Browsing Archive: April, 2011

How to make a traditional German Easter tree

Posted by Angelika Davey on Sunday, April 17, 2011, In : Celebrations in Germany

As promised yesterday, here is another idea with eggs for Easter. How about a lovely Easter tree?

You'll want to decorate the eggs as described yesterday except, this time you don't need hardboiled eggs. They need to be hollow. To get the egg white and yolk out of the eggs, keep them at room temperature first of all, as they will be hard to blow out if cold.
Hold the raw egg carefully over a bowl and very carefully make a hole at both ends of the egg with a big sewing needle, making sure to pu...

10 easy steps to decorate your own Easter eggs

Posted by Angelika Davey on Saturday, April 16, 2011, In : Celebrations in Germany

It's great fun hiding and finding those lovely big chocolate Easter eggs on Easter Sunday, but in Germany we have the tradition of decorating hard boiled eggs. When I was a child my dad used to hide loads of decorated hard boiled eggs and a few chocolate eggs in the garden which we children then had to find. One year we could not find one of the chocolate eggs - I wonder if it's still there ;-)

Anyway, if you fancy having a go at decorating your own eggs, here are 10 very simple steps:

Fill...

Das Fliegerlied Part 2

Posted by Angelika Davey on Wednesday, April 13, 2011, In : learn German

If you have been following my blog posts you will have noticed that I like using music and singing in my lessons, and one of my favourite songs is 'Das Fliegerlied'

Actually, I like it so much, I have plans with it: If you happen to be in Wiltshire on the 2nd of July and you would like to know more, send me an email

In the meantime, check out this page for the lyrics and instructions for the actions.

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Should I have a German translation of my website?

Posted by Angelika Davey on Tuesday, April 12, 2011, In : business German

Do I really need one?

Yes, no, maybe!

If you are selling your products or services to the English market, then you do not need to have your website translated. Anybody who does not speak English but comes across your website, can use google translate and if they really wanted your services, they’ll be in contact somehow.
Look at my website; my services are for English speakers, as I help with German tuition and translation, therefore my website is only in English. Any German speaker, who ...

New EU regulations concerning language learning!

Posted by Angelika Davey on Friday, April 1, 2011, In : a bit of fun

Following crisis talks last week about the lack of British translators who cannot translate into more than one language, the European Union decided that foreign language learning has to be made compulsory for all British nationals.

To make it as easy as possible, it has been agreed to start with just one language and with labelling items.
So from today, 1st April 2011, all vegetables growing on British allotments MUST be labelled in English AND German!

Allotmenteers who fail to comply will be p...

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