Improve your German with children’s books
Whether you are learning German or would like to read to your child in German, children’s books are great! But where to find them? Of course, you can buy them on amazon or bring some back from...
View ArticlePractise your German with Project Gutenberg
I have mentioned Project Gutenberg before for individual books, but there are so many good German books available, it deserves a blog post on its own. Project Gutenberg digitalises old books which...
View ArticleRevise your German with these free videos
Last week I came across a post on Google+ with a video about prepositions. I checked it out and found out that there wasn’t just one video but a whole range of videos and lessons. The page is Free...
View ArticleLearn German during the World Cup
For all those football fans who will be glued to the screen for the next few weeks but would also like to learn some German, here is some football info in German. The first is a list of German...
View ArticleHave fun learning German with jokes
Jokes are a great way to learn or improve your German. Especially funny pictures with just one or two sentences are brilliant for beginners and advanced learners alike. That’s why, whenever I spot a...
View ArticleHow to procrastinate and learn German
Do you like to procrastinate? And do you also like to learn German? Do you like painting by numbers? If you can answer yes to those questions, I’ve found an interesting website for you! The lovely...
View ArticleDeutsch am Donnerstag – Bienen
I took this picture of a bee hive the other day and it reminded me of some idioms and phrases we use with the word ‘Biene’ fleißige Biene – busy bee so fleißig wie eine Biene – as busy as a bee...
View ArticleDeutsch am Donnerstag – der Kopf
Isn’t this a wonderful picture of a head? It can be found in Calne, Wiltshire, UK. It looks like somebody has lost his head – jemand hat seinen Kopf verloren. Other idioms are: seinen Kopf...
View ArticleDeutsch am Donnerstag – Lesezeichen
I love my Kindle! I love the convenience of carrying lots of books around with me in one small gadget. But I do miss one thing: bookmarks – Lesezeichen! These are just some of the bookmarks I have,...
View ArticleImprove your German with Pinterest
Pinterest is wonderful for finding resources which can help you learn German. If you already know how it works, ignore this first part of the blog post and scroll down to the list of people worth...
View ArticlePractise your German with online Advent Calendars
Here we are again, it’s the first of December – time for an Advent Calendar! Did you buy one for yourself? With chocolate? I have ☺ But how about an Advent calendar for learning German? I found a few...
View ArticlePlaying games? No, learning German!
Are you looking for different ways of learning German because it gets boring reading and re-reading your text book? Do you like playing games? Then you may like to try out games for languages, a...
View ArticleCare for some smarter German?
Regular readers know that I’m always on the lookout for free resources to enable you to speak smarter German and I made another find. A fellow German teacher, Michael Schmitz – he teaches German in...
View ArticleLinguee – the new improved online dictionary
I’ve been using Linguee for quite a few years now and also have been recommending it to my students as I find it a great online dictionary for my computer and smartphone. So I was very excited when...
View ArticlePractise your German with videos from BookBox
I came across BookBox this weekend. Although they seem to have been around for a while, it was the first time that I saw one of their videos. Based in India, they make short videos of children’s...
View ArticleImprove your German with Antosch & Lin
If you are a regular reader yo know that I’m always looking for extra activities that you, the German learner, can do in addition to your normal German lesson. I have found sites with videos, music,...
View ArticleImprove your German reading with Amira
Are you looking for more German things to read? Something nice and easy? Something challenging? Something you can read together with your child(ren)? I may have found an interesting website for you:...
View ArticleAre you a lover of football and German? This is for you!
Last week something funny happened. There was a press conference about Jürgen Klopp, the manager of Borussia Dortmund, who was about to announce that he was leaving the club. That’s not the funny bit!...
View ArticleSit on a throne and learn some German!
I know this isn’t really a throne. It’s a chair in the meeting room which I hire for my Wednesday German class. The rest of the furniture are normal tables and chairs apart from this one chair,...
View ArticlePractise your German with interesting quizzes
If you are a regular visitor to Facebook you have probably come across those “What type of … are you?” quizzes and you may have reacted like I usually do: You ignore them because they are rubbish,...
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