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German spelling or Rechtschreibung (lit. “writing right”) is way easier than you’d think.

In this post, I’m going to show you just how easy by giving you a little bit of historical context on spelling rules in German, the most important ones you need to know and how to practice these rules and become a master of the German written word.

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General Spelling Rules in German

As we describe the rules below, we’ll keep using a bit more fancy linguistic notation. You’ll also be able to apply this knowledge in your own self-study going forward.

You’ll notice below that when we’re describing a written letter, we put it in angle brackets, as in <e>.

And when we’re describing a spoken sound, we put it in square brackets like this: [x].

Sometimes, these look the same as the written letters you already know, and other times they don’t. That&

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