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15 German Sayings and Proverbs

1. Ich versteh nur Bahnhof Literally: I understand only train station Meaning: I have no idea what you are saying

2. Du gehst mir voll auf den Keks Literally: You walk me on the cookie Meaning: You are getting on my nerves. 3. Du hast nicht mehr alle Tassen im Schrank Literally: You are missing cups in your cupboard Meaning: You’re crazy

4. Ich bin fuchsteufelswild Literally: I’m foxdevilswild Meaning: I’m super mad

5. Ich krieg die Krise Literally: I get the crisis Meaning: I’m going mad

6. Mir fällt ein Stein vom Herzen Literally: A stone falls from my heart Meaning: I’m relieved

7. Friede, Freude, Eierkuchen Literally: peace, joy and omelette/pancake Meaning: everything’s hunky-dory

8. Kein Schwein war da Literally: No pig was there Meaning: Nobody was present/Nobody participated

9. Sie hat einen Vogel Literally: She has a bird Meaning: She’s crazy

10. Das Leben ist kein Ponyhof Literally: Life is no pony farm Meaning: Life isn’t easy

11. Er spielt die beleidigte Leberwurst Literally: He’s playing the offended liver sausage Meaning: He’s very resentful

12. Aller Anfang ist schwer Literally: All beginnings are difficult Meaning: The first step is always the hardest

13. Wie du mir, so ich dir Literally: Like you to me, so I to you Meaning: Tit for tat 

14. Ich glaub mein Schwein pfeift Literally: I think my pig whistles Meaning: I think I’m dreaming

15. Du Glückspilz Literally: You luck-mushroom Meaning: You lucky one

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4 exercises to improve speaking skills in your target language:

Tell a story. It’s a great exercise to improve not only your speaking, but also your grammar and vocabulary. Think about what happened to you or anyone else, that you would talk about to your friends or family. Then tell a story out loud using only your target language. Telling stories is a huge part of our everyday talks, so it’s really important to practice that.

Talk about a book, a movie or whatever you want. Imagine you’re convincing someone to check out (or not to check out) a book you have already read. Review every movie or TV series you want, and don’t worry about spoiling anything or offending someone. If it’s a piece of shit, learn how to say that when talking to Queen Elizabeth II, and how to say that when chatting with someone you’d meet at the bar.

Discuss an important topic that is interesting to you. You can choose from anything: society issues, politics, economics, science, environment, culture… First try to explain it and then tell your own opinion on the subject. It’s different than the second exercise since it develops the specific vocabulary.

Read an article and summarise it. Find an article in your target language that interests you and talk about it. You can do it like you would when asked about it in school, or you can do it in more of a “sharing knowledge with my friends” manner.

Et c’est tout! You can call it “act like a youtuber” exercises. If you want, record yourself while speaking. Remember that work is the key to success.

[ivystudying]

[languageoclock]

Wie gut ist dein deutsch?

[official-solingen]

Ich……. als germanist………..

[germanshitposting]

Er yeetet, sie yeetet, es yeetet, sie yeeten, ihr yeetet, ich yeete, er/sie/es hat geyeetet, sie haben geyeetet, ihr habt geyeetet, ich habe geyeetet, er/sie/es werden yeeten, ihr werdet yeeten, ich werde yeeten

[iprobablyspeakyourlanguage]

I have decided to make a post about some French (some of them might be Belgian for example, I didn’t check oups) singers and musicians that you could listen to in order to practice French ! I will link a song which is according to me their best one (aka my favorite song hahaha), so you can listen to them ! This list is based on my tastes and what I listen to, so you might not like or have heards of the artists I will talk about.

Moreover, I will divide the post in two categories : the first one will be about artists singing in French, and the second one about French artists singing in English, because I think it can be interesting for the ones who are interested in French culture (so more than “only” the French language) to know what music French artists make ! 

This post is about contemporary artists, which means 2010′s artists, I will probably make another post about very famous French songs or something like that, someday. I know the list is short but I will update it anytime I enjoy new artists, so keep an eye on it ! All of their songs are available on Spotify by the way. Enjoy !

