Practice 2

How to Say „How Are You?“ in German

“Na, wie geht’s? A simple question — which many Germans answer as if they were in therapy” 🥸

That’s how Charlotte Parnack playfully begins her article about the meaning of this small, seemingly unimportant phrase (👉 to the original article). In many languages, it is indeed nothing more than a casual “hello”, but in German, it’s taken a little more seriously.

Today, you’ll learn how to answer the question “Wie geht’s?” (“How is everything going?”) or in its full form “Wie geht es dir?” (“How is everything going for you?”) the way Germans do: being honest and authentic, but without sounding like you’re talking to your therapist 😉

Start by learning the most common German phrases to talk about how you’re doing here.

Then, test yourself with a quick vocabulary exercise here.

💡Visit our Discord forum #grammar-roots-and-faq to explore what small words like ach and na ja mean in everyday German.

📖 10 minutes later…

Now that you’ve learned different ways to respond to the question „Wie geht´s?“, let’s practice together 🙌