Body, health and medicine

What holds these lists together

Two things make this unavoidable rather than optional. A doctor’s appointment in German asks questions that need precise answers — where it hurts, since when, how it feels — and the words for that are not the ones a course teaches for describing a person. And German medical language keeps a Latin term and a German one side by side almost everywhere, so the same thing has two names and only one of them is on the form.

For example: der Körper (body), die Stirn (forehead), sich waschen (to wash), die Beschwerden (symptoms, complaints), die Klinik (clinic, hospital), das Fitnessstudio (gym)

Spread across the levels

The category runs across the levels — it is an area, not a difficulty. If you practise it, you can also choose a level at the top of the practice page and then get only the part that sits there.