly diverse array of responses. Guten Rutsch!

In part one of this series, Yabla star reporter Diane attends the Peter and Paul festival in Bretten, where she not only dons medieval garb, but proceeds to take lessons in loading and shooting a replica of an ancient matchlock musket, and all in a genuine Baden dialect!

You can find the candy called Schokoküsse ("chocolate kisses") in most supermarkets in Germany. Wolfgang Keil, however, custom makes them by hand in his mini-factory in Schotten, Hesse. Want chili peppers or beer in your chocolate? Keil will make anything you can think up to your own specifications. Guten Appetit! (video copyright dpa)

Brady tries to cover up his failure to do his homework with the new grammatic term "dative of the accusative", but Barbara isn't having any of it. She, on the other hand, seems to have crossed Tom Waits with John Waite, an interesting musical proposition indeed! So on with the relative pronouns and viel Spaß beim Lernen!

Singer-songwriter Jan Wittmer gives us a home performance of his “Weihnachtslied” (“Christmas Song”), which includes some very thoughtful social commentary on the real meaning of Christmas. Frohe Weihnachten!

Singer and entertainer Helene Fischer touches our hearts with her version of “Ave Maria”. The Yabla team wishes you a merry Christmas!

Monsters for Christmas? They are the sinister contrast to our friendly Santa Claus: While the latter likes to turn a blind eye to naughty children, the Krampus rattles his chain to get the necessary respect from the little ones. The Krampus run in Munich always takes place on two Sundays during Advent.

"I'm dreaming of a wet Christmas?" I'll bet it's the first time you've heard that one! Diving instructor Werner Lambert has placed an entire life-sized Christmas diorama underwater in the Moselle town of Bernkastel-Kues. Here's to a very wet Christmas! Copyright: Deutsche Presse Agentur [The German Press Agency]

In part two of this series, Yabla star reporter Diane is live and in person at the Christmas Cup Frisbee Championships in Karlsruhe. Diane interviews several players and we get some great shots of the game itself. Enjoy!

Diane and Franca take us through the basics of the verb machen, which in this video has been translated as "to do." Depending on the context, machen could also mean "to make." Try it out both ways and viel Spaß beim Lernen!

Singer-songwriter Philipp Poisel has a powerful, minimalist style, great lyrics and a fine feel for a good song. Kopfhörer aufsetzen, Musik aufdrehen!

Yabla's star reporter Diane takes us on a tour of the team sport Ultimate Frisbee at the Karlsruhe Christmas Cup. If you are up for starting the day with frisbee and a cold beer, then you have come to the right place!

Isabel Prahl and Maximilian Kaiser won this year's Advertising Oscar in the category of Best Student Film for their work "Poverty has many Stories." Ms. Prahl talks about working with gifted child actors and shows us a part of the short film.

It's hard to imagine an episode of "Cops" where the SWAT team emerges from the helicopter, heads for the locker room and settles down in the break room to... crochet? But the forces of law and order in North Rhine-Westphalia do just that, and for every knitted cap sold, five euros goes to a charitable organization! (video copyright dpa)

Barbara leads the class in the construction of relative clauses using a list of nouns and categories. The sheer volume of the text seems to have put the class on its best behavior! Viel Spaß beim Lernen!