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November 22, 2020
A short introduction to the usage of the comma in German
Have you ever asked yourself the following question?“When do I need to use a comma in German?” You might not because you think it’s the same as in English. And you wouldn’t be completely wrong. The comma in German is often used the same as in English … but not always. The following video is the first of 6 comma videos from my online course The [...]
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November 15, 2020
German composers: Paul Hindemith
Paul Hindemith (16 November 1895 – 28 December 1963) was a German composer, violist, violinist, teacher and conductor. He was born in Hanau near Frankfurt and died in Frankfurt. Despite a prolonged decline in his physical health, Hindemith composed almost until his death. Wikipedia has more information about him in English and German. The following link takes [...]
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November 8, 2020
Beibringen, lehren oder unterrichten? Let me teach you!
When you look up ‘to teach’ in a dictionary, you will find several translations: lehren, unterrichten, beibringen. How do you decide which verb to use? Generally speaking, they are interchangeable.I can say ‘Ich lehre Deutsch, ich unterrichte Deutsch, ich bringe Deutsch bei’But there are subtleties in the usage. LEHREN Lehren is a regular verb and is followed by the accusative.We tend to use lehren with teaching at university (as in [...]
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November 1, 2020
Boost your German learning in November
Welcome to the November edition 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 act on them. They are all designed to help [...]
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October 25, 2020
SS or ß? That’s another question!
Last week I told you when to write das or dass, and when you might still see daß: Das, dass or daß? That’s the question! Today’s post is a follow-up about when German words need the ‘ss’ or ‘ß’. Although ‘daß’ is now spelled ‘dass’, doesn’t mean that the ‘ß’ is obsolete. But the rules have changed. Before the spelling reform you would have seen (and [...]
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October 18, 2020
Das, dass or daß? That’s the question!
You’ve been learning German for a while now and then you see sentences with parts that look like this: Does it make you want to pull your hair out? Shall we make some sense of this? Okay, let look at the easiest one: daß The reason why I call it easy is that it’s obsolete. Since the German spelling reform in 1996, the word ‘daß’ needs to be written ‘dass’. [...]
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October 11, 2020
I like it, but how do I say that in German?
If you want to say that you like something in German, you have several choices. You can use ‘mögen’, verb + ‘gern(e)’, finden + ‘gut’ or ‘gefallen’. Mögen gets conjugated and used like a modal verb, except you should use is without a second verb. How do you conjugate it? ich magdu magster/ sie/ es magwir mögenihr mögtsie/ Sie mögen How do you use it? You use it with a [...]
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October 4, 2020
Oh je! How do I translate this tiny word?
“Je”, this tiny word of just two letters can give you lots of different meaning. Short for jeweils (every, each) or jemals (ever). Hast du je(mals) so ein leckeres Stück Kuchen gegessen? – Have you ever eaten such a nice piece of cake?Das war die schlimmste Zugfahrt, die ich je(mals) gemacht habe. – That was the worst train ride I ever had.Die Kinder bekamen je(weils) ein Eis für ihren Euro. [...]
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September 27, 2020
Boost your German in October
Welcome to the October edition 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 act on them. They are all designed to help [...]
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September 20, 2020
How to cook and learn German
When you start learning German it’s quite easy to find resources as there are lots of textbooks, apps and websites to help. But as your German improves it gets more tricky as there aren’t that many resources around. There is, however, another way to improve your German and that is to combine it with your hobby. Regular readers will have read posts with suggestions for train enthusiasts, chess players, music [...]
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