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. This is another one of those infographics I get via eLearning Infographics. It is aimed at full-time students in general, but is just as valuable for those who learn German … 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
This post contains affiliate links to Amazon. It means I’ll get a few pence if you buy anything – at no extra cost to you. How do you practise your German when you’re no longer a beginner? One way is to incorporate the new language into regular tasks. And even better, combine your love of … Read more
Following on from last month’s blog post about German Idioms and Tongue Twisters with the letter C, here are those with the letter D: Dumm gelaufen!Hard luck! So um den Dreh / Pi mal Daumenroughly, approximately Dienst ist Dienst und Schnaps ist Schnaps!You shouldn’t mix business with pleasure! Ich drücke dir die Daumen.I’m keeping my … Read more
Last month I wrote a post about the different ways to say ‘stop’ and one of them was ‘aufhören’. This got me thinking about the verb ‘hören’ and how prefixes can or might change the meaning of the verb. Here is the verb HÖREN plus 20 more with prefixes: Quite a list, isn’t it? And … 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
This post contains affiliate links to Amazon. It means I’ll get a few pence if you buy anything – at no extra cost to you. How do you practise your German when you’re no longer a beginner? One way is to incorporate the new language into daily tasks. And even better, combine your love of … Read more
A while ago I read somewhere (sadly I can’t remember where) a question about the verb ‘to stop’ and how to translate it into German. I thought, ‘what a weird question, just look it up in a dictionary’. And then today I looked it up myself and I can now understand why it might be … Read more
Following on from last month’s blog post about German Idioms and Tongue Twisters with the letter B, here are those with the letter C: der Casus Knacksusthe crunch/decisive factor Einen Gang nach Canossa machenTo eat humble pie Die Chemie stimmt!The chemistry is right! Nicht alle auf dem Christbaum habenBe out of your mind Now it’s your turn to try … Read more
“Konrad Alexander Friedrich Duden (3 January 1829 – 1 August 1911) was a Gymnasium (high school) teacher who became a philologist. He founded the well-known German language dictionary bearing his name Duden.” (Source Wikipedia) I was surprised to see how short the English Wikipedia article about Konrad Duden was. I wanted to know what made … Read more
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