Dirty German: Everyday Slang from

Daniel Chaffey

Apr 2009 · Simon and Schuster

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Next time you’re traveling or just chattin’ in German with your friends, drop the textbook formality and bust out with expressions they never teach you in school, including:

•Cool slang
•Funny insults
•Explicit sex terms
•Raw swear words

Dirty German teaches the casual expressions heard every day on the streets of Germany:

•What's up?
Wie geht's?

•I'm smashed.
Ich bin total angeschickert.

•Fuckin' Munich fans.
Scheiß München Fans.

•That shit reeks.
Das riecht aber übel.

•I wanna shag ass.
Ich will abhauen.

•What a complete asshole.
Was für ein Arschloch.

•Dude, you're built like Arnold!
Mensch, du bist der Arnie!

About the author

Daniel Chaffey is a writer, scholar, educator and eternal student of all things German. For the last twelve years, he has lived and worked in Germany, where he perfected his high German skills and learned to converse like a German sailor as a student, Fulbright Teaching Associate, translator and bartender. He holds an MA in German Studies and a teaching credential from Cal State Long Beach. He currently teaches German in Northern California, where he continues to work on other projects, including a lexicon of soldier slang from the Second World War.