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
Following on from last month’s blog post about German Idioms and Tongue Twisters with the letter J, here are those with the letter K: die Kirche im Dorf lassento not get carried away einen Kater habento have a hangover den Kürzeren ziehento draw the short straw einen Kloß im Hals habento have a lump in … Read more
Whenever I go home to Germany I always go to the cemetery where my dad and grandmother are buried. The last time I took some pictures about things you’ll find or might find in a German cemetery. Alte Grabstätten. Old burial plots Grabstätten. Burial plots, usually for several family members. Ein frisches Grab. A fresh … Read more
Look! Did you see that? As an English speaker you wouldn’t think twice about when to use ‘to look’ or ‘to see’. You just know. But when it comes to learning German, do you use schauen or sehen? Or even kucken or gucken or kieken? First of all, sehen is used when you talk about … Read more
I can’t paint! My drawings have never gone past the matchstick men stage. So I do what I do better, I take pictures, especially landscape pictures. I love taking photos of the glorous countryside in Wiltshire and, of course, I love paintings that look like photos. And this leads me to today’s post about Caspar … 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
Following on from last month’s blog post about German Idioms and Tongue Twisters with the letter I, here are those with the letter J: Sei nicht so ein Jammerlappen!Don’t be such a whiner/ sissy! Das ist Jacke wie Hose.That’s six of one and half a dozen of another. Jetzt mach mal halblang!Come off it!/ Hang on … Read more
How good is your German pronunciation? If you saw an unknown German word, would you be able to pronounce it even if you didn’t know what it meant? Fancy trying it out with the names of some dinosaurs? Have a look at the following names, try to pronounce them in German and then watch the … Read more
Whenever my students get asked a question, I usually encourage them to answer in a whole sentence. It helps with formulating sentences, especially when you want to inform somebody without being asked. As an easy example, an answer to the question “Woher kommen Sie?” could be “Ich komme aus England”. If you had that question … 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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