Can Germany’s new S-Bahn trains really improve daily commuting? Thomas and Harry explore surprising new features and practical vocabulary along the way.

Two men traveling by S-Bahn in Berlin are talking about the new design of the train they're sitting in.

We accompany Ivana to the street food festival in Heidelberg, where she tries specialties from all over the world and watches them being prepared. Come along!

Alina has completed a degree in early childhood education and talks about her new job at a children's daycare center.

Lotta and Oskar were just five and three years old when their grandfather suffered a heart attack at the playground. There were no adults in sight, but the little ones managed to get help.

Alina and Paula have arranged to meet this evening, and now they are making plans together. Watch this video and listen to the expressions they use.

Paula talks about her reasons for going vegan. What benefits does veganism have for the environment?

In this video, Anna and Teresa play a game called "Teekesselchen" ("Teapot"), in which you have to guess a word that has more than one meaning. Such words are called homonyms.

Here's a typical restaurant scene to help you learn some useful expressions and vocabulary for dining out.

What would it be like if there were fewer things we had to do and more things we got to do instead?

How do you describe the taste of different foods? That's not so easy, as you'll learn in this video. However, using various examples, Eylin shows us how it can be done.

Our favorite foods and drinks regularly add a lot of enjoyment to our lives! In this video, you'll learn some vocabulary for expressing what something tastes like.

In Germany, November to March is the season for colds. Eylin introduces us to all the important vocabulary related to this topic and shares some useful tips on how to alleviate the symptoms of the common cold.

If you were invited to have dinner with a group of Germans, would you know how to behave at the table? In this video, Eylin tells us what rules she was taught as a child.

Eylin tells us more about the trees that can be found in Germany. She also gives us a few simple pointers on how to recognize them, and tells us why she thinks people like trees so much.