Sometimes, one language alone just doesn't have the right words to express your feelings. Denglisch and The Local are here to help tell that special someone just how you feel.
A quick and uncomplicated conversation between a recently engaged couple concluded that the husband-to-be would take on his fiancee's surname. However, no one was more surprised by people's reactions than Australian expat Liv Hambrett.
The Local has brought you lists of all shapes and sizes from Germany's richest people to Germans' pet peeves about Brits. Now we have brought them all together in our Local List archive.
The well-known 'cuddle hormone' oxytocin makes men in a relationship get a drug-like kick out of seeing their partner, German scientists say. It could be a major reason why people form exclusive partnerships, they suggest.
Six weeks ago The Local published a list of the top expat complaints to their German partners. In the interest of fairness we have turned the subject on its head in this week's Local List.
Are you a mouse, bear, or sparrow? - Germans have a penchant for the zoological when it comes to terms of endearment. For this week's Local List, we've put together the country's most common pet names, honeybunny.
Navigating the path of love in a foreign country is undeniably tricky, so this Valentine's Day The Local's team of inter-cultural dating experts has come up with ten top tips to help in dating a German.
A sniff of a "cuddle hormone" can encourage married men to literally keep their distance from other women, German scientists have shown - but paranoid wives should not put in orders for monogamy spray quite yet.
Germans are more romantic than their reputation for being cool and logical might suggest, with two thirds of those asked in a recent survey saying they believed in love that can last for life.
A woman in Bielefeld has been banned from all city police stations after she took revenge on the department for not returning her romantic interest, a spokesman said Thursday.
More than half of Germans believe in love at first sight – many of them through their own experience, a poll for the German edition of Reader’s Digest revealed on Thursday.
Not put off by the bad luck omens, 60 German singles gathered on Friday the 13th on platform 13 in Berlin's Potsdamer Platz station for a Valentine's Eve speed-dating party with a difference, AFP's Richard Carter reports.
German men are more romantic and say "I love you" more often than their female counterparts, according to a poll released by <i>Reader’s Digest</i> on Tuesday.
