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September 5, 2021
How often do you practise your German?
How often do you practise your German? Don’t worry, I’m not testing you, but I thought we might like to look at German adverbs of frequency. So here is a list, starting with the least frequent words first. nie – never niemals – never fast nie – almost never einmal – one time kaum – […]
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August 29, 2021
Improve your German in September 2021
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 […]
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August 22, 2021
Learn German vocabulary by topic: Obst & Gemüse – fruit & veg
Let’s learn some German vocabulary based on a topic. And this month’s topic is one of the fruit and veg boxes I receive every two weeks.You’ll get the vocab plus three different ways to practise/ remember the words: with an infographic, slides and a video. Of course, when it gets to food vocabulary, there are […]
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August 15, 2021
Beelinguapp – a review
This article has been sponsored by Beelinguapp – Learn languages with stories you love. The lovely people from Beelinguapp asked me if I’d like to try out their app and then tell you about it.A new app for German learners? Of course, I would! And I went exploring. First to their website to see what […]
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August 8, 2021
5 useless habits of would-be German learners
As somebody who has been teaching German for 30 years I have come across many habits, thoughts, ideas that would-be German learners have. Here are the five most useless habits of would-be German learners: They buy a ‘teach yourself’ type book! They buy an online course! They download an app! They plan to learn German […]
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August 2, 2021
Improve your German in August 2021
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 […]
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July 25, 2021
Bedeuten, meinen, vorhaben: what do these German verbs mean?
Do you know that feeling? You need to write something in German but you need to look up a word … and then don’t know which one to use! ‘To mean’ is one of those words. It can mean (☺) meinen, bedeuten and beabsichtigen/ vorhaben. Let me show you: Meinen Ich meine, du meinst, er/ […]
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July 18, 2021
Write more to improve your German
The following text is part of a chapter from my book The A to Z of Learning German: 26 ideas to make learning German more exciting and fun! You’ll retain sentences better once you have written them down. If you google phrases like ‘write things down to remember’ you’ll find lots of articles about why writing […]
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July 11, 2021
How to actually enjoy studying – an infographic for German learners
I came across this infographic via eLearning Infographics and although I hope you do enjoy learning German, there are times when you might struggle. This infographic comes with general tips for anybody who is learning on their own/ in their free time/ in addition to working and who needs some ideas to actually enjoy studying. […]
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July 4, 2021
How MIT can change German nouns & verbs
You most likely know that the German word ‘mit’ means with (and is followed by the dative). But did you also know, that if you add the three letters ‘mit’ to certain verbs, you’ll end up with a nice list of new verbs. The same happens if you add ‘Mit’ to certain nouns. The nouns […]
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