Life in Germany: When English Is Your Native Language
Photo coypright dpa / picture alliance Being an English native speaker on Erasmus is tough. There are two main reasons: Number #1 (the lesser of the two evils..) Everyone will try to speak to you in...
View ArticleLiving in Germany: Sunlight? What sunlight?
Photo copyright Liv Hambrett Liv Hambrett is an Australian expat living in Germany. Visit her blog, follow her on twitter, or buy a copy of Sincere Forms of Flattery, an anthology that includes her...
View ArticleParty Like a German
Photo copyright Liv Hambrett Liv Hambrett is an Australian expat living in Germany. Visit her blog, follow her on twitter, or buy a copy of Sincere Forms of Flattery, an anthology that includes her...
View ArticleLiving in Germany: On German Directness
Photo copyright dpa Liv Hambrett is an Australian expat living in Germany. Visit her blog, follow her on twitter, or buy a copy of Sincere Forms of Flattery, an anthology that includes her work. Often...
View ArticleBecoming German
Photo copyright dpa Liv Hambrett is an Australian expat living in Germany. Visit her blog, follow her on twitter, or buy a copy of Sincere Forms of Flattery, an anthology that includes her work. In...
View ArticleGerman Cuisine: Summer Drinks
Photo copyright Liv Hambrett Too cold to remember summer? Try one of Liv Hambrett’s favorite summer drinks to remind yourself. Only four, five, six more months to go… Perhaps because Summer is such a...
View ArticleLearning German: Bavarian Dialects
Photo copyright dpa Liv Hambrett is an Australian expat living in Germany. Visit her blog, follow her on twitter, or buy a copy of Sincere Forms of Flattery, an anthology that includes her work. And I...
View ArticleExpat Survival Basics: Ten Facts About German Health Insurance
Today myGermanExpert are here to share a few facts about getting health insurance in Germany. Photo (cc) flickr user Leo Reynolds Since 2007, expatriates in Germany are obliged to be covered with a...
View ArticleExpat Survival Basics: Visa Facts
Photo copyright dpa / picture alliance Want to work or study in Germany? Or just want to visit the country? Read the requirements below & fill in the visa application forms at the end of this...
View ArticleErasmus Year: Das War Es
Photo copyright dpa / picture alliance My Erasmus year has come full circle. Ten months ago I sat in an empty room with only Skype and my kettle for company, surrounded by white walls and unpacked...
View ArticleNational Temperaments: Germany Versus Ireland
The Irish temperament is quite different from that of the Germans. Photo copyright dpa The Irish are known for their amazing ability to let things slide and not get too worked up about anything in...
View ArticleErasmus: Settling Into a New Life
Photo copyright dpa/picture alliance Erasmus is an eye-opener. It’s actually just so liberating that I can’t fully express it in words. I’ve been in Germany just over a month, but I feel like I’ve been...
View ArticleExpat Life: The Hard Choices
Photo copyright dpa Today we’re welcoming Liv Hambrett–an Australian writer in Germany–back to the Young Germany blog. During the coming months you will be able to read about her decision to move to...
View ArticleExpat Life: There and Back Again
Kiel. Photo copyright dpa Our six months in Kiel up, we packed SG’s car full to the brim – really, packed it – and drove back down and across the country to Weiden, where we’ll stay now until some time...
View ArticleLearning a Foreign Language: Kicking the Dictionary
German as a foreign language dictionary. Photo copyright dpa We’ve spent the last handful of Mondays reading about Australian expat Liv Hambrett’s backstory. Now its time to get into the details....
View ArticleLeipzig, Wifi, and the Deutsche Bahn
Photo copyright Liv Hambrett Liv Hambrett is an Australian expat living in Germany. Visit her blog, follow her on twitter, or buy a copy of Sincere Forms of Flattery, an anthology that includes her...
View ArticleVisiting Berlin: Villenkolonie
Photo copyright Liv Hambrett Liv Hambrett is an Australian expat living in Germany. Visit her blog, follow her on twitter, or buy a copy of Sincere Forms of Flattery, an anthology that includes her...
View ArticleSylt: The German Hamptons
Sylt. Photo copyright Liv Hambrett Liv Hambrett is an Australian expat living in Germany. Visit her blog, follow her on twitter, or buy a copy of Sincere Forms of Flattery, an anthology that includes...
View ArticleLiving in Germany: The Language Battle
Photo copyright dpa / picture alliance Liv Hambrett is an Australian expat living in Germany. Visit her blog, follow her on twitter, or buy a copy of Sincere Forms of Flattery, an anthology that...