Artists singing… In French

54 (rap) - Rien de nouveau sous le soleil

Vendredi sur mer (electro/pop) - Une femme à la peau bleue

Odezenne (rap) - Souffle le vent

Tim Dup (electro? pop?) - Soleil noir

Soviet suprem (electro and russian melodies inspired) - Post soviet

Angèle (pop) - Je veux tes yeux

Moodoid (internet says they make psychedelic rock) - Miss Smith

Sein (rap) - Légal 

Thérapie taxi (pop I guess) - Hit sale

Gaël Faye (rap) - Tôt le matin

Milk Coffee & Sugar (rap? slam?) - Elle(s) 

Hippocampe fou (rap) - Presque rien

French artists singing… In English

The Avener (electro) - Fade out lights

Her (from my city !! internet says they make some soul) - Wanna be you

C2C (electro) - Happy 

Naâman (reggae) - Resistance

Caravan Palace (a mix between jazz and electro I guess) - Lone digger

Last Train (ROCK AF and it was so hard to chose only one song) - Dropped by the doves

[corvidcantina]

Me: I want to know languages

Person: then study

Me: no study. Only know.

[knightcore]

me: *neglects my duo lingo app*

The Duolingo Owl:

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[thatswhywelovegermany]

Some really good tips how to sound like a native German

[suplanguages]

as requested by anonymous, here are are a few words/phrases for giving directions in german!

rechts - right links - left zu deiner/Ihrer Rechten/Linken - to your left/right auf der rechten/linken Seite - on the right/left side geradeaus - straight ahead gegenüber (von) (+ Dat.) - opposite (of) neben (+ Dat.) - next to an (+ Dat.) vorbei - past  vor (+ Dat.) - in front of  an der Ecke - at the corner da vorne - over there

die Straße - street/road die Kreuzung - intersection, crossroad der Kreisel - roundabout die Ampel - traffic light die Unterführung - underpass die Überführung - overpass der Zebrastreifen - zebra crossing

der Straße folgen - follow the street die Straße entlang - down the street am Ende der Straße - at the end of the street rechts/links abbiegen - turn right/left nach x Metern - after x meters die (erste/zweite/…) Straße rechts/links* - the (first/second/…) street to the right/left die andere Straßenseite - the other side of the street die Straße überqueren - to cross the street

Entschuldigung, könnten Sie mir bitte sagen, wie ich zu A komme? - Excuse me, could you please tell me how to get to A? Entschuldigung, könnten Sie mir bitte sagen, wo A ist? - Excuse me, could you please tell me where A is?

*) colloquially, you might hear someone leave out the “Straße” in there and just say “die zweite links” (the second to your left) 

[languageundliebe]

A few other things that may be useful:

die Richtung - direction die Auffahrt - slip road die Ausfahrt - exit der Fahrstreifen - lane die Gasse - lane/ally nehmen - to take weiter - further starten - start auf X bleiben - stay on X X bis Y folgen - follow X until Y Scharf links/rechts - Sharp left/right links/rechts halten - keep left/right

@deadgraves

[thatswhywelovegermany]

Honestly, as a German I can not quite understand the obsession of the English speaking world with the question whether a word exists or not. If you have to express something for which there is no word, you have to make a new one, preferably by combining well-known words, and in the very same moment it starts to exist. Agree?

[latveriansnailmail]

Deutsche Freunde, could you please create for me a word for the extreme depression I feel when I bend down to pick up a piece of litter and discover two more pieces of litter?

[thatswhywelovegermany]

um = around

die Welt = world

die Umwelt = environment

ver = prefix to indicate something difficult or negative, a change that leads to deterioration or even destruction that is difficult to reverse or to undo, or a strong negative change of the mental state of a person

der Müll = garbage, trash, rubbish, litter

-ung = -ing

die Vermüllung = littering

ver- = see before

zweifeln = to doubt

-ung = see before

die Verzweiflung = despair, exasperation, desperation

die Umweltvermüllungsverzweiflung = …

[serhumfreysbrokencollarbone]

This is a german compound on the spot master class and I am LIVING

[byaliciagrace]

GERMAN YOUTUBERS MEGAPOST

Hey German Study Buddies,

I think watching German youtube for the past year or so has allowed my German to improve so much. Adopting the German colloquialisms and listening to the fluency and grammar structures in the videos has really helped me so so much! For anybody learning a language: youtube is the best!

Not only is it fun to watch the many funny videos or hauls (yes…I have obsession with clothing hauls), but also you can learn so much by just continually listening to the German. Anyway, it took me a while to find these German youtubers so I thought I would share them in one big master post here:

PS: if you know any other good German youtubers let me know and I’ll add to the list! :) PPS: I put a little heart next to my favourite ones x

