Improve your German in December 2023

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

German Idioms and Tongue Twisters with the letter Z

Following on from last month’s blog post about German Idioms and Tongue Twisters with the letter W, here are some more, this time with the letter Z. And that’s it, there are none with the letters X & Y, which means we have covered the whole A to Z. Wir sollten das nicht zwischen Tür und … Read more

10 ways to improve your German Learning

Feeling a bit stuck when it comes to learning German?Here are 10 ways to improve your learning: ☑️Don’t compare yourself to othersWe all learn differently and some of us may have had a language learning advantange. Don’t compare yourself to them, only compare yourself to yourself from yesterday or last week or last month etc… … Read more

German authors: Friedrich Schiller

“Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (10 November 1759 – 9 May 1805) was a German poet, playwright, historian, philosopher, and physician. Schiller is considered by most Germans to be Germany’s most important classical playwright.” (Quote Wikipedia) So I’ve searched the internet to see if I could find some information about Schiller in German for you … Read more

Improve your German in November 2023

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

German Idioms and Tongue Twisters with the letter W

Following on from last month’s blog post about German Idioms and Tongue Twisters with the letter V, here are some more, this time with the letter W: Wer nie sein Brot im Bette aß, weiß nicht, wie Krümel piken.One must experience something to understand it properly. Das ist weder Fisch noch Fleisch.That’s something half-baked. Wenn der … Read more

German authors: Günter Grass

“Günter Wilhelm Grass (16 October 1927 – 13 April 2015) was a German novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist, sculptor, and recipient of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature.” Quoted from Wikipedia or, if you’d like, you can read more about him on the German Wikipedia page. You have probably heard of his most famous … Read more

Improve your German in October 2023

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

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