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So you’ll probably notice this when using a computer in Germany, but German keyboards are set up differently than the usual English keyboards. In fact, instead of being QWERTY they are QWERTZ…if you know what I mean This difference can be particularly annoying if, for example, you are looking for the @ sign, in order [...]

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You can tell a lot about a car and driver by knowing how to read their license plate and in this episode of the myGermany podcast, that’s just what I do! In this video I mention that the, rather than being registered in Federal States (like New York, California, Texas, etc.) German cars are registered [...]

Ever so often I look under the hood of this site, you know, to check the stats, make sure everything is running well, and so on. I have a nifty little program in the back-end which shows me where people are coming from when they end up here. And it seems that in the past [...]

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Each year thousands of German first grade students get their first school bag  – Schulranzen, the bag that they will be using for the first 4 years of school. The bags themselves each cost upwards of €100 and are mandatory for children in elementary school. For years I’ve seen kids running around with these bags [...]