Many years ago a friend gave me this little jar with chocolate drink as a present. The powder is not designed to be used for a drink. Instead, the jar contains ‘Kakao, durch den Sie andere ziehen können’ – ‘cocoa, through which you can pull others’. That translation, of course, doesn’t make any sense, because … Read more
As I drove home from teaching yesterday I realised with horror that I hadn’t written a blog post for over two weeks. Still thinking what to write I arrived home to see that the postman left a little parcel. I hadn’t ordered anything lately, so what was it? I opened it and found a Nutella … Read more
Are you looking forward to searching for your Easter eggs? You’ve already eaten them all? Or maybe you don’t like chocolate! (Really???) Then how about a different search for Easter eggs? The word search below contains 15 Easter words, all beginning with ‘Oster…’. Can you find them all? And more importantly, do you know what they … Read more
I was looking for something on YouTube today and a few hours later I’ve got nice German videos for Easter, but not what I was looking for in the first place 😀 Sounds familiar, doesn’t it? Anyway, if you’d like to waste spend some time watching, listening, singing, here they are: Please don’t blame me … Read more
April Fool’s Day is celebrated (if that’s what we can call it) every year on the 1st April, not just here but in many countries, including Germany. April fool jokes are called Aprilscherze (der Aprilscherz, if it’s just one) Jemanden in den April schicken means to play an April Fool’s trick on somebody (literally to send somebody into … Read more
On Wednesday, the 19th March 2014, 12 students and friends of Angelika’s German Tuition & Translation enjoyed the first German skittle evening in aid of charity. Apart from learning a bit about the German names of the pins and counting our scores in German we had great fun and managed to raise £73.73 in aid … Read more
It’s raining again! Whether it’s raining where you are or not, we all like to talk (or should I say ‘moan’) about the weather. So, what better time than a rainy day to look at some compound words 😮 Although the word rain is ‘der Regen’, compound words which begin with ‘Regen’ aren’t necessarily ‘der’ … Read more
When my children were little I knew all about the cartoons they used to watch, but now I feel ‘out of the system’. So whenever I’ve seen children with ‘Peppa Pig’ lunchboxes, clothing, etc … I didn’t know what the attraction was …. until …. I happen to watch a programme. Within minutes, Peppa Pig’s … Read more
Who hasn’t heard of Grimm’s fairy tales? I bet, everybody has! One of the Grimm brothers, Jakob, was born on the 4th January 1785, so I thought today would be a good day to show you where you can find out more about the fairy tales. Wikipedia is always a good starting point. Grimm’s Fairy … Read more
Having been away for a few days I only just got the chance to read the Christmas edition of the German magazine Stern when the above advert caught my eye. It was advertising the Christmas Day film ‘Der gestiefelte Kater’ (Puss in Boots) with the sentence ‘Haben Sie Weihnachten auch ‘nen (that’s short for ‘einen’) Kater? … Read more
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