The Germans like to collect words of the year. There is the most used word of the year “Wort des Jahres”, the worst word “Unwort des Jahres” and since 2008 there is also the youth word of the year, “Jugendwort des Jahres”. Youngsters can submit their favourite word of the year and from mid year until the … Read more
Last week I came across an interesting blog post from EF English Live which is aimed at Germans learning English. It was about how much English they already speak as part of their German language. It was partially about ‘proper’ English, but most of the article was about ‘Denglisch’- English words which have been Germanised. Words … Read more
Last week I told you about my 5 top English versions of German hits. Today I’ll tell you about my 5 top German cover versions of English hits. Here they are, again in reversed order: No 5: Udo Lindenberg’s ‘Sonderzug nach Pankow’No 4: YTITTY with their German parody of ‘Somebody I used to know’ No … Read more
The other day we had a discussion in a lesson about German music and German hits, which gave me the idea to look for German songs that also were hits in English. And here they are, in reversed order! No 5: Nicole, Ein bisschen Friedenand in English: No 4: Nena. 99 Luftballons (This video keeps … Read more
The other day I was asked by a German friend if I still had a poem book and if I remembered the following verse: “Willst du glücklich sein im Leben, trage bei zu Anderer Glück Denn die Freude, die wir geben, kehrt ins eigne Herz zurück.” I said yes, and then went looking for mine. … Read more
It won’t be long until the A-level results are out and soon new sets of students will start their studies at universities and will accumulate huge debts thanks to the high tuition fees (currently up to £9000 per year in England). But if your A-levels included German, why not study in Germany or Austria? German … Read more
EDIT: Of course, this post is for any time, not just World Cups – as long as you’re a football fan ☺ For all those football fans who will be glued to the screen for the next few weeks but would also like to learn some German, here is some football info in German. The … 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
When it comes to classical composers, most people have heard of Johann Sebastian Bach, and as he was German and his birthday would have been today, I thought I write a little post about him. Johann Sebastian Bach was born on the 31st March 1685 in Eisenach, Germany. Actually, he was born on the 21st … Read more
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