Nevertheless, you’ll have covered the best part of the most frequent German grammatical patterns. You should be aiming for a vocabulary of about 2,400 words. With an active command of a lot of these words and patterns and a passive understanding of more of them, you can expect to be ab...
Goethe was born in Frankfurt (Main) but spent most of his life in the city of Weimar, where he was ennobled in 1782. He spoke many different languages and travelled great distances throughout his life. In the face of the quantity and quality of his oeuvre it is tough to compare him t...