Here it is, this year’s Advent calendar – one German Christmas carol / hymn per day: The first one is “Es kommt ein Schiff geladen”. This is not a Christmas Carol but a song for Advent. The hymn has been published by Daniel Sudermanns in 1626 and describes the pregnant Mary with a heavily laden … Read more
Last Christmas I gave you my heart ….. well, not really, but I did sent out a tweet on twitter every day as my Advent calendar. As of the 1st December I will post a daily blog entry about a different German Christmas Carol, one for every day until Christmas – my calorie-free Advent Calendar. In … Read more
About two years ago I posted an A to Z of long German compound nouns on twitter – one every day, the German words took up a lot of the 140 characters 🙂 For a while I had the whole list on my website, then moved it because I wanted something else. I even saved … Read more
On the 9th November 1989, the Berlin Wall came down. You may remember the pictures of that day and the news when it happened, and if you can’t remember it, google it and you’ll find lots of pictures of that day. But how much do you know about the wall and how it was built? … Read more
I have just procrastinated spent valuable time searching Youtube for celebrities who speak German as a foreign language. Here are the 5 funniest and/or best clips: n Leonardo diCaprio who talks about his German grandmother m Keanu Reeves who can say a German idiom l Justin Bieber, who can count to ten 😉 kGeri Halliwell, who gives Victoria Beckham … Read more
Last year I wrote about Halloween and how we didn’t celebrate it in Germany as, at the time, it was almost unheard of. And yet, the 31st October was a public holiday for us, not for all of Germany, but for the Protestants and areas where the population was largely protestant. The 31st October is Reformation … Read more
Last Sunday I went to The Language Show in London to see what new resources there are for learning and teaching German … and I noticed the arrival of smartphone apps. Unfortunately for me, they were for IPhones and IPads and not yet for Androids but if you have an IPhone you might like to buy them. The … 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. On the 18th October 1967, ‘The Jungle Book’ came to our cinemas. I wasn’t aware of this until I received an email about it yesterday. Immediately I was taken back in … Read more
Every day I get a variety of German newsletters in my email box and often they get deleted as there is nothing of interest to me. An article in one of today’s emails, however, caught my attention: Living underneath the motorway bridge If you like, read the original article here ‘Wohnen unter der Autobahnbrücke’. The … Read more
Have I got your attention? Did you think, ‘Yay, no more those long, long German words’. Or was your first thought ‘Oh no, I like those lovely long words’. Fear not, they are not outnumbered, but they were on Outnumbered! I have written about German compound nouns before but when I watched Outnumbered on … Read more
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