Okay, well that should be the word of the day: tardy. Because just when I convinced myself that posting the words every other day would be acceptable, I’ve now gone three days without posting them! Shame on me.

Without further ado, your German words of the day for 15-17 February:

Umsteigen means to change (trains [...]

Well, we’ve managed to straighten out the confusion on our German class. Luis and I have spoken with our teacher and decided to withdraw from the intermediate class, and we’ll be working independently with our teacher, Frau Clarke, to cover the 11 lessons we missed between Beginner 1 and Intermediate. So hooray for learning [...]

Sometimes I just don’t get to posting them every day. Oh well; at least I catch up.

Yesterday: wissen to know a fact, and kennen to know or be familiar with a person or place.

For English speakers, this one’s a bit tough, because we use the verb to know in both instances. But given [...]

Today’s word is die Wäsche, the laundry.

Bring die Wäsche in den Keller! Bring the laundry to the basement!

Which is fitting, because I have a load of whites in the laundry right now.