In English, shorter adjectives are compared by adding certain endings ("green," "greener," "greenest"), while longer adjectives require the words "more" and "most" ("helpful," "more helpful," "most helpful"). In German, the rules are quite different and the endings are always used. Moreover, the same forms are used as both adjectives and adverbs. Here, Yabla's own Eva explains some of these concepts with examples.

Naya tries to play princess, but Jo has been playing in the mud all day and is not exactly fit to play the role of a prince. At least he has a nice song to sing about it!

Yabla's own Cettina takes us through additional questions regarding the law, voting, and the court system in Germany.

Philipp Dittberner is a German singer and winner of the Berliner Pilsner Music Awards, a competition for newcomers in the German music scene. Enjoy!

AnnenMayKantereit is a German rock band from Cologne, founded by Christopher Annen (guitar), Henning May (vocals), and Severin Kantereit (percussion) in 2011. "Wohin du Gehst" is a song from their recent album Alles nix Konkretes.

Eva shows us a few common German figures of speech that will surely impress your fellow students, as well as any Germans you speak with!

Cettina takes us through the fifth installment of questions related to the German citizenship test.

Nora Gomringer is a poet and writer who recently won the prestigious Ingeborg-Bachmann-Preis. In this video, she reads a poem by the German author and painter Hans Bötticher, who was better known by his pen name Joachim Ringelnatz.

Plural nouns are tricky in German, but Eva clarifies the different types of endings and gives us some good examples.

"Und wenn ein Lied" is a hit single from Xavier Naidoo and his band Söhne Mannheims ("Sons of Mannheim").

Cettina helps us with seventeen more of the questions found on the German citizenship test.

Here is a video from the soulful Frida Gold with an epic, uplifting song about love, loneliness, and life.

The German rock band AnnenMayKantereit (a combination of the members' last names) had their first major success with this song "Barfuß am Klavier" ("Barefoot at the Piano").

Barbara helps her students understand that there are many ways to say the articles "the" and "a" in German, and you have to know when to use which one.

Football may have brought them together, but the members of this sports club have other talents too! In this video, they sing "Wir lassen uns das Singen nicht verbieten," a hit from schlager singer Tina York.