A dose of German happiness for October 2026

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 then act on … Read more

40 German adjectives ending in -los you need to know

Continuing my posts about German adjectives, today’s post is about those that end in -los. If you want to check again, the last two adjective posts were 30 German adjectives ending in -reich you need to know and 20 German adjectives ending in -arm you need to know This time I found so many, I … Read more

A dose of German happiness for September 2026

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 then act on … Read more

20 German adjectives ending in -arm you need to know

If you are a regular reader of my blog you know that I often post about German compound nouns. Today’s post, however, is about German compound adjectives. Instead of putting two or more German nouns together we’re adding an adjective. Last week I wrote about the adjective ‘reich’ – rich: 30 German adjectives ending in … Read more

30 German adjectives ending in -reich you need to know

If you are a regular reader of my blog you know that I often post about German compound nouns. Today’s post, however, is about German compound adjectives. Instead of putting two or more German nouns together we’re adding an adjective. We’re starting with the adjective ‘reich’ – rich. It means that, no matter what the … Read more

A dose of German happiness for August 2026

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 then act on … Read more

Exploring the German verb MACHEN and its variations

The German verb machen means to do/ make/ create. It gets conjugated as follows: The perfect tense goes with ‘haben’ and the past participle is ‘gemacht’, and in the imperfect tense it’s ‘ich machte’. This page contains affiliate links to Amazon. It means I’ll get a few pence if you buy anything – at no … Read more

A dose of German happiness for July 2026

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 then act on … Read more

Birdwatching in German: 38 birds and their names

Last month we spent just over a week in Germany. We attended a wedding, spent some time in Dortmund where I studied many years ago and spent a few days in Schüttorf, my hometown. As always, when in Schüttorf, we walked through our favourite forest, the Bentheimer Wald to our favourite bench, the Baumelbank It … Read more

A dose of German happiness for June 2026

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 then act on … Read more

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