Welcome to my next blog post based on our ‘Ask Angelika’ shows with practical or useful sentences you might hear or use yourself in certain scenarios.
Today we will cover sentences about twinning. No, not about twins, but about the connection between town of different countires.
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Städtepartnerschaften sind eine besondere Beziehung zwischen lokalen Behörden oder Gemeinden in verschiedenen Ländern.
Twinning is a special relationship between local authorities or communities in different countries.
If you’re new to twinning and want to find out more, check out Twinning – European Commission
Die Bürgerinnen und Bürger haben die Möglichkeit, Kontakte zu knüpfen und sich gegenseitig kennen zu lernen.
The citizens have an opportunity to make contact and get to know each other.
Sie entwickeln Verständnis und Freundschaft und tauschen Besuche aus.
They develop understanding and friendship and exchange visits.
Stätdepartnerschaften entstanden nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg.
Twinning began after World War II.
Die wohl berühmteste Verbindung besteht zwischen Coventry und Dresden.
Perhaps the most famous link is between Coventry and Dresden.
If you like to read more about this partnership, go to Dresden, Germany – Coventry’s twin towns and cities
Beide Städte hatten katastrophale Schäden durch Luftangriffe erlitten.
Both cities had suffered catastrophic damage from air raids.
Devizes ist mit Mayenne in Frankreich und Waiblingen in Deutschland partnerschaftlich verbunden.
Devizes is twinned with Mayenne in France and Waiblingen in Germany.
14 years ago I wrote about the twinning weekend in Devizes.
Here’s the video where Steven gets to practise saying and translating the sentences:
What can you do with these sentences to remember them?
You can bookmark this post or make a vocabulary list with them. You can do that with any paper or electronic notebook. Or you could buy my notebook which I designed specially for German vocab learners. It has space for vocabulary lists and sentences. You can even choose one of two colours ☺
