A primary vote, a secondary, vote, and the five-percent hurdle: The German election is much more than two Xs on a ballot. In this video on the ABCs of Bundestag elections, you’ll learn all about these terms and the election process overall. Copyright: Deutsche Presse Agentur [The German Press Agency]

Viva con Agua is a Hamburg-based charity that helps people around the world have access to clean drinking water. Here, a group of local kids partake in a sponsored run – RUN4WASH – in order to raise money to help others.

Learn about various means of public transportation in Berlin. Gute Fahrt und viel Spaß beim Deutschlernen!

Sarah shows us around Karlsruhe's "Christkindlesmarkt" Christmas Market, which has three areas. She stops at various stands to buy a gingerbread heart, a mulled wine, and some alcohol-free children's punch.

Sarah continues exploring the Christmas market in Karlsruhe. She visits the talking "fairy tale boxes," the ice skating rink, and a stand where they make crêpes with Nutella!

The region Baden-Württemberg is one of the warmest areas of Germany. Yabla's own Cettina asks people at the lake how they are spending their summer, offering insight into German Badekultur and vacation preferences.

Sarah shows us four essential items that individuals can use to help the environment.

Lake Lucerne in central Switzerland is a large energy reserve that provides cold and hot water for individual and collective heating, cooling, and air conditioning needs in an environmentally friendly way. Find out more about how it works!

30 degrees Celsius instead of 40: The campaign "Wir drehen runter" ("We're turning it down") from the environmental foundation WWF and detergent brand Ariel aims to convince people to wash their clothes at lower temperatures. This not only protects the climate, but also saves energy and, therefore, money.

Bees are rapidly dying off – a major environmental problem – and there are numerous causes. The weekly political satire show extra 3, which is produced by Norddeutscher Rundfunk (Northern German Broadcasting), investigates colony collapse by sassily redubbing an old episode of Maya the Honey Bee, a 1970s Japanese TV series based on a German book.

When it comes to the climate crisis, hope isn't necessarily the first thing that springs to mind. However, there have been some encouraging developments. Here are five examples.

In their first survey, the youth editors at the Neue Württembergische Zeitung asked passersby in Göppingen (a town southeast of Stuttgart) how it feels to be beautiful. The pedestrians were surprised, touched, and flattered by this question!

The satirical mockumentary "Twinfruit: The Can Must Become Human" tells the story of a fictional advertising campaign for canned fruit. In Part I, we get to know Gunnar Kleiber, owner of the advertising agency Kleiber & Partner, as well as the firm’s new Creative Director, Lutz Wolf.

The creative team brainstorms for the canned-fruit advertising campaign — but they all realize that Lutz is the one who’s going to help them level up.

The Kleiber und Partner team is not making much progress with the new campaign… and the deadline is approaching!