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. While planning for a lesson today I found this lovely old children’s cookery book, which I was once given together with a cooking set. I couldn’t remember how old I … Read more
When it comes to German grammar learning, I always get asked one big question: “How can I learn those prepositions?” The answer is always the same:”You just have to learn them.” The problem with prepositions is that they are not easy translatable. For example, in English we say ‘I’m on the bus’ which literally translated … Read more
EDIT: The Post-it notes have sadly been discontinued. Maybe you can still find some secondhand. 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. Last weekend I went to the Language Show to attend some seminars, meet other language teachers … Read more
I came across this lovely website the other day, the Beethoven Haus für Kinder . It is originally aimed at German children who want to find out more about Beethoven, but actually it’s just as good for adults. I’ve just spent an hour looking around and clicking on various items on the screen and reading interesting snippets. … Read more
I’ve just read in a German online magazine that Hans Riegel died today at the age of 90. You are probably wondering who he was. He was the oldest son of Hans Riegel of Bonn, Germany. If you look at the bold letters you can see the word HARIBO. Yes, his father invented those Haribo sweets. According … Read more
I used to do a lot of cross stitch but in the last few years had very little time. A while ago I thought to have a go again, especially as I was given a cross stitch kit. So I opened the pack and started. After a few hours I began to wonder … How … Read more
In autumn lots of people think they would like to do some evening classes, get fit again, join the gym or learn something new, maybe a new language, maybe German. So they look around to see what’s available and then find they can’t decide: What shall I do, keep fit or learn German? Why not … Read more
In one of this week’s lessons, I let my students listen to a story about two frogs in a milk jug (from a lovely book of fables which I bought in Vienna two years ago and which came with a CD). Today I found the text online so that you can have a read: … Read more
The Goethe-Institut has published a new free online resource for learning German, called Unsere Straße (Our street). EDIT 2026: It seems they have taken it down as the links now take you to a ‘page not found’ page. I’ll wait for a while before deleting this post just to see whether they have just moved the … Read more
I collected these lovely conkers yesterday and was wondering what to do with them. English children seem to be doing only one thing with them, and that’s playing conkers. I had never heard of this game until I moved to England. Instead we used to make things with them. All you need is a … Read more
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