Angelika Davey This is a question I hear a lot from children when I teach at schools. But often adults don’t know either. They know how to spell words and how to pronounce things, but when asked what these words are they don’t know, which led me to understand that they would not understand grammar either. When … Read more
I have been teaching a new beginners German class tonight and at the end of the lesson one student came and told me a funny story.It was about a Battle of Britain celebration he went to a few years ago. The RAF base invited a few German and Italian pilots to the celebration but then … Read more
I came across this picture today and I was wondering if birds shout louder if they can’t be understood. This little fellow seems to be shouting at the top of his voice just like it is said about English people when they are abroad. As tourists we can’t learn every foreign language but if you … Read more
Thinking back to shortly after I moved to England, this was the time before satellite TV, although England just got Channel 4 and therefore had one more TV channel than Germany. Still, Saturday afternoons were awful. All you could watch was either Wrestling or Snooker or black & white war films (at least that’s what … Read more
The other day I read and commented on Cathy Dobson’s blog (The blog has sadly gone) about her first few (acually 20) years of living in Germany after having moved there from England. It brought back many memories of when I moved from Germany to England. I was lucky because I already spoke (if badly) English, … Read more
I have started a blog on a different webpage but The fun of being a German Teacher is supposed to be just that: a recount of funny incidents. I have since found that I’d like to write about other things, too, but still German related. So, welcome to my ramblings about things in Germany or England, … Read more
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