Could you imagine that somebody would patent the word ‘hello’ and you couldn’t sell T-Shirts with it? This is currently happening in Austria with the words ‘griaß di’. Griaß di is a greeting similar to hello or hi. It is used in parts of Bavaria are and also in Austria. Now there were two … Read more
I just found this beautiful German love song – perfect for Valentine’s Day – so I thought, I’d share it with you. The song is in German and rather long, but apart from the German ‘Ich liebe dich’ you will hear it in 12 other languages. That’s “I love you” in: German English French Italian … Read more
I have just procrastinated spent valuable time searching Youtube for celebrities who speak German as a foreign language. Here are the 5 funniest and/or best clips: n Leonardo diCaprio who talks about his German grandmother m Keanu Reeves who can say a German idiom l Justin Bieber, who can count to ten 😉 kGeri Halliwell, who gives Victoria Beckham … Read more
Have I got your attention? Did you think, ‘Yay, no more those long, long German words’. Or was your first thought ‘Oh no, I like those lovely long words’. Fear not, they are not outnumbered, but they were on Outnumbered! I have written about German compound nouns before but when I watched Outnumbered on … Read more
As part of the 30 Day Blog Challenge, I asked Andreas Wiedow if he would like to write a post on my blog as a guest blogger, and he kindly agreed to write about just having a go in a foreign language and not to worry too much about mistakes.Thank you, Andreas! Teufels Küche in … Read more
Following crisis talks last week about the lack of British translators who cannot translate into more than one language, the European Union decided that foreign language learning has to be made compulsory for all British nationals. To make it as easy as possible, it has been agreed to start with just one language and with labelling items. So from today, 1st April … Read more
I came across a German text message abbreviation the other day that looked like an English word, so I searched the net and found a few, which either looked like an English word or like an English abbreviation. Here are 10 of them: BSE – bin so einsam – am so lonely DAD – denke an … Read more
I read an interesting article on the Deutsche Welle website this morning (if you want to read it – it is in English) Soon you will be able to see internet addresses with the letter ‘ß’ in it. Until now the only choice was ‘ss’. This reminded me of a question I get asked a … Read more
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