Welcome to another month of the German Action for Happiness Calendars. As before, you can if you wish also print out a PDF version. And if you want or need to, you can see it here in English, where you also find further foreign languages. Use the following sentences as a German reading and translation exercise and then act … Read more
What is it like to learn German when you’re an absolute beginner? Learning German is like a walk in a park you’ve never visited before. You get a map and think ‘Wow, there’s a lot to see! Where do I start?’ (Photos taken on a visit to Tyntesfield, a National Trust property. But you have … Read more
Welcome to another month of the German Action for Happiness Calendars. As before, you can if you wish also print out a PDF version. And if you want or need to, you can see it here in English, where you also find further foreign languages. Use the following sentences as a German reading and translation exercise and … Read more
The other day I came across ‘six tips to get started at the gym’ and thought that these tips are actually just as relevant for German learners than for gym goers. Whether this is your first experience in the gym or in a German class, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed and a little intimidated. How … Read more
Welcome to another month of the German Action for Happiness Calendars. As before, you can if you wish also print out a PDF version. And if you want or need to, you can see it here in English, where you also find further foreign languages. Use the following sentences as a German reading and translation exercise and … Read more
When you want to write in German that something is bad, do you use schlimm or schlecht? I think I can hear your answer:”I checked my dictionary and both words mean bad, so I can use either, right?” Sadly no. There are differences. ‘Schlecht’ is something that can also be good. So, people, programmes, suggestions … Read more
Welcome to another month of the German Action for Happiness Calendars. As before, you can if you wish also print out a PDF version. And if you want or need to, you can see it here in English, where you also find further foreign languages (often a little late). Use the following sentences as a … Read more
This article is for my UK readers, but I could imagine there might be similar systems in other countries. Please let me know if there is. As your German improves more and more you probably want to read more interesting things than a textbook. Sometimes you might be lucky and can buy a German book … Read more
This page contains affiliate links to Amazon. It means I’ll get a few pence if you buy anything – at no extra cost to you. The verb greifen means to grab. It gets conjugated as follows: The perfect tense goes with ‘haben’ and the past participle is ‘gegriffen’, and in the imperfect tense it’s ‘ich … Read more
We’ve all been there, haven’t we? We’ve gone to bed and then couldn’t sleep. What to do? Well, next time you can’t sleep, you could watch this German Sesame Street video and see what Ernie did to try and get to sleep … Or you can read this blog post to find out more about … Read more
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