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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 [...]

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 at [...]

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 and [...]

Okay, I know this seems like a funny topic for an episode, but you would not believe how many of our visitors to Germany comment on how odd German windows are…either that or they have problems figuring out how to work them. It’s wither that or they’ve somehow gotten the window off all hinges but [...]