In this video, Cettina and Sabine cook a delicious Hessian potato soup together. First they present the ingredients, and then it's off to the kitchen, where we can watch the preparation. Enjoy!

Who doesn't love the arrival of spring? Here’s a song to chase away the winter and welcome the beautiful season of renewal. The original lyrics are by Hoffmann, and sung here by Caroline Tudyka.

If you ask questions, you'll get answers — and you'll be conversing in German in no time! In this video, you'll get to know the German question words, which Eylin will also introduce with sample sentences.

"Kuckuck, Kuckuck, ruft's aus dem Wald" (Cuckoo, Cuckoo, Calls from the Woods) is a children's song written by the German poet August Heinrich Hoffmann, also known as Hoffmann von Fallersleben. The song is about the arrival of spring and the call of the cuckoo.

Using several examples, Sabine and Jan explain the weak verb "erklären" ("to explain") in the following verb tenses: present, simple past, present perfect, and conditional. The present perfect form of the verb is conjugated with the auxiliary verb "haben" ("to have") and in German often used similarly to the simple past, or preterite tense.

What's your favorite piece of clothing? And what's your favorite color? In this video, Eylin teaches us the German words for colors and clothing. Enjoy!

Jacob recites two poems by Mascha Kaléko: “Interview mit mir selbst” and “Im Exil.” The German-Jewish poet had to flee to America in 1938, and her works were banned in Germany after the Nazis labeled them “harmful and undesirable.”

The Yabla player is easy to use and offers several helpful tools. In this video, you’ll learn how to skip to certain parts of the video that you’d like to rewatch, slow down the speed, and play subtitles on a loop in order to improve your comprehension.

Dolphins sleep with one eye open? Crows are as intelligent as 8-year-old kids? Leopards freely roam the streets of Mumbai? In this video, Eylin tells us ten intriguing facts from the animal world.

In this video, Eylin introduces us to the words for the days of the week, the months of the year, and the four seasons. Enjoy!

Jan from Munich presents us with another fantastical story inspired by the adventures of Baron von Münchhausen — the “Baron of Lies.” Here, the hero rescues himself and his horse from a swamp.

Here, Eylin teaches us how to count from one to one thousand in German. She also explains the four basic arithmetic operations: addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.

Jan narrates another story based loosely on a tale by the fictional noble storyteller Baron Munchausen, a character created by Rudolf Erich Raspe in a book published in 1785. Here, the protagonist rides a cannonball over a besieged city.

Don't let yourself get confused by German’s special letters: ä, ö, ü, and ß! Here, Eylin breaks down the pronunciation of the entire German alphabet, plus double consonants, with examples. Enjoy!

In this video, Eylin explains the basics of definite and indefinite articles in German, and gives several helpful examples. Enjoy!