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Whether you are studying for an exam, work, travel or simply for pleasure, if conversational German is your goal, we have the solution! Simply said, our free language course will help you learn German fast, fluently, and forever!

 

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Writing & Letter samples
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German uses most of the same punctuation marks as English, but 
there are some key differences:
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wurde ihm bewußt, daß der Preis des Sieges die absolute Einsamkeit war.
Um zu überleben, hatte er alles zerstört, was sich rings um ihn regte, und
nun trieb er wie ein Staubkorn ins Nichts hinab und würde ewig so
weitertreiben. Hans Bemmann

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Exclamation mark
An exclamation mark is used
after exclamations,  as in English, e.g.
Colons with direct speech
When speech is reported by means of
clauses such as
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Das, was wirklich ist, kann man mit Wörtern ohnehin immer nur
annähernd beschreiben; ein Wort ist eben nie genau die Sache
selber. Hans Bemmann

  
punctuation-german-learn Inverted commas/quotation mark
German places the first inverted commas or quotation
Commas with relative clauses
A comma must be placed at both the beginning 
Comma
Commas are determined by grammar in German, not by the

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