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Learn German for 365 days – a challenge

Last year lots of you completed a 30 day challenge of learning German. This year I’d like to invite you to a 365 day challenge! I am challenging you to learn some German for at least 5 minutes every day this year. If you can spend more than 5 minutes a day, that’s perfect, but if you only have 5 minutes, then that’s okay too. Use any [...]

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German dialects – a game

During the last ninemonths I wrote blog posts about 9 different German dialects. I hope you enjoyed them, because now it’s your turn. I found this wonderful German, Austrian and Swiss dialect card on Expedia.dewhich I was allowed to embed on my blog and which lets you play with some dialects. Click on ‘Entdecken’ and you can then click on various points to hear a German [...]

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German dialects – Bayerisch

Today’s post is the third and last one about Upper German andwe will learn how to speak Bavarian No, that would be an impossible task, but if you have never heard people speak Bavarian or would like to know more about Bayerisch, or Bayrisch, as it’s also often spelled, then stay here and watch some of the videos I found for you. And a famous story about [...]

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Practise your German with Lingohut

Lingohut is a wonderful and totally free (apart from a few adverts, but they ensure the exercises are free) website for language learners. At the moment they offer 11 languages, including German, but I know they are looking to add more. AND you don’t need to be an English speaker to learn a language. So if you want to learn German, your first choice is about [...]

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25 ways to help you learn German

I found this infographic and have to admit that my main reasonfor this blog post is so that I can keep it myself. This is a fantastic list of suggestions for language learning. Find more education infographics on e-Learning Infographics How can I help you with some of these tips? Tip20: Eat more [...]

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German dialects – Fränkisch

In our 8th blog postof German dialects and second part of Upper German we look at the Franconian language – Fränkisch. Wikipedia says:”Franconia (German: Franken, also called Frankenland) is a region in Germany, characterised by its culture and language, and may be roughly associated with the areas in which the East Franconian dialect group, locally referred to as fränkisch, is spoken. It commonly refers to the eastern part [...]

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Word Up – a great way to practise some German

About two months ago I told you about the new app from FlashSticksand only a short while later they’ve come up with something else – a free smartphone app (Android and iPhone) called Word Up When they told me about it they warned me “Word Up challenges your brain to recall and spell thousands of new words. It’s highly addictive too!” As you know [...]

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Practise your German with help from your local library

Have you ever had the feeling that somebody gave you a secret tip which actually wasn’t a secret? That’s how I felt the other day when I received an email which started with “You probably already know this, but in case you don’t …”. Well, I didn’t! And it isn’t a secret anyway, but in case you don’t know this, let me share it with you. Did you [...]

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German dialects – Schwäbisch

After having looked at three lower German and three middle German dialects, we come to the upper German dialects. And we start with Swabian, or Schwäbisch, as it’s called in German.Wikipedia says that ‘it is spoken in Swabia, which covers much of the southwestern German state of Baden-Württemberg, including its capital, Stuttgart. It is also spoken in the rural area known as the Swabian Alb, and in the [...]

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8 reasons why you should learn a second language

I came across another great infographic with the option to embed it into my blog. It’s a post from Overpass(came via elearning infographics) and covers languages in general, but I’d like to add the German angle to it (below the infographic), as that’s the one I want you to be most interested in [...]

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