Angelika Davey 
Are you in the holiday (or vacation) mood? The German word for holiday is ‘Urlaub’, and just like there are lots of different ways to spend your holidays, there are just as many German words for it. And – you’ve guessed it – you can write the type of holiday plus the word ‘Urlaub’ as … 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 at an airport. This page contains affiliate links to Amazon. It means I’ll get a few pence … Read more
You have learned the German alphabet and are pretty good a spelling words, but how do you pronounce the letters when they are part of words (and not part of the alphabet)? My video (which is part from my online course The German ABC – a complete guide to German pronunciation explains in great details … Read more
Let me shower you with lots of ‘Blumen’ words. The German word for flower is ‘die Blume’ (plural ‘die Blumen’), so every word ending with ‘…blume’ is also feminine. Here are some flowers that, like some of the English words, end in flower: Other types of ‘Blumen’: Then there are many words beginning with ‘Blume’. … 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 talking about pregnancy or childbirth. This page contains affiliate links to Amazon. It means I’ll get … Read more
When it comes to learning German, do you do any of these? Hopefully, you don’t recognize all of those bad habits, but here are 7 suggestions how you could break those bad habits. You don’t have to do all 7 over 7 days, take your time, decide which habit you should tackle first and then … Read more
So, you’ve been learning German for quite some time. You’ve got to grips with verb conjugations in the present tense, worked out how to form a past tense sentence and you can predict the future! Maybe not😉, but whatever future tense sentence it may be, you can say it in German! And then you hear … Read more
After I moved to the UK in 1982 I sometimes saw these rows of books in people’s houses, the Encyclopedia Britannica. We had similar in Germany, but ours was called ‘der Brockhaus’. Photo credit: Florian Hirzinger The German encyclopedia is named after Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus, who was born in Dortmund on the 4th May 1772 … Read more
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