Advent Calendar Day 4 Day 4 of our Advent Calendar comes from George. Thank you, George! My name is George and I live in Southwick in Wiltshire with my German wife and my half German daughter. I met my wife nine years ago and at first I thought she was French. I can speak a very small … Read more
Advent Calendar Day 3 The post for day 3 has been written by Julia. Thank you, Julia! My name is Julia. I live in Devizes with my husband and 19 month old son. I spent five first years of my life in Germany because my father was stationed there in the army. When I started … Read more
Advent Calendar Day 2 Day 2 of our Advent Calendar has been written by Robert. Thank you, Robert! Warum lerne ich Deutsch? I started learning German in school many moons ago. The lessons only lasted a year. I nonetheless had a taste for the language. My wife speaks German fluently having lived in Germany when … Read more
Advent Calendar Day 1 Welcome to this year’s Advent Calendar. This year you will be treated by 24 wonderful guest blog posts from some of my students, therefore giving you 24 reasons for learning German. I hope you’ll enjoy them. The first post is from Alan. Thank you, Alan! Why am I learning German? As … Read more
Do you remember that song? “Video killed the radio star ………and you remember the jingles used to go ….’ But what does that have to do with learning German? We all know that the quickest way to learn German (or any other language) is to learn it in Germany (or the other countries, of course … Read more
This post contains affiliate links to Amazon. It means I might get a few pence if you buy anything – at no extra cost to you. Most English speakers struggle with the concept of different genders. In English everything is ‘the’ and all of a sudden it needs to be converted into ‘der, die, das’ … Read more
I’ve lost count on how many times I heard that question and the answer depends on so many different factors. How motivated are you? How much time do you have? Are you learning in Germany or in your own country? Have you learned a language before? The Goethe-Institut once produced a poster with the rough … Read more
I just had to share this with you! The Telegraph posted a very interesting slide show today about the 10 best languages to study. Guess which is the best one? I show you the no 1 slide: Yes, it’s German! “Germany remains the largest single export market for British goods outside of the … Read more
As I am a German teacher people will (quite rightly J) say that I am biased, but I have always said that for businesses German is a far more important language than other foreign languages. Yesterday I read about the compulsory language lessons planned for primary schools and I wasn’t surprised when I read: ‘The plans to be … Read more
I have just enjoyed some Diamond Jubilee celebrations in Devizes where I was asked by somebody what I made of all the fuss about Queen Elizabeth II and her jubilee. It wasn’t the first time. Last week I was asked whether I was glad that Germany didn’t have a monarchy and how I was going … Read more
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