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HH – Ha-Ha
When you learn a new language, you also have to learn new names for the letters of the alphabet (and in some cases a new alphabet or even a whole new writing system/systems). It is particularly...
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Sometimes less is more
Last week I had an interesting experience to do with pronunciation (die Aussprache) in a Dialog in Deutsch group with two Spanish speakers. One of these women was trying to explain that she was working...
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Hang onto your cats
Last night a friend told me that he wouldn’t be staying out too late because he had einen Kater – a hangover. Now der Kater is also a “tomcat” and thus when you say that you have a hangover to someone...
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The American Hedgehog?
Taking advantage of the beautiful weather, a group of us decided to have a “BBQ” (or “barbecue” or “barbeque” or ”B-B-Q” or “barbie” or “cookout” or with a different sentence structure “to grill”) –...
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Angling for Ghoti
In English we have some pretty odd spelling-to-sound correspondences, one of which is “GH” (see more here: http://www.howtospell.co.uk/gh-words). Just how far the sound can stray from spelling is...
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Sagt ein Fehler mehr als 1000 Wahrheiten?!
Heute habe ich das Buch »Grammatik in Bildern Deutsch als Fremdsprache – Jeder kann Grammatik lernen« bei der Bücherhalle Barmbek gefunden. Es ist total neu, in 2015 veröffentlich. Ich liebe den...
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English, German or Heavy Metal?
I’ve written before about the challenges of syllabification in learning German in Uh-oh, a stop and Breaking up is hard to do and this morning I finally figured out a mistake I was making in trying to...
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I, E, I, E, Oh!
Have you ever had a sense of panic that you might have been mispronouncing something for years and no one ever told you? I had such a moment recently when I was reviewing the variety of ways you can...
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Lieb und wert halten
Lieblingswörter. Manche haben ein paar. „Gemütlichkeit“ oder „Heimat“ oder „Schadenfreude“, zum Beispiel. Natürlich interessiere ich mich für welche Wörter beliebt sind. Aber ich interessiere mich auch...
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Extra, extra, read all about it
Walking by a local branch of Heymann, I noticed this book about Adele: While I am an Adele fan, it was the subtitle that caught my eye — Eine außergewöhnliche Karriere — for the word außergewöhnlich,...
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