The 20th March is the official first day of spring, so this blog post is about spring with lots of words and phrases. There are three words in German for spring: der Frühling (this is the official word for the season spring) der Frühlingsanfang – beginning of spring die Frühlingsgefühle – spring fever die Frühlingszwiebel – … Read more
As mentioned last month, today we will continue with Peter and Sabinchen’s journey through Germany, as they travel to Meissen and Leipzig. MEISSEN Heut fahr’n wir auf dem großen Stromnach Meißen, das hat Burg und Dom.Am Elbeufer, stolz und schön,ist schon die Albrechtsburg zu sehn.Markgrafen haben sie erbaut,von hier man weit ins Land hin schaut.In … Read more
Last week I told you about this book I have “Wir suchen Deutschland” from 1948. So today I share the first two pages with you. Erzgebirge Im Erzgebirge, im Spielzeugland,nimmt Peter seines Sabinchens Handund läuft mit ihr in den Frühling hinein.Er mag nicht still mehr sitzen – nein!Im Winter haben sie eifrig geschnitztund bei der … Read more
When I was born in 1958 my mum was given a birthday present for me by a relative of my grandmother’s. It was a book which she kept for me until I was able to listen to her read the story. She must have read the book to me and let me play with it … Read more
EDIT 2020: Sadly, the game has gone from their site and it looks like it won’t return, sorry. During the last nine months I wrote blog posts about 9 different German dialects. I hope you enjoyed them, because now it’s your turn. I found this wonderful German, Austrian and Swiss dialect card on Expedia.de which I was … Read more
Today’s post is the third and last one about Upper German and we will learn how to speak Bavarian ☺ No, that would be an impossible task, but if you have never heard people speak Bavarian or would like to know more about Bayerisch, or Bayrisch, as it’s also often spelled, then stay here and watch … Read more
In our 8th blog post of German dialects and second part of Upper German we look at the Franconian language – Fränkisch. Wikipedia says:”Franconia (German: Franken, also called Frankenland) is a region in Germany, characterised by its culture and language, and may be roughly associated with the areas in which the East Franconian dialect group, locally … Read more
After having looked at three lower German and three middle German dialects, we come to the upper German dialects. And we start with Swabian, or Schwäbisch, as it’s called in German. Wikipedia says that ‘it is spoken in Swabia, which covers much of the southwestern German state of Baden-Württemberg, including its capital, Stuttgart. It is also … Read more
Berlinerisch, or Berliner Schnauze, as it’s also lovingly called, is our last post about the middle German dialects. As the name says, Berlinerisch is spoken in Berlin. Anybody learning German who is struggling with the pronunciation of the ‘ch’ in ‘ich’ will love the Berlin dialect, because they say ‘ick’. I can almost hear you sigh … Read more
Today we move to the East of Germany, to Saxony, where the dialect is Sächsisch. According to Wikipedia “The Free State of Saxony (German: der Freistaat Sachsen) is a landlocked federal state of Germany, bordering the federal states of Brandenburg, Saxony Anhalt, Thuringia, and Bavaria, as well as the countries of Poland and the Czech … Read more
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