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March 20, 2016
Es tut mir leid, I didn’t mean to be rude!
I wrote this blog post in 2011 for another website, which sadly doesn’t exist anymore. The post is still just as relevant today as it was then, so I am posting it here again: „So you’re German? They are always so rude!“ I’ve heard this comment a few times now and for a long time it has been puzzling me. It’s not that I haven’t come across any [...]
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March 13, 2016
German is not boring!!!
German + boring??? Readers of my blog know that I would never put those two words together unless there is the third word, the word ‘NOT’! The lovely people of TranslateSharknoticed that as well and they agree with me. In fact, they agree so much, they made an infographic about it, which they then shared with me. Here it is. What do you think?
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March 6, 2016
Setzen, stellen oder legen – oh, I’ll just put it there!
A few years ago a student was talkingin German about items on atable. He said:”Ich putze das Buchauf den Tisch und ich putze den Kuli…” I was puzzled by the word ‘putzen’ as it means to dust or clean. Was he saying that he dusted the items? So I asked him and he was surprised because he thought ‘putzen’ was the German translation of ‘to put’. If only [...]
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February 28, 2016
Das Schaltjahr – a blog post for leap years!
This year is a leap year and as my blog post comes out on the 29th February, I thought it would be a good idea to tell you about das Schaltjahr asthe leap year is called in German. I googled ‘Schaltjahr’ and also ‘Schalttag’ to find out why the 29th February is called Schalttag in German. It took me a long time to find an explanation but I [...]
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February 21, 2016
7 ways to stay motivated when learning German
I have shown you an infographic about language learning fromeLearning Infographicsbefore. I get their newsletter and every so often an infographic pops up that applies just as much to learning German as it does to other things. This one, for example, “7 ways to stay motivated” doesn’t really matter whether you are supposed to practise your piano, for an exam or some German. In all those [...]
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February 15, 2016
What is the best way to learn German?
Have you heard or asked the following questions before? I often hear questions like – What’s the best textbook for learning German? What’s the best app to learn German? What’s the best way to learn German? Should I learn in a group or on my own? What’s the best website for learning German? What’s the best way for me to take notes/ learn vocab/ practise German? Well, [...]
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February 7, 2016
How to use Google Translate to help spell German words
When you start learning German in weekly lessons with a group or with a textbookon your own, at about chapter two or three you will come across the German alphabet. There are usually a few listening exercises and you get the chance to practise spelling your names or where you come from … and that’s it! A few weeks or months later, if you get asked to spell [...]
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January 31, 2016
Improve your German with the Augsburger Puppenkiste
Don’t you just love YouTube? You can spend hours researching certain topics and you can spend even more hours procrastinating! And every so often you come across a little gem and you have to write a blog post about it. Well, I do, anyway While doing some procrastinating I meanresearching, I came across some childhood films from the “Augsburger Puppenkiste”, a wonderful marionette theatre from Augsburg in [...]
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January 24, 2016
Hatschi! 10 German phrases to explain your cold
When you learn German, after a while youknowwhat to say when you are ill. As that topic still comes reasonably early in your learning journey, the sentences are normally straight forward, like Ich habe Kopfschmerzen (I have a headache) or Ich habe Halsschmerzen (I have a sore throat), just like I wrote in a blog post about illnesses before. Today I’d like to take those sentences [...]
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January 17, 2016
Practise your German using lists
Do you like making lists? Do you constantly scribble ‘to do’ items on pieces of papers? Have you thought about using lists to practise a little German at the same time?
How?
For example, you could write your next Einkaufsliste (shopping list) in German? Or next time, when you are writing your to-do list, write it inGerman. Even writing only some of the words is still practice.
What do you need to buy? Brot, Milch, Käse?
What do you need to do today? Einkaufen, putzen, kochen, Deutsch lernen?...
