language learning

Good, short reads in English can be a magic carpet that takes you on fantastic journeys, says Language Editor Joanna Westcombe.

Dagmar Taylor writes: "My daughter wanted to watch little Robbie Williams play tricks on people."

How do you remember der, die, das? English has a similar problem with this, that, these and those, writes Dagmar Taylor.

"I knew a little German. What could go wrong?": Dagmar Taylor describes her first visit to Germany.