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Some simple facts about Germany Posted by jan on Nov 21, 2011
Germany is located in the heart of Europe. It has nine Nachbarstaaten (neighboring states) and it naturally borders the Nordsee (North Sea) and Ostsee (Baltic Sea) and the European Alps in the south (The borders to all neighboring states are open, by the way. The only exception is Switzerland). With its 357.111,92 km², it is…
My Experience and Scientific Results about Second Language Learning Posted by Sandra Rösner on Jan 26, 2011
In this post I would like to tell you about eine Begegnung (an encounter) I had some weeks ago because this zufällige Begegnung (chance meeting) gave rise zwei Themen in einem Zug anzureißen (to touch on two topics in one go). Additionally, you have the opportunity to enlarge your vocabulary. One of the two topics…
Same same but (sounds) different – Part 3 Posted by jan on May 5, 2010
Today there´s the third and last part of words that are the same in both languages. Finally we´ll see the letters R to Z. There are not much left, although there are a lot of words that are not exactly but almost the same. But this is another story. As always, don´t forget that the…
Same same but (sounds) different – Part 2 Posted by jan on Mar 19, 2010
Hi everybody. Here´s the second part of words that are the same in both languages. Today we go on with the letters F to P. But don´t forget: The pronunciation is different in most cases!
Same same but (sounds) different – Part 1 Posted by jan on Feb 9, 2010
Did you know that there are a lot of words in German that are exactly the same in English? Yes there are! Of course the pronunciation is different from time to time, but the meaning and spelling are mostly the same. I decided to come up with a little series about this topic, so I´ll…