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.

Jenny takes us through more of the three hundred questions that can appear on the German citizenship test. Here's a trial exam of the Süddeutsche Zeitung.

It's Eva's laundry day, and she's ready to give us all of the necessary vocabulary for doing laundry in Germany.

In this second video about the questions on the German citizenship test, we learn more about the German constitution and vocabulary related to politics. Here's a trial exam of the Süddeutsche Zeitung.

Eva takes us through some of the chores she has to do when she cleans her apartment, and a few shortcuts that she's found along the way.

"Backe, backe Kuchen" is a popular German children's song. The lyrics can be traced back to a tradition in which a baker would signal that he was finished baking his bread so that the neighbors could come and use the warm oven to bake their cakes.

Xavier Naidoo's song "Was wir alleine nicht schaffen" from his album "Telegramm für X" is a song that has accompanied the German national soccer team on many occasions.

Barbara and her students in Tübingen build sentences with direct objects, reviewing the accusative as well as the difference between definite and indefinite articles.