As most of you know German words can be fun, especially those long ones. Often my students look at these words and ask me how to pronounce words like ‘Verkehrsverbindungen’ (transport connections) or ‘Haftpflichtversicherung’ (liability insurance) or ‘Geburtstagseinladung’ (birthday invitation). In a lesson it’s easy as I can give them the answer,but what to do … Read more
A new school year started this week, so I thought ‘school’ would be a great topic for our ‘German on Thursday’ post. As most of you know, the Germans love to use compound nouns (words consisting of more than one noun). In English they usually stay as two (or more) words, like ‘school bus’ whereas … Read more
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
It’s raining again! Whether it’s raining where you are or not, we all like to talk (or should I say ‘moan’) about the weather. So, what better time than a rainy day to look at some compound words 😮 Although the word rain is ‘der Regen’, compound words which begin with ‘Regen’ aren’t necessarily ‘der’ … Read more
About two years ago I posted an A to Z of long German compound nouns on twitter – one every day, the German words took up a lot of the 140 characters 🙂 For a while I had the whole list on my website, then moved it because I wanted something else. I even saved … Read more
Have I got your attention? Did you think, ‘Yay, no more those long, long German words’. Or was your first thought ‘Oh no, I like those lovely long words’. Fear not, they are not outnumbered, but they were on Outnumbered! I have written about German compound nouns before but when I watched Outnumbered on … Read more
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