Funny Videos: ♡ Luca Con-Crafter: https://www.youtube.com/user/ConCrafter Lifestyle : ♡ Anika Teller: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUyjVrHZ5lpKSOEkXASdt7w Anne Welt : https://www.youtube.com/user/annewelt ♡ Hannah : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCr7AU8iyxuCcedAwy4vJQHQ Taimi: https://www.youtube.com/user/MyLittlePinkMuffin ♡ Ema Louise: https://www.youtube.com/user/xXTheMakeUpGuruXx Diana zur Löwen: https://www.youtube.com/user/dfashion100germany Laren Joelle: https://www.youtube.com/user/LaurenCocoXO/videos Bibis Beauty Palace: https://www.youtube.com/user/BibisBeautyPalace Rebekah Wing: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHKVTtxg9yRJ_5KDMZFCkCw/videos ♡ Shanti Tan: https://www.youtube.com/user/TheMsMania ♡ Ischtar Isik: https://www.youtube.com/user/isipisi5 ♡ Katharine Damm: https://www.youtube.com/user/katharinadamm/videos Laura Lareeva: https://www.youtube.com/user/youshouldalwaysfeel/videos xLaeta: https://www.youtube.com/user/xLaeta/videos Bonny Trash: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1FUmelOA9Tc8VFmoeexIkw/videos ViktoriaSarina: https://www.youtube.com/user/ViktoriaSarina/videos Lisa-Marie Schiffner: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrVsCGkgj5Yz6d5l7etndkg Tina Neumann: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCU1scWF4_I3SgoO9px3K-1g/videos Barbara Sofie: https://www.youtube.com/user/Barbieloveslipsticks/videos Douniaslimani: https://www.youtube.com/user/douniaslimani/videos  

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[germclass]

German Class

This is just a first introduction post with the ideas I currently have, please feel free to add ideas or comment!

This class will offer

- a weekly topic you can write about, make flashcards for, etc. - corrections for anything you wrote that you want checked - with #germclass you can show me what you did for German (listened to music, watched something, Duolingo whatever) - perhaps a Discord server for quicker help? but you can instant message this blog too - explanations for anything requested

That’s it so far, I just wanted to make a post already to get it slowly going!

[ich-bin-der-baer]

Reading Practice: Meet the Germans: Frühling ist Spargelzeit

der Adel – nobility; aristocracy die Butter – butter die Ernte – harvest der Frühling – spring die Heilpflanze – medicinal plant die Kuriosität – oddity; curiosity der Spargel (pl. die Spargel) – asparagus die Spargelzeit – asparagus season der Spruch (pl. die Sprüche) – saying; aphorism die Veranstaltung – event

(etwas) anpflanzen – to plant (something); to grow (something) heranreifen – to ripen küren – to elect; to choose quietschen – to squeak schälen – to peel schmelzen – to melt vorbehalten – to reserve widmen – to dedicate zerlassen – to melt; to dissolve

arbeitsaufwendig – labour-intensive aufwendig – lavish; extravagant kalorienarm – low-calorie zeitaufwendig; zeitaufwändig – time-consuming

eine alte Weisheit – a wise old saying auf dem Vormarsch sein – to be on the advance die Menschen der Antike – people of the ancient world zu (etwas) imstande sein – to be able to do (something) Johannestag – St John’s Day; Midsummer’s Day

[sprachtraeume]

und sie waren Mitbewohner

[sprachtraeume]

Oh mein Gott, Sie waren Mitbewohner

[dialect-warrior]

Random German slang/phrases

I created a list of random German slang from a video game to help people in conversation. I’ll make a second list some other time.

VERBS

alles im Griff haben - to have everything under control

am Arsch sein - to be screwed

aus dem Weg schaffen - to get something out of the way (i.e. a problem)

bekannt machen - to introduce [people]

fremd sein - to not be from the area

die Geduld verlieren - to lose patience

herumtreiben - to hang about somewhere

sich raushalten - to stay out of someone’s business

schief gehen - to go wrong [a situation]

umhören - to ask around

verarschen - to take the piss

verrecken - to die [coll.]

NOUNS

die Bullen - the cops

die Jungs - guys

der Kerl (-e) - man [coll.]

der Pechvogel (ö) - unlucky person

der Verrückter (te) - lunatic

der Versager - loser

LITTLE WORDS

als Gegenleistung - in return

gewissen __ - certain __ [person]

in der Tat - as a matter of fact

namens __ - called __

neuerdings - in recent times

so ziemlich __ - pretty much __

umsonst - for nothing

viel los - busy/crowded

PHRASES / SAYINGS

ich bin dabei - i’m in [a deal]

lass das - don’t do that

mach keine Witze über __ - don’t joke about __

man sieht sich - see you around

pass auf dich auf - be careful

rat mal - just guess

reden wir über was anderes - let’s change subject

schon okay - that’s alright

verdammt richtig - damn right

verzieh dich! - get lost!

weißt du was, __ - tell you what, __

wenn es sein muss - if need be

wer weiß das schon? - who knows?

wie wäre es mit __ ? - how about __ ?

woher weißt du das? - how do you know that?