Angelika Davey's Blog, page 2
August 3, 2025
Liebling! The German word that loves to make new friends
If German words had a popularity contest, Liebling would be wearing a glittery crown and handing out hugs. It’s cute, it’s cosy, and it means “darling” or “favourite”. Mein Liebling! – My darling! My favourite! But Liebling doesn’t like to stay single for long. It loves making compound words! Whether you’re talking about your Lieblingslied ... Read more
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July 27, 2025
Learn German and spread happiness in August 2025
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 then ... Read more
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July 20, 2025
Practical German for train stations
Welcome to my next blog post based on our ‘Ask Angelika’ shows with practical or useful sentences you might hear or use yourself in certain scenarios. Today we will cover sentences you might hear or need to say at a train station. This page contains affiliate links to Amazon. It means I’ll get a few ... Read more
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July 13, 2025
Who or What? Understanding the nominative case in German
This is a very brief introduction to the German nominative case with definite articles. The video is a sample lesson from my online course German grammar – the four cases where you can find out much more. Every sentence, whether in English or in German, has at least a subject and a verb. For example ... Read more
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July 6, 2025
Compound nouns gone on holiday: German words with ‘Urlaub’
Are you in the holiday (or vacation) mood? The German word for holiday is ‘Urlaub’, and just like there are lots of different ways to spend your holidays, there are just as many German words for it. And – you’ve guessed it – you can write the type of holiday plus the word ‘Urlaub’ as ... Read more
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June 29, 2025
Learn German and spread happiness in July 2025
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 then ... Read more
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June 22, 2025
Practical German for airports
Welcome to my next blog post based on our ‘Ask Angelika’ shows with practical or useful sentences you might hear or use yourself in certain scenarios. Today we will cover sentences you might hear or need to say at an airport. This page contains affiliate links to Amazon. It means I’ll get a few pence ... Read more
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June 15, 2025
How to pronounce the vowels in German
You have learned the German alphabet and are pretty good a spelling words, but how do you pronounce the letters when they are part of words (and not part of the alphabet)? My video (which is part from my online course The German ABC – a complete guide to German pronunciation explains in great details ... Read more
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June 8, 2025
Stop and smell the Blumen – German flower nouns explored!
Let me shower you with lots of ‘Blumen’ words. The German word for flower is ‘die Blume’ (plural ‘die Blumen’), so every word ending with ‘…blume’ is also feminine. Here are some flowers that, like some of the English words, end in flower: Other types of ‘Blumen’: Then there are many words beginning with ‘Blume’. ... Read more
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June 1, 2025
Learn German and spread happiness in June 2025
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 then ... Read more
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