Learn German - for FREE!!

Welcome to "Learn German for FREE"

About this site

This site is primarily for English speaking people to gain sufficient knowledge of the German language to enable travel through German speaking countries and to at least have the ability to order a coffee or a train or bus ticket. The intention is not to teach you to speak German as a German would learn. It is also the intention of the site to assist German speaking people to learn a little English - but as spoken by Australians - so they too can travel through Australia and maybe order a hamburger or schooner of beer.

It is also not the intention to go into great depth of the how's and why's of the reasons you should speak the language one way or another. However, there are some rules of speaking German that at least must be attempted to be adhered to. See here ....

If you are having difficulty following along learning German from this site, then we highly recommend Rocket Languages to painlessly learn the language.

Another purpose is to inform you of the two country's customs, interesting things, places to visit and cultural events to attend.

A little about the German language

German is the official language of Germany and Austria, with dialects spoken in Switzerland, Eastern France and Lichenstein. Lëtzeburgesch, an official language of Luxembourg, is a German dialect spoken by about 400,000 people there.

German is the second most spoken native language in Europe after Russian; and it is also the third most taught foreign language worldwide. It is spoken by approximately 100 million native speakers and a further 20 million non-native speakers - including dialects in Luxemburg and some other French regions.

And some more about the English language

English is the official language spoken in over 50 countries and also one of the official languages for the United Nations, European Union, Commonwealth of Nations, NATO, NAFTA and UKUSA. There are up to 400 million people who speak English as a first language, and English is the third most spoken language on the planet, behind Mandarin and Spanish.

Countries with the highest population that speak English as a native language are: USA, United Kingdom, Australia, Ireland, South Africa, and New Zealand.