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Why do I need Wozu? um... zu

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Good day everyone! These times we are experiencing today are changing, hopefully to a more united, loving, and peaceful world. We need love to bind the world together. We need language to bring more communication with each other. And so I hope that today we can learn a little bit more about how we can say this "We need... to..." in German. So let's dive in! We need love for unity. ( pic: Instagram @perrygrone) Wozu? means roughly What for? in German. And this has a very specific kind of response in return. Let's look at the sentence: Wozu benutzt du die Schere? (What do you need the scissors for?) You would respond... Ich benutze die Schere, um Papier zu schneiden. (I need the scissors to cut the paper.) If you look at the structure of the response, you see that the sentence has the verb in second position (benutze) and the object that you need (die Schere) followed by a comma (,) with the other object (Papier) and the verb at the end (schneiden). ...

German Learning Seedlang Review

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Hallo Freunde! Hello and welcome to another Tuesday post. Today will be a little bit different and it will be a short and sweet review on German Learning online application called Seedlang ! Some background about me so you can understand where I am coming from when reviewing this app. I've moved to Austria in 2019 and before that I started learning German casually a year before. That means some Duolingo, a small group of friends who were learning, and an online Udemy course. I didn't listen to media outside of those avenues. One thing that I didn't do was hold any conversations with people in German. When coming to Innsbruck, it was a big shock to see how much I didn't understand and more of a shock, how limited I was in expressing myself. Once I started some German courses in person and getting a hang of the grammar and talking, I noticed that my small vocabulary was limiting conversation. And this is where I was lucky enough to find Seedlang! I've been usi...