Easiest German words to learn

The German language is well known to be one of the hardest languages to learn. It has a complicated grammar with a lot irregularities, sounds which do not exist in many other languages, and so on. One often overlooked aspect of the difficulty of learning German is remembering new vocabulary, which can be exceptionally hard as languages courses usually focus on purely Germanic words like ausschreiben, besuchen, etc., which actually are the hardest to learn for foreigners. However, as German is a Germanic language, it shares a common origin with English (as well as with other languages like Danish, Dutch, Swedish, Yiddish, etc.) and has plenty of words which are very similar to their English counterparts and are thus easy to learn for English speakers. Both German and English also contain a large number of loanwords from languages like French, Italian, Greek, Latin, etc.

In this article I will present you a list of 80 such words in order to make your studying of German a little bit easier. The words in the list are not organized in a particular order.

Here is the list:

1. rot - red

2. blau - blue

3. orange - orange

4. Silber - silver

5. Nummer - number

6. Qualität - quality

7. Quantität - quantity

8. Biologie - biology

9. Chemie - chemistry

10. Werk - work

11. Chance - chance

12. Vater - father

13. Sohn - son

14. Familie - family

15. Ciao - ciao, goodbye (it is very common in informal speech, even among people who do not know each other, but is rarely used in formal communication)

16. Kommunikation - communication

17. Ideologie - ideology

18. seriös - serious

19. Interesse - interest

20. Flag - flag

21. Kurs - course

22. Universität - university (it is used only for a certain type of universities and is not used for Hochschulen; I have an article axplaining the difference between the two)

23. Wunder - wonder

24. Fisch - fish

25. Shopping - shopping (Denglish (mixed Anglo-German) slang word taken directly from English)

26. Program - program

27. Physik - physics

28. Psychologie - psychology

29. Therapie - therapy

30. Psychotherapie - psychotherapy

31. Doktor - doctor

32. Information - information

33. Medizin - medicine

34. Tablet - tablet

35. braun - brown

36. Papier - paper

37. Dokument - document

38. Karte - card

39. Segment - segment

40. Politik - politics

41. Gruppe - group

42. E-Mail - email

43. Addresse - address

44. Komedie - comedy

45. Englisch - English

46. Russisch - Russian

47. Italienisch - Italian (do not forget that in this word the "e" is pronounced)

48. Spanisch - Spanish

49. Polnisch - Polish

50. Syrisch - Syrian

51. Arabisch - Arabic, Arabian, Arab

52. Bulgarisch - Bulgarian

53. Türkisch - Turkish

54. Norwegisch - Norwegian

55. Israelisch - Israeli

56. Irakisch - Iraqi

57. Iranisch - Iranian, Iranic

58. Ägyptisch - Egyptian

59. Amerikanisch - American

60. Kanadisch - Canadian

61. Musik - music

62. Radio - radio

63. Onkel - uncle

64. Neffe - nephew

65. Cousin and Cousine - cousine

66. Geologie - geology

67. Informatik - informatics

68. Anthropologie - anthropology

69. Lampe - lamp

70. Salat - salat

71. Curry - curry

72. Milch - milk

73. alt - old

74. neu - new

75. akzeptieren - to accept

76. kann - to can, to be able to

77. Praxis - practice

78. Schule - school

79. oft - often

80. gut - good

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