Archive for the year 2011
Schloss Neuschwanstein Posted by Sandra Rösner on Jul 19, 2011
It is very probable that most people have seen an imitation of the fairy-tale castle Schloss Neuschwanstein, which was, for example, the inspiration for Disneyland’s Sleeping Beauty Castle. The original Schloss Neuschwanstein is to be found in the south of Bavaria, in the village of Hohenschwangau near the town Füssen. The castle is an idealized…
The German prepositions “zu” and “nach” – “to” Posted by Sandra Rösner on Jul 15, 2011
Sometimes it can be very hard for learners of German to choose the correct preposition. This may be especially the case with the German prepositions “zu” and “nach”, which both mean “to” in English. Even some Germans have difficulties to distinguish “zu” and “nach” or use other prepositions when actually “zu” or “nach” are obligatory…
German music: Rio Reiser Posted by jan on Jul 14, 2011
Hi everybody… Some weeks ago when I introduced Herbert Grönemeyer to you, there was a big respond to it. Many of you wanted to know more about German musicians or bands. I guess you thought about the contemporary ones not about classic 🙂 So I decided to do a little series of portraits from time…
Die Fußballweltmeistermannschaft der Frauen – Women’s soccer world championship Posted by Sandra Rösner on Jul 7, 2011
Currently, the world championship of women’s soccer takes place in Germany. Therefore, I would like to convey some vocabularies on soccer in this post. Below you can find a German text and the English translation. Das Eröffnungsspiel der Fußballweltmeisterschaft der Frauen fand am 26. Juni 2011 im Berliner Olympiastadion statt. The inaugural game of…
Instruments – Instrumente Posted by jan on Jul 1, 2011
Hey there, as I promised, there will be a blog post about instruments. So let´s start the classic way and have a look at an Orchestra. In it´s main parts it consists of the following instruments: der Dirigent – conductor die Violine/die Geige – violin die Bratsche – viola das Violoncello – violoncello der Kontrabass…
Audiovisual comprehension – Die Karls- und Bärenhöhle Posted by jan on Jun 24, 2011
At the weekend I had the chance to visit a flowstone cave in the south of Germany. It´s name is Karls- und Bärenhöhle, because it consists of two sections. This is what it looks like: And here´s the text. It´s maybe too difficult for beginners, but this way advanced learnes also have something to practice…
Jupiter Jones – Still Posted by Sandra Rösner on Jun 24, 2011
One effective way of picking up a foreign language is to listen to and to sing along songs. I am sure that most of you think probably of Rammstein and Tokio Hotel when they think of German artists and music, as these bands are very popular abroad. Unfortunately, none of these bands are my taste…