Gareth’s language learning journey – part 2

Did you read Friday’s blog post  ? It was a guest post by Gareth Evans of FlashSticks and it was so long, I turned it into two parts. If you haven’t read it yet, read it first before carrying on. So here is part 2: When things started to go wrong I have to be … Read more

Gareth’s language learning journey – part 1

The next two blog posts are guest posts, written by Gareth Evans, the Marketing guy over at FlashSticks; the fast and effective way to improve your foreign language vocabulary, instantly. And if you want to find out more about FlashSticks, they’re always up for a natter on Twitter too. Over to you, Gareth: My language learning … Read more

Revise your German with these free videos

Last week I came across a post on Google+ with a video about prepositions. I checked it out and found out that there wasn’t just one video but a whole range of videos and lessons. The page is Free German Lessons from Janine Wolf and the lessons consist of a PDF which you can download and … Read more

Frohe Ostern – Happy Easter

Are you looking forward to searching for your Easter eggs? You’ve already eaten them all? Or maybe you don’t like chocolate! (Really???) Then how about a different search for Easter eggs? The word search below contains 15 Easter words, all beginning with ‘Oster…’. Can you find them all? And more importantly, do you know what they … Read more

German videos for Easter

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

Das Verbarium – German verbs at your fingertips

EDIT 2024: it seems the new version has gone as well ???? EDIT 2019: It looks like they removed this version, as the links don’t work. They have made a new app, which has more information but is also dearer, currently £12.00 Das Verbarium+, German Grammar German verb conjugation can sometimes be a bit of … Read more

Improve your German with children’s books

EDIT 2022: Sadly, the website has gone. It looks like his books are for sale again, therefore he took the free site down. I leave this post as it might entice you to buy one of his books if you come across them. Whether you are learning German or would like to read to your … Read more

Help, I don’t know when to use mir or mich!

At some point when learning German you will come across pronouns, those little words that replace a noun.When they are the subject of the sentence, most people have no problem remembering them. But then you also come across mir or mich etc… and often I get asked “When do I use mir, dir etc… and when do I … Read more

How to use Spotify to learn German

Angelika's German Tuition and Translation - spotify

Do you listen to music on Spotify? If you don’t know what it is, Spotify is an online music station. You can listen for free or pay a subscription. If you listen for free you’ll get to hear some adverts every so often between the songs. If you go to https://www.spotify.com/ and register you can then either … Read more

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