For many new students, German's case system can be intimidating. Don’t get discouraged! In this video, Eylin helps demystify the four German cases: nominative, genitive, dative, and accusative.

Expand your household vocabulary with this video! Here, Eylin introduces you to the various tools she keeps at home to do repairs around the house.

How do we know whether to use “haben” or “sein” when forming the perfect past tense? Eylin gives you some guidelines to help you start out (there are always exceptions, of course!).

In the final part of the video, Eylin gives you the chance to apply what you’ve learned – and form the perfect tense on your own! Keep in mind that the German perfect tense is also used to speak about actions that are finished, and therefore is quite often best translated with the simple past tense in English.

How can we talk about the past in German? In this video, Eylin talks about how the perfect tense is formed. The perfect tense in German is equivalent to either the English preterite or present perfect depending on the context.

What else does Eylin have on her desk? Learn more German words for common office supplies, including hole punchers, envelopes and stamps, rulers, glue, and highlighters.

Eylin’s desk is covered in various objects related to her work. Learn the words for common office items, and for some art supplies, too!

Many different herbs grow in Eylin's garden – including sage, rosemary, and lavender! Use them for cooking or aromatherapy, or make some delicious medicinal teas.

What do hands tell us about a person? And are left-handed people more creative than right-handed people? What makes our hands so unique?

In this video, you'll learn important phrases and words to describe people. Eylin also tells you what kinds of guys she was attracted to in her early 20s!

Today, the topic of Ms. Klimper's class is the state of Saxony-Anhalt, and this time both Jan and Sabine have prepared very well.

Eylin shows us some important everyday objects from her kitchen. In this video, you will also learn the definite and indefinite articles that accompany the nouns.

What is everything around us actually made of? This is a question which has preoccupied mankind for centuries. In this video, Eylin tells us a little about the teachings of Empedocles and also what the Buddhists and ancient Chinese wisdom have to say on the matter.

In this third part on the basics of astrology, Eylin tells us more about the houses and their significance.

Eylin explains the advantages of writing by hand and why it is still worth doing even in the age of computer keyboards and smartphones.