by Christine Burgmer | Oct 29, 2014 | Allgemein |
We don’t normally say that someone has a ‘free day’ as in German. We say that ‘he or she has got the day off’. That means that he/she doesn’t have to work on that day. Two other example sentences: I’m going to take a day off...
by Christine Burgmer | Oct 27, 2014 | Allgemein |
We use a capital (large) letter at the beginning of a sentence. For example: “We thought it would be useful to produce a little book.” We also use a capital letter for the personal pronoun ‘I’ (meaning ‘ich’). For example:...
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by Christine Burgmer | Oct 26, 2014 | Allgemein |
“When in Rome, do as the Romans do.” Proverb This is one of my favourite proverbs, and means that we should behave in the same way as the people around us behave.
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by Christine Burgmer | Oct 25, 2014 | Allgemein |
I learned a lot from the Deutsche Welle’s slideshow on Germany’s traditional dress. I wonder if anyone on this site has seen any of these costumes. The only ones I know are ‘lederhosen’. Did you know that in some villages in the Black Forest...
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by Christine Burgmer | Oct 24, 2014 | Allgemein |
We’ve seen or heard of people who can memorise lists of numbers in telephone books and the order of cards in a deck. And we most probably believe that we wouldn’t be able to do it. In this TED Talk video, Joshua Foer describes a technique, called...
by Christine Burgmer | Oct 23, 2014 | Allgemein |
The Telegraph has collected a lot of strange signs – all to do with animals. Would you be able to do a better job? 😉
