Angelika Davey 
Last week I received the weekly newsletter from Jono Hey from Sketchplanations, which was about animal collective nouns. In English we have a lovely variety of animal collective nouns, you most likely have heard quite a few of them. It made me wonder if they are just as funny in German. They are if you … 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 then … Read more
Welcome to my next blog post based on our ‘Ask Angelika’ shows with practical or useful sentences you might hear or use yourself in certain scenarios. Today we will cover sentences you might hear or need to say when cycling in Germany. This page contains affiliate links to Amazon. It means I’ll get a few … Read more
Today, we’re looking at the German verb ‘fangen‘ (to catch). It’s irregular and gets conjugated as follows: The perfect tense goes with ‘haben’ and the past participle is ‘gefangen’, and in the imperfect tense it’s ‘ich fing’. This page contains affiliate links to Amazon. It means I’ll get a few pence if you buy anything … Read more
While on holidays in Germany last month we spent a few days in Hamburg. There something caught my eyes (apart from the wonderful sights we explored): the bins! No, not the rubbish that people put in them, nor the stickers or graffiti that was on some of them. It was the different sayings I found … 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 then … Read more
Welcome to my next blog post based on our ‘Ask Angelika’ shows with practical or useful sentences you might hear or use yourself in certain scenarios. Today we will cover sentences you might hear or need to say in a taxi. This page contains affiliate links to Amazon. It means I’ll get a few pence … Read more
If you are a regular reader of my blog you will have read posts about verbs and how different prefixes change the meaning of the original verb. You might have read Today’s post is a little different as I have a list of verbs that change their meanings by adding the prefix ‘ver’. All those … Read more
It’s the start of a new school year and you are wondering whether you should buy some of my online courses to improve your German. Well, here are 10 methodologically questionable reasons to ignore my courses 😉 If I have just described you, then you know why you absolutely shouldn’t buy any of these German … 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 then … Read more
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