Category Archives: German language
Today’s German word comes with a photo: Der Schimmel is a white horse (also mold, but that’s another post). Das Amt is an administrative office. Put them together, and you get der Amtsschimmel, the dreaded beaurocratic mess we Americans call …
Learning German with Lucky Luke
I don’t just sit around and watch television all day. Sometimes I read books. Comic books, that is–and my favorite is Lucky Luke, the man who shoots faster than his shadow. Television is a great way to learn a foreign …
The other night, I was watching the European Jumping Championships on Eurosport. An excellent German rider was all set to win the gold medal when his horse took down a bar on the very last jump. That bar, said the …
I just learned via a brochure I picked up this weekend that there is a museum only 15 miles (25 kilometers) away in Bruchmühlbach-Miesau dedicated to the invention and development of der Staubsauger. It looks like a lot of fun. …
It’s been rainy and chilly. Last night was a crisp 43 degrees F (6 degrees C). Today is beautiful, though, sunny and hot–unseasonably warm for September. But it isn’t the start of Indian summer, as my friend Heidi points out. …
My box of German cereal informs me that I’m getting 3,7 grams of Ballaststoffe in every serving. Now, I know that die Stoffe is stuff–or, to put it a nicer way, material. And I can guess pretty quickly that der …
As I flip channels on my German television set, by far the most surreal experience I can have is pausing on channel 29, TV5Monde: French television with German subtitles. The juxtaposition highlights how almost ostentatiously different the languages of these …