Angelika Davey's Blog, page 38
July 22, 2018
German actors: Götz George
German actor Götz George was born on the 23rd July 1938 in Berlin and died on the 19th June 2016 in Hamburg. His acting career started off on stage and with small film roles until in 1981 he became Horst Schimanski in Tatort. Tatort is the longest-running German TV drama, showing feature-length episodes with different actors taken the roles as the chief inspector. The series is a [...]
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July 15, 2018
30+ German Abbreviations
When you’ve been learning German for a while, there comes a time when you decide to read some ‘real’ German books or articles and not just textbooks or stories designed for learners. That’s when you will also come across abbreviations. And just like many words they are not always recogniseable. As you can imagine there are thousands of abbreviations. Wikipedia has a page with lists [...]
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July 8, 2018
How to say the 12-hour clock in German
How would you answer if in Germany somebody asked you “Wie spät ist es?” (What’s the time, although lit. How late is it?) You could… Show them your watch or phone use the 24-hour clock or read this blog post and learn the 12-hour clock ☺ And now you have three choices to find out about the 12-hour clock in German, an infographic, a video or the slides [...]
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July 1, 2018
Practise your German with music
When I grew up in Germany it wasn’t ‘cool’ to listen to German music and we only listened to English singing bands or singers. There were always some German bands who, despite only singing in German, made it into the international market, like Rammstein or Tokio Hotel. But their music isn’t to everybody’s taste and I think Tokio Hotel now sing in English. Then came [...]
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June 24, 2018
18 quirky ideas to learn German in July
Are you always on the lookout for some quirky German learning ideas? How about 18 ideas for July? According to Kleiner Kalender (English version: Cute Calendar) each day of the month is also a special – and sometimes worth celebrating – day. I’ve picked 18 of those days to give you some fun ideas for practising your German – enjoy! 1 July International Joke [...]
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June 17, 2018
German football wins again :)
I’m not really interested in football, although I do watch some international games, especially if Germany plays England. One of my online students told me about his experience watching such a game in Germany and I asked him if I could use it as a blog post. He said yes, so with a big thank you it’s over to you, Stephen: Sport, and in particular football often imbues [...]
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June 10, 2018
Celebrate your German knowledge
Does this sound familiar? You’ve been learning German for a while now and you’re about to read a new text. You scan over it and spot several words you don’t know…. and you get annoyed with yourself! Surely you should know those words! Why don’t you know those words? Will you ever learn German properly? Oh, all this is so disheartening! Does this also sound familiar? You’re reading [...]
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June 3, 2018
Practise your German with church hymns and bible stories
Students often ask me what they can do to practise more German in addition to their textbook or course. I always tell them to think of their hobbies and find some German resources. For example, a football fan can find a German website of a football club, a music fan can follow a German singer’s music, etc… to find new vocabulary that is particularly interesting to them. It [...]
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May 27, 2018
18 quirky ideas to learn German in June
Are you always on the lookout for some quirky German learning ideas? How about 18 ideas for June? Subscribe to my YouTube Channel According to Kleiner Kalender (English version: Cute Calendar) each day of the month is also a special – and sometimes worth celebrating – day. I’ve picked 18 of those days to give you some fun ideas for practising your German [...]
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May 20, 2018
German painters: Albrecht Dürer
This plaque of Dürer’s praying hands (betende Hände) was my grandparents’ and as a child I was fascinated by those hands. When my grandparents died, my aunt took the plaque and said it should go to me as Albrecht Dürer’s initials were the same as mine: A D. For a long time I wanted to write a blog post about him and as I’m writing this post on [...]
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