Browsing Archive: August, 2011

My First Day at School

Posted by Angelika Davey on Tuesday, August 30, 2011, In : Life in Germany

Mein erster Schultag

This is a picture of me on my first day at school with my brand new school bag (Schultasche) and my 'Schultüte' (roughly translated as school cone). My school bag had my first lot of exercise books, text books and a pencil case, but what was in the school cone?

All German children get a school cone on their first ever day at school. It is designed to make their start into school life a bit sweeter and inside they will find sweets and usually one or more toys (depending ...

Long German Words

Posted by Angelika Davey on Tuesday, August 16, 2011, In : a bit of fun

I have just got back from a cruise on the river Danube (die Donau) and although our lovely ship wasn't a steam boat, it did remind me of the famous long German word Donaudampfschifffahrtsgesellschaftskapitän" - the captain of the Danube steam ship company!
Compound words which in English stay as individual words (example birthday card) are usually written as one word in German (so the birthday card is 'die Geburtstagskarte').

Of course, the longer the word is, the harder it is to read, so ev...

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