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May 25, 2025
Practical German for pregnancy & childbirth
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 when talking about pregnancy or childbirth. This page contains affiliate links to Amazon. It means I’ll get ... Read more
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May 18, 2025
The 7-day ‘Break Bad Habits’ challenge for German learners
When it comes to learning German, do you do any of these? Hopefully, you don’t recognize all of those bad habits, but here are 7 suggestions how you could break those bad habits. You don’t have to do all 7 over 7 days, take your time, decide which habit you should tackle first and then ... Read more
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May 11, 2025
An introduction to the passive voice in German
So, you’ve been learning German for quite some time. You’ve got to grips with verb conjugations in the present tense, worked out how to form a past tense sentence and you can predict the future! Maybe not😉, but whatever future tense sentence it may be, you can say it in German! And then you hear ... Read more
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May 4, 2025
Famous Germans – Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus
After I moved to the UK in 1982 I sometimes saw these rows of books in people’s houses, the Encyclopedia Britannica. We had similar in Germany, but ours was called ‘der Brockhaus’. Photo credit: Florian Hirzinger The German encyclopedia is named after Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus, who was born in Dortmund on the 4th May 1772 ... Read more
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May 1, 2025
Learn German and spread happiness in May 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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April 20, 2025
Practical German about twinning
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 about twinning. No, not about twins, but about the connection between town of different countires. This page contains affiliate links to Amazon. It means ... Read more
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April 13, 2025
Future-self planning for German learners
Future-self planning keeps you motivated and on track with German learning. Envision your future skills and make smart choices today to reach your goals. This approach not only helps you stay committed but also makes learning more rewarding. Let’s explore strategies to help you connect with your future self and build a solid plan for ... Read more
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April 6, 2025
Famous authors – Johannes Mario Simmel
Photo credit © Oliver Mark Today’s blog post is again about a famous author who wasn’t German but wrote in German. Johannes Mario Simmel was born on the 7th April 1924 in Vienna, Austria and died on the 1st January 2009 in Lucerne, Switzerland. As a student I read some of his novels, which, sadly, ... Read more
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March 30, 2025
Learn German and spread happiness in April 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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March 23, 2025
Practical German for diabetics
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 a diabetic might need! This page contains affiliate links to Amazon. It means I’ll get a few pence if you buy anything – at ... Read more
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