Angelika Davey's Blog, page 54
June 14, 2015
Visit 5 German World Heritage sites from your sofa
Cologne Cathedral Katie Davey
Are you interested in visiting UNESCO World Heritage sites? Would you like to visit some German sites? If yes, and you can, great – but what if, for whatever reason, you cannot get to Germany and visit these sites?
How about visiting these sites without leaving your home?
This is now possible via 360 degree panoramic photography, you can sit on your sofa and have a look around, almost as if you were there.
Der Kölner Dom – Cologne Cathedral
Play around, by zoom...
June 7, 2015
Let’s get Kuchen!
Last week Iwas sent this infographic about German cakes, made by the lovely people of swissôtel. I tried to write a blog post about it but only managed to drool over those cake pictures.
As I can’t leave a ‘call to action’ and ask you, dear readers, to bake me one of those cakes, I just leave you with the pictures to drool over yourselves. Enjoy!
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May 31, 2015
Sit on a throne and learn some German!
I know this isn’t really a throne. It’s a chair in the meeting room which I hire for my Wednesday German class. The rest of the furniture are normal tables and chairs apart from this one chair, which, right from the start, had been dubbed the teacher’s throne. And that’s what it is: MY teacher’s throne … and none of my students would dare sit on it 
But, as it looks a little bit like a throne, here are some words/ phrases which you might come across when reading German novels about kings an...
May 24, 2015
Great tips from the Creative Language Learning Podcast
Last month I have been interviewed by fellow native German speaker and teacher Kerstin Hammes at Fluent Language.If you like languages and listening to podcasts about learning languages I wouldrecommend you have a listen to her great “Creative Language Learning Podcast”, well one in particular
For the interview with me you only need to click on the link below, but if it has whet your appetite for more, check out her “Creative Language Learning Podcast”and listen to some more of her greatin...
May 17, 2015
Ich bin krank – useful German phrases in case of illness
When you go on holidays, the last thing you want to happen is an illness, but unfortunately these things do happen. So, to help you along a little bit, here is a blog post with the German namesfor someparts of the body and some sentences in case you’re ill:
First a few body parts, sorted according to gender:
Der Kopf – head
Der Mund – mouth
Der Bauch – stomach
Der Fuß – foot
Der Finger – finger
Der Hals – neck, can also mean throat
Der Rücken – back
Der Arm – arm
Der Zahn – tooth
Die Nase –...
May 10, 2015
Teach your child German with this smartphone app
Do you have small children who would benefit from learning some basic German? Would you like to learn some German together with your child?
If you have an smartphone you may want to check out ‘Lernkarten – Lernspiele für Kinder, Deutsch’ (android link) (iPhone link). It’s a lovely app with easy (well, most of them ) words to learn.
If you want to use all topics you will need to pay 3.99 Euro, which worked out to 2.51 when I bought it. Not bad for hours of fun and learning German.
May 3, 2015
German idiom – nicht alle Tassen im Schrank haben
We all love to use idioms, and if we can use some in a foreign language, even better.
So here is another German idioms: er hat nicht alle Tassen im Schrank.
German idiom nicht alle Tassen im Schrank haben from Angelika Davey
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April 26, 2015
Who are you, dear reader?
Today’s post is a request to you:
I’d love to know who you are, where you from and why you read my posts.
Please complete this questionnaire, it’s completely anonymous (although, if you wish, you can add any further comments at the bottom of the post, which will not be anonymous)
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Thank you – danke!
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April 19, 2015
Are you a lover of football and German? This is for you!
Last week something funny happened. There was a press conference about Jürgen Klopp, the manager of Borussia Dortmund, who was about to announce that he was leaving the club. That’s not the funny bit!
Ben Bloom, the Telegraph sports commentator had the taskto comment live as the conference was broadcast. You can read the whole article here, but I will quote some of the funniest ( for me, anyway) comments:
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Right we have a slight issue… they are speaking in German and my GCSE in the subj...
April 12, 2015
10 famous film quotes in German
You probably know some famous film quotes and maybe even like using them in conversation. But what about those quotes in German?
Here are 10 of them.Do you know the original sentences?
“Ich bin Spartacus!”
“Ich seh dir in die Augen, Kleines!”
“Na los doch, make my day!”
“Ich komme wieder”
“Guten Morgen … und falls wir uns nicht mehrsehen, guten Tag, guten Abend und gute Nacht!”
“Auftragen, rechte Hand. Polieren, linke Hand. Auftragen, polieren. Einatmen durch Nase, ausatmen durch Mund....
