Have you ever driven on Germany’s motorways? Are you planning a first holiday in Germany and want to drive? Are you maybe a bit worried about driving on the motorway, the Autobahn? The people from insurance4carhire have made a lovely infographic with everything you need and maybe want to know before setting off. And now you can go … Read more
Today’s blog post is the Christmas story, read by me from the Luther Bible, Luke 2, verses 1 – 19, in German, of course! You can either just listen to me as I read the story, or you can click on the ‘subtitles/ close captions’ button and read the text as well. If you want … Read more
You’ve been learning German for a few years and you feel ready to watch the news in German. Where do you start? If you feel your German isn’t good enough to watch the news as they are shown on German TV, then try the news for Children. ZDF has daily news programmes lasting 10 minutes and … Read more
If you are a regular reader of my blog, you probably don’t need any reasons for learning German. But the lovely people of takelessons produced this great infographic, which I thought was worth sharing. Don’t you agree?
As a German learner you most likely have written a German text on your computer and find writing the extra characters ä, ö, ü and ß a bit of a hassle. You either need to use a virtual German keyboard, find the symbols on a word document and copy and paste or use number combinations for … Read more
Over the years I’ve had comments from students who went to Berlin. Each time they said how much they enjoyed their stay and isn’t it lovely there. Then they got my surprise answer: “I think so, but I haven’t been there.” “What? You haven’t been to Berlin???” It then dawned on me that lots of my … Read more
Are you interested in visiting UNESCO World Heritage sites? Would you like to visit some German sites? If yes, and you can, great – but what if, for whatever reason, you cannot get to Germany and visit these sites? How about visiting these sites without leaving your home? This is now possible via 360 … Read more
Last week I was sent this infographic about German cakes, made by the lovely people of swissôtel. I tried to write a blog post about it but only managed to drool over those cake pictures. As I can’t leave a ‘call to action’ and ask you, dear readers, to bake me one of those cakes, … Read more
Do you remember disc parking? A conversation in a Facebook group reminded me that I still had mine. In Devizes we had the disc parking scheme until 2003 and most people binned theirs afterwards, but I kept mine because it is still used in Germany and because mine is a German disc. The German disc … Read more
Whenever I teach a beginners’ class there is always the obligatory lesson on how to buy a train ticket. You know the ones, asking how much a ticket is and then buying it … But what do you do when you get to the station and there is no kiosk to buy your ticket, only … Read more
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