The verb "machen" (to make / to do) is used very often in German. In this video, Eylin introduces some frequently used phrases involving “machen,” and provides its conjugations in the perfect tense.

What's the difference between "tun" and "machen?” While they both are translated as “to do,” there are some clear distinctions. Eylin breaks it down in this video. Enjoy!

How do people in German cities get from one place to the next? Eylin looks at the possibilities in Hamburg, where she has found owning a car to be quite impractical.

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.

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

In this video, Eylin tells us about contractions in the German language and gives us some common examples.

Here are some more contractions that are frequently used in spoken German. In many cases, they are made up of a preposition and an article.

To be able to join in a conversation, it is important to know some typical ways to confidently begin a sentence. Because once that's taken care of, the rest will follow much more easily!

In the second part of this mini-series, Eylin introduces us to more common sentence starters and shows us how to respond appropriately. There's also a great tip for practicing and remembering sentence starters.

Cell phones can be both a blessing and a curse! Eylin has some advice on how to stop this potentially addictive means of communication from taking over your life.

What was life like back in the days when there were no cell phones? Eylin talks about the time when she used to live in a shared house and 12 people had to share a single phone.

In the first part of this video series on German prepositions, Eylin starts by giving us an overview of these "little words" by dividing them into five groups.

This video is about a specific group of prepositions, which, depending on the situation, sometimes require the dative and sometimes the accusative. Eylin gives us several examples to help us understand the difference between the two.

The third part of this series deals with the temporal, modal, and causal prepositions, which Eylin introduces with examples to help clarify how they are used.

In the final part of this series on prepositions, Eylin introduces some other common expressions with prepositions and provides an example sentence for each one.