Image attribution: Engelbert Reineke The above quote is from Willy Brandt, a former German Chancellor and I think about it every time I see a website which has been translated by a translating website!Those translating websites aren’t a bad idea if you want to know something from a foreign website. Sometimes they translate well, sometimes … Read more
How often have you had those thoughts? Especially if you are learning a foreign language? Does the following sound familiar? You are learning a foreign language and are beginning to get a bit confident, when after a few weeks or months you come across a text, maybe a newspaper article, in that language ……… and you feel you … Read more
This is a question I hear a lot from children when I teach at schools. But often adults don’t know either. They know how to spell words and how to pronounce things, but when asked what these words are they don’t know, which led me to understand that they would not understand grammar either. When … Read more
I have been teaching a new beginners German class tonight and at the end of the lesson one student came and told me a funny story.It was about a Battle of Britain celebration he went to a few years ago. The RAF base invited a few German and Italian pilots to the celebration but then … Read more
The other day I read and commented on Cathy Dobson’s blog (The blog has sadly gone) about her first few (acually 20) years of living in Germany after having moved there from England. It brought back many memories of when I moved from Germany to England. I was lucky because I already spoke (if badly) English, … Read more
I have started a blog on a different webpage but The fun of being a German Teacher is supposed to be just that: a recount of funny incidents. I have since found that I’d like to write about other things, too, but still German related. So, welcome to my ramblings about things in Germany or England, … Read more
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