10