Angelika Davey's Blog, page 13
May 1, 2023
Improve your German in May 2023
Welcome to another month of the German Action for Happiness Calendars. As before, you can if you wish also print out a PDF version. And if you want or need to, you can see it here in English, where you also find further foreign languages. Use the following sentences as a German reading and translation exercise and ... Read more
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April 23, 2023
Famous Germans – Bernhard Grzimek
Most of you have probably heard of David Attenborough and have watched some of his fantastic films about animal and plant life on Earth. But today I want to tell you about Bernhard Grzimek, with whose TV programmes I grew up. “Bernhard Klemens Maria Grzimek (24 April 1909 – 13 March 1987) was a German ... Read more
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April 16, 2023
German Idioms and Tongue Twisters with the letter R
Following on from last month’s blog post about German Idioms and Tongue Twisters with the letter Q, here are those with the letter R: Die Radieschen von unten betrachtenPushing up the daisies Reinen Wein einschenkento be straight with someoneRom wurde nicht an einem Tag erbaut.Rome wasn’t built in a day. Eine ruhige Kugel schiebento have ... Read more
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April 9, 2023
How to borrow German magazines in the UK
This article is for my UK readers, but I could imagine there might be similar systems in other countries. Please let me know if there is. As your German improves more and more you probably want to read more interesting things than a textbook. Sometimes you might be lucky and can buy a German book ... Read more
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April 2, 2023
Improve your German in April 2023
Welcome to another month of the German Action for Happiness Calendars. As before, you can if you wish also print out a PDF version. And if you want or need to, you can see it here in English, where you also find further foreign languages. Use the following sentences as a German reading and translation exercise and ... Read more
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March 20, 2023
German Idioms and Tongue Twisters with the letter Q
Following on from last month’s blog post about German Idioms and Tongue Twisters with the letter P, here are those with the letter Q: Er hat Quecksilber im Hintern.He has ants in his pants. Wer die Wahl hat, hat die Qual.Spoilt for choice. die Quengelwarethe pester power item querschieβento throw a spanner quietschfidel seinto be ... Read more
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March 12, 2023
Exploring the German verb GREIFEN and its variations
The verb greifen means to grab. It gets conjugated as follows: ich greife du greifst er/ sie/ es greift wir greifen ihr greift sie/ Sie greifen The perfect tense goes with ‘haben’ and the past participle is ‘gegriffen’, and in the imperfect tense it’s ‘ich griff’. But there are 10 prefixes which change the meaning, ... Read more
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March 5, 2023
German authors: Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff
“Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff (10 March 1788 – 26 November 1857) was a German poet, novelist, playwright, literary critic, translator, and anthologist.” This sentence is from Wikipedia, where you can read more about Eichendorff in English. But that wouldn’t help your German much, right? So I have searched and found a nice easy website with ... Read more
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February 27, 2023
Improve your German in March 2023
Welcome to another month of the German Action for Happiness Calendars. As before, you can if you wish also print out a PDF version. And if you want or need to, you can see it here in English. Use the following sentences as a German reading and translation exercise and then act on them. This month’s theme: ... Read more
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February 19, 2023
German composers – Georg Friedrich Händel
The composer Georg Friedrich Händel was born on the 23rd February 1685 in Halle, Germany. He died on the 14th April 1759 in London, England. You probably know him as George Frederick Handel. Although he was born in Germany, he became a British national after he moved to London and slightly changed his name. I won’t ... Read more
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