On Shift in German

The German phrasebook written by someone who's actually done your job.

Moving to Germany to work in care is hard enough without also trying to learn German from a textbook that assumes you have hours to spare and a professor's patience. On Shift in German skips the grammar entirely and gives you exactly what you need: real phrases, said the way people actually say them, for every situation a shift can throw at you.

From your first nervous "guten Morgen" to a 3am emergency call, from handover to end-of-life conversations, this book covers eighteen real workplace situations with pronunciation you can say out loud from page one.

What's inside:

• 18 chapters - from ward basics and handover to medication, emergencies, and paperwork
• Hundreds of real phrases with plain-English pronunciation, no phonetic alphabet required
• A panic sheet and false-friends list for your very first shift
• Blank pages to build your own facility's vocabulary
• A full index and useful-contacts page to fill in

Written by a British care worker who moved to Germany over twenty years ago and still remembers exactly what the first shift felt like.