photo credit: @houcinencibphotography via Unsplash Sometimes people ask me if it’s hard for me to switch between English and German. My sister would joke and tell me that I was ‘losing my German’ when I struggle to remember a word in German when we talk. The truth is, I still...
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I am doing NaBloPoMo this month. 30 blog posts in 30 days. Come join me. #nablopomo2022 photo credit: @issaphotography via Unsplash I mentioned in my post about German Idioms that Jon and I speak a mix of English and German at home. I also have a few multilingual friends with which that...
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I am doing NaBloPoMo this month. 30 blog posts in 30 days. Come join me. #nablopomo2022 People have told me in the past that they loved these posts, so I am bringing back an old favorite today. Once upon a time, I used to share German idioms for NaBloPoMo. I must have...
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People have told me in the past that they love these posts, so I’ll make an effort to keep it going (until I run out of fun German idioms, I guess). Enjoy! And make sure you check out the other round-ups of idioms here, here, here, here, and here,...
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Photo by Susan Yin on Unsplash I recently read my first German book in a long while. The reason why I hadn’t read any books in German is that German books are somewhat hard to come by. I often read on my eReader and most of my books come from the library and...
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Idioms are probably one of my favorite things about foreign languages. This is a series I’ve carried through a number of years of NaBloPoMo and many people have told me over the years that the posts about German idioms are one of their favorites, so I’ll, once again, try to find some...
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This is a series I’ve carried through a number of years of NaBloPoMo and I’ve been told that people always enjoy learning more German idioms, so I’ll attempt to find some more German sayings (along with their sometimes hilarious literal translations). I tried to only pick idioms that are used...
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Hi friends, just popping in for some low-key Christmas fun (in case anyone is bored enough to even bother reading blogs over Christmas – haha! – but I know I probably will!) Sometimes, I just love reading fun surveys learning some randoms things about each other that way. I hope...
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I’ve done posts like these in the last few years for NaBloPoMo, because learning idioms from other languages is fun and gives you insight on how language works. Let’s see if I can come up with a few more fun German idioms for you this time around. They might distract...
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If you’ve been around for previous NaBloPoMo-years, you might remember that I’ve posted German idioms before. I am a language nerd, appreciate good grammar, spelling, and punctuation and mastering the art of a foreign language definitely includes idioms. I’ve taught J many Germans idioms over the years and I am...
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