Welcome to another month of the German Action for Happiness Calendars. As before, you can if you wish also print out a PDF version. And if you want or need to, you can see it here in English.
Use the following sentences as a German reading and translation exercise and then act on them.
This month’s theme: Mindful March – achtsamer März
Happier – Kinder – TogetherGlücklicher – freundlicher –…
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Welcome to my next blog post based on our ‘Ask Angelika’ shows with practical or useful sentences you might hear or use yourself in certain scenarios.
Today we’re talking about fasting during Lent, Ramadan and in general.
Die Fastenzeit dauert von Aschermittwoch bis…
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Welcome to my next blog post based on our ‘Ask Angelika’ shows with practical or useful sentences or phrases you might hear or use yourself in certain scenarios.
Today we’re talking about carnival in Germany.
Die fünfte JahreszeitThe fifth season (carnival season). You can…
A while ago I was asked when (or how) to use willkommen with bei, in, zu, auf or an. I answered and then did a little research to see if there was more.
The result is this blog post.
Willkommen – welcome
Herzlich willkommen – a bit more polite or friendly, but still translated as welcome
höchst willkommen – most welcome
jemanden willkommen heißen – to welcome sombody
Das wäre sehr…
Ask Angelika Season 5 Episode 23 - Practical German for pregnancy & chil…
Welcome to another month of the German Action for Happiness Calendars. As before, you can if you wish also print out a PDF version. And if you want or need to, you can see it here in English, where you also find further foreign languages.
Use the following sentences as a German reading and translation exercise and then act on them.
This month’s theme: Friendly February – freundlicher…
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Welcome to my third blog post based on our ‘Ask Angelika’ shows with practical or useful sentences you might hear or use yourself in certain scenarios.
Today we’re ordering coffee and cake in a café.
Hallo, ich möchte bestellen.Hello, I’d like to order.When nobody comes to…
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The verb brechen means to break. It gets conjugated as follows (watch out, it’s an irregular verb, so the 2nd and 3rd form singular is different):
ich breche
du brichst
er/ sie/ es bricht
wir brechen
ihr brecht
sie/ Sie brechen
The perfect tense goes with ‘haben’ and…
Ask Angelika Season 5 Episode 22 - Practical German for diabetics
Just a quick blog post telling you how to say ‘ask questions’, 'tomorrow morning’ and 'eating a meal’ in German.
As German learners start to learn more and more vocabulary, they learn that ‘questions’ are ‘Fragen’ and the verb ‘to ask’ is ‘fragen’. So when they want to say ‘asking questions’ they say ‘Fragen fragen’.
That’s not how we say it in German (although if you said it, people would understand you).
Asking questions in German is ‘Fragen stellen’ (literally to put questions).
The next two words…
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