Edit: sadly, the band ALFORNA has split up, and one of the songs that I originally posted, has been removed from Youtube. The other song is still there, so I leave this post. Many students complain that when they visit a foreign country, they can’t understand a word, even if they have learned the language.That’s normal, … Read more
Yesterday we had our last charity event of the year – our by now annual German Carol singing. Again, beautifully accompanied by Al Summers on his guitar, 23 students and friends got together to a great evening of German Christmas food and – of course – German Carol singing. We raised £131.10 for Let Them … Read more
I have written about Detlef Cordes’ songs before (here and here) but as he’s updated his website, it’s well worth another visit. Detlef loves writing and singing children’s songs and a lot of them are very useful for learning German, especially for children. You can listen to each song while also reading or singing … 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
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
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
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
Last night, despite horrendous weather, 24 students and friends joined me for an evening of German Christmas Carol singing. No, that’s not quite true, at some stage there were 27, as we were joined via Skype by my mother, brother and nephew from Schüttorf in Germany: The event happened for several reasons: – our joined … Read more
The 6th December is St Nicholas Day. There is an interesting article on Wikipeda about the history and legends but for German children there are far more interesting things to decide, like which plate to put outside their door! According to legend, during the night from the 5th to the 6th December, Nikolaus brings sweets, fruit, nuts … Read more
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