View ArticleExpat Life: Deciding to Leave
Pulling up roots can be sad-and exhilerating. Photo copyright dpa Liv Hambrett is an Australian expat living in Germany. Visit her blog, follow her on twitter, or buy a copy of Sincere Forms of...
View ArticleFrozen roses
Photo (c) Resident on Earth Yesterday was Rosenmontag (Rose Monday), part of Germany’s carnival celebrations before Lent. This is a time of year when Germans don silly costumes in order to...
View ArticleSix years in germany: Expat reflections
The author during her second year in Germany, overlooking Dresden. Photo (c) ClickClackGorilla I suppose time has always moved at this pace, but with something to measure it by, it always appears to...
View ArticleThe Expat Life: Reinventing Tradition
Thanksgiving is an American holiday that revolves around a large family meal of fall harvest foods. Photo (cc) flickr user Sultry My first Thanksgiving in Germany was a small ordeal. I bought some...
View ArticleA British-Brazilian Expat in Berlin
Berlin's famous tv tower. Photo (cc) flickr user Robby van Moor Fernando is a British-Brazilian expatriate living in Berlin, Germany and working for iversity, whose work we’ve featured on Young Germany...
View ArticleAmerican Military Brat Back in Germany
Welcome to our new YG blogger Jesse! Photo (c) Jesse Woods According to Wikipedia, the term Military brat “describes people who spend their childhood or adolescence while a parent (or parents) serve...
View ArticleExpat Life: What to Tell Friends Who Want to Send You Packages
Getting a package stuck in customs can be a pain. But if you know what to do, your packages are less likely to land there! Photo (cc) flickr user miskan Friday morning on my way to the Mainz customs...
View ArticleExpat Life: German Sauna Culture
German saunas: I love ‘em! Photo (cc) flickr user Matti Mattila Summer has come to Mainz, Germany in a big rainy mess. Days are warm (ish). It rains. It’s gray for weeks. Then suddenly it’s hot as...
View ArticleExpat Life: Fahrenheit versus Celsius
Photo (cc) flickr user sneaka I bet you didn’t know that becoming an expat endows you with magical powers. Yup. I’m here to tell you: become an expat, and you’ll find yourself performing...
View ArticleTop 10 Ways to Deal With Culture Shock
A good friend introduced me to one of her sacred places in Hamburg, inside the Rathaus courtyard. It is a little oasis right in the middle of the chaos of downtown and one of my new sacred places now...
View ArticleExpat Life: Bilingual Babies
Raising a bilingual baby brings along a new set of parenting challenges. Photo (cc) flickr user xopherlance So we live in Germany. I am American. My husband is German. Watching a little person learn...
View ArticleExpat Life: A Seven-Year Anniversary
The Frankfurt skyline. Photo (cc) flickr user salomon10 When we are small time seems to pass so slowly. There are days that feel like weeks, hours that feel like days. As we get older the chorus...
View ArticleHamburg, Germany: Top Ten Reasons I Love Living Here
Despite my fear of heights I climbed around 500 steps up to the top of St. Petri’s Church and it was worth it to get this gorgeous view of this beautiful city! Photo Kristi Fuoco How do I love thee...
View ArticleThere and Back Again: An Expat’s Tale
A brief moment of sun on my beautiful west coast at Christmas. My friend and I took a stroll on the famous Stanley Park Seawall so I could soak up my beautiful BC. Photo Kristi Fuoco Happy be-lated New...
View ArticleOne Year in Germany: What I’ve Learned
One of my favourite spots back in Vancouver was UBC’s Nitobe Japanese gardens. When I discovered this Japanese garden at Klein-Flottbeck in Hamburg I immediately felt at home. You just gotta have...
View ArticleExpat Life: Getting Settled
Photo copyright dpa / picture alliance Everyone settles into life in a new country at a different rate. Some are immediately at home, while others never feel completely comfortable. Homesickness,...
View ArticleLoving and Living: The Berlin Episode
Just another beautiful moment in a Berlin park. Photo copyright dpa/picture alliance Today L of Cup of tea anyone? is joining us for another guest post about why she loves Berlin. Enjoy! You can find...
View ArticlePlaymobil Turns 40
from the Piri-Piri Lexicon Photo copyright Piri-Piri Lexicon Germany’s small towns are great at creating and hosting small businesses that specialise in something very particular and quickly take on...
View ArticleThe Week in Germany: Graduate School, German Whisky, and Summer Trips
Photo copyright dpa / picture alliance Good morning and happy Friday, readers! I’ve been away for a few weeks, so there was a lot to catch up on. This is more like a month in Germany than a week, but...
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