A few months ago I received a lovely email from Robertson B. Kunz with the request to review his book called ‘Comparative Grammar of German, Dutch, Afrikaans, Yiddish and Frisian’. My initial thought was “Why would I want to advertise a book that teaches German grammar when I teach German grammar myself?” My second thought … Read more
Could this be you? You’ve been thinking about learning German for ages now, but haven’t had the courage to join a class, buy a course, or follow an app because your thoughts got to: What if I’m rubbish at German?What if I make mistakes in German?What if my German pronunciation sounds naff?What if German turns … Read more
Welcome to another month – and year – 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. This month’s theme: Happier January – Glücklicher Januar … 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. 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. Today we’re talking about … 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
This might sound familiar to you: You want to say that you don’t do something, for example, you don’t travel by bus. You learn to use the word ‘nicht’: Ich fahre nicht mit dem Bus. Then you want to say that you don’t have a car and say ‘Ich habe nicht ein Auto’ and your … 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. 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. Today we’re talking about … Read more
When you check a dictionary to see what the German noun ‘Freude’ means, you’ll get several translations, like joy, delight, pleasure, happiness, enjoyment, … and more. But did you know that added to another noun, we can have 24 different types of ‘Freude’? Let’s have a look at them. As they all end in ‘Freude’, … Read more
Today’s post is a follow-up to indem oder in dem? and sowie oder so wie? Both covered words which Germans sometime struggle to spell correctly, as one or two words. This time we’re loooking at daraufhin and darauf hin, again words where even Germans aren’t always sure whether to spell them as one or two … 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
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