Until last month.

Last month I gave a little house and started renovating. Now, you should probably know that I am one of those people who doesn’t have a clue about building. I would have liked to keep it that way, but then some nice people gave me my little house for free, just because they didn’t feel like doing any of the work that it needed. So I grudgingly, hopefully, decided I would try.

Lego Brick. Photo: Flickr (cc) Windell H. Oskay, www.evilmadscientist.com

The stereotype that Germans are particularly efficient might be mostly myth, but what truth there is to the stereotype is evident in the language.

In German you can string any number of words together to make new words.  Why make up a whole new word when you can put two words together to articulate the same point?  While English grammar is obsessed with communicating things in extreme detail, with a new word for every object or concept or idea, German grammar saves time with a plethora of compound words that make learning German all the easier for the newbie.  Less vocabulary to learn.  More time to drink frothy beer.

Check out Young Germany’s new German learning Podcast, as we speak to young people about the financial crisis.

Podcast: Interview Finanzkrise
Download the podcast on the main YG website here:

http://tinyurl.com/c2r8pc