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December 24, 2017
Five German Christmas Poems
Today is Heiligabend, Christmas Eve, the day when the Germans open their Christmas presents. Traditionally, before the Bescherung, the giving of the presents, children would sing or play a song or recite a poem. And I’m pleased to hear that in many families that tradition continues. So I here are five of the most popular poems, which to this day still get read or recited in Germany:
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December 17, 2017
The seasons in German – Winter
The 21st December is the official first day of winter , so this blog post is about winter with German words and videos. Let’s start with some Winter… words: der Winteranfang – beginning of winter die Winterdepression – winter depression/ blues winterfest – winterproof/ hardy der Wintergarten – conservatory das Wintergrün – wintergreen (plants) das Winterhalbjahr – winter half year die Wintermode – winter fashion der Wintermonat – [...]
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December 10, 2017
Language study habits – an infographic
This infographic arrived in my inbox a few days ago and I found it interesting to see how self learner study their languages. The infographic is from a school that teaches Japanese but I think if I or others did this survey we would most likely get similar results (Except for the crocodiles ☺) Find more Angelika's German Tuition & Translation.
December 3, 2017
4 December 1875 – birthday of Rainer Maria Rilke
Rainer Maria Rilke (full name René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke) was born on the 4th December 1875 in Prague, Bohemia, at the time part of the Austrian Empire. He was a poet and novelist who wrote in German and also French and whose literature has been translated into several languages. He died on the 29th December 1926 in Montreux, Switzerland after getting ill with leukaemia. The [...]
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November 26, 2017
German for chess players
Are you a chess player? Have you ever thought what those pieces are called in German? Here they are: Apart from the king, the other pieces are not a literal translation. der König – king die Dame – queen (lit. the dame) der Turm – rook (lit. tower) der Läufer – bishop (lit. runner) der Springer – knight (lit. jumper) der Bauer – pawn (lit. farmer) Of [...]
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November 19, 2017
How to find a pen friend to improve your German
Today’s blog post is not for those who like practising their German with online activities or games but for those who like the old fashioned pen and paper. Yes, we’re talking about pen friends, or Brieffreunde, as they are called in Germany. The idea came when fellow German tutor Mark Bamforth asked me if I had ever written a blog post about finding German pen friends [...]
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November 12, 2017
What type of learner are you? An Infographic
As adult learners we sometimes find it hard to keep up with a group of other learners because we want to learn different things or in a different way. That’s why I love the opportunities we have nowadays for teaching ourselves online with all those different resources. Although it takes time to find what suits us, we can then chose the right method of learning. But how do [...]
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November 5, 2017
Wir suchen Deutschland – then and now
If you’ve been following my series of pages from an old children’s book, you would have seen that – according to the 1948 book – it was quite an adventure to travel through Germany. To remind you again, the book covered in poem form a fictitious journey of two small children, Peter and Sabine, who went to the following places: Erzgebirge & Dresden
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October 29, 2017
Wir suchen Deutschland – Rügen and Berlin
Last month Peter and Sabine visited Oldenburg and Hamburg, this month they’re off to explore Rügen and finally Berlin. Rügen Wir sind auf Rügen jetzt, in Deutschlands Norden. Spätsommer ist es schon geworden. – Ein kühles Bad an steiler Küste, fürwahr, nichts Besseres ich wüßte! Doch Peter, sag, wie lange bleiben wir noch aus! Ich habe Sehnsucht jetzt nach Haus. – Sabinchen, einen Tag noch, eine [...]
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October 22, 2017
10 Martin Luther quotes in German and English
This month Germany is celebrating the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther’s reformation. Reformation Day is on the 31st October, the day, when in 1517 Luther nailed 95 theses onto the door of the castle church in Wittenberg. If you want to read them, they can be found here in German and here in English, but in this post I want to give you 10 [...]
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