I have just procrastinated spent valuable time searching Youtube for celebrities who speak German as a foreign language.
Here are the 5 funniest and/or best clips:

 n Leonardo diCaprio who talks about his German grandmother
    

 


m   Keanu Reeves who can say a German idiom

  


l   Justin Bieber, who can count to ten ;-)


   

 k Geri Halliwell, who gives Victoria Beckham a crash course in German


   

 And finally, j Sandra Bullock, who accepts...
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That's not a quote from somebody famous, it's what my English teacher said to my mum 1975 when I changed schools. Up until then I had no interest in English or any other foreign language. 'I live in Germany, why do I need to speak another language' was my attitude. At that time I would have never imagined that one day I would live in England!

Now that I teach in England, I hear the same from youngsters here: 'I live in England, why should I learn to speak another language', but do they know wh...
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The above quote is from Willy Brandt, a former German Chancellor and I think about it every time I see a website which has been translated by a translating website!
Translating websites aren't a bad idea if you want to know something from a foreign website. Sometimes they translate well, sometimes they don't but hopefully they give you enough information to understand the gist of the text.

If, on the other hand, you want to sell abroad, then a translating website's help isn't good enough. A few...
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