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50 ways to learn your German

By Angelika Davey On May 20, 2013 · 6 Comments
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Send to Kindle Last week I read a wonderful blog post from Suzan St Maur, called  ’50 ways to win at blogging’ (while you’re on her blog, have a look at  her great books about writing!) I automatically thought : Everything she can do I can do better …. or at least just as well So here it is! If Paul Simon had had German lessons when he [...]
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Improve your German with 10 useful German Magazines

By Angelika Davey On May 15, 2013 · 3 Comments
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Send to Kindle   Once my students have acquired a basic  knowledge of German they often ask me what other text (rather than just their textbooks) they could read. One answer is: German newspapers or magazines! Most newspapers nowadays have a website with lots of news and other topical information. Some have newsletters you can subscribe to and some even have apps for your smartphone. There are so many [...]
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Improve your German with German TV

On April 17, 2013 By Angelika Davey
Send to Kindle   A while ago I wrote how listening to German radio stations can help with learning German, and then the blog post Learn German with Children’s TV Programmes  for people who have started learning German. Today I’d like to give some suggestions for those who already understand enough to watch a bit more advanced TV. Just like the BBC iPlayer, German TV stations [...]
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Das doofe Fischlied – a silly song?

On March 11, 2013 By Angelika Davey
Send to Kindle Do you know that feeling? You listen to a song on the radio. You find it absolutely terrible ….  and yet, you can’t get the tune out of your head for the rest of the day!!! Yes? Well, this happened to me this morning. Somebody posted a video in a facebook group, I listened to it and even 10 hours later, I can still hear the [...]
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Stoiber on Drums

Stoiber on Drums – a German Speech set to Music

On February 13, 2013 By Angelika Davey
Send to Kindle   Once upon a time there was a speech, held by the then minister president for Bavaria, Edmund Stoiber. His speech made not a lot of sense to the Germans, which made it famous – sort of. There are many videos on Youtube about it but I found one where somebody made a pretty good attempt of an English translation: (If – despite the [...]
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Happy Birthday German Saturday School Frome

On February 3, 2013 By Angelika Davey
Send to Kindle On the 19th January the German Saturday School Frome celebrated its 5th birthday, or, at least, it should have done. Unfortunately, that day the college was closed due to all the snow. So, yesterday – slightly belated – we thought we show you what sort of things we do on a Saturday morning. Ellie, Kristina and Erika, the youngest ones, are learning about feelings [...]
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Learn German with Children’s TV Programmes

On January 21, 2013 By Angelika Davey
Send to Kindle   How is your German learning coming along? Good?! I’m glad to hear it! You are having your lessons, you’re enjoying them and would like some extra work, just not boring homework. I don’t blame you, homework is not always the most interesting thing to do (although sometimes it is). So, how about some German children’s TV? If you are lucky and have German satellite TV [...]
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Teach Yourself German … with a little help!

On January 9, 2013 By Angelika Davey
Send to Kindle Does this sound familiar? You’ve decided you want to learn German and then you can’t find a group to join and you can’t afford one-to-one lessons. So you think “I can do this by myself!” You go and buy a text book and look at it twice: once when you’ve bought it ………… and the second time when you put it in the attic/ take it [...]
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Dinner for One

Same procedure as last year? You bet!

On December 29, 2012 By Angelika Davey
Send to Kindle My students all know by now that in the last lessons before Christmas I go on and on about ‘Dinner for One’! Why? Because it’s a German New Year’s tradition. It started in 1963 when a German TV station recorded a short English theatre  performance in Hamburg. They only gave a short German introduction and then showed the play in English. Played by comedians Freddie Frinton [...]
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Frohe Weihnachten!

24 Reasons for Learning German – a Good Teacher

On December 24, 2012 By Angelika Davey
Send to Kindle Advent Calendar Day 24 I hope you have enjoyed our 24 reasons for learning German. I’m giving the last words to some of the girls at the German Saturday School who wrote their text in German and didn’t want to be named – once you’ve read the last two, you’ll know why I’ve copied their texts in German (minus spelling mistakes) and if you [...]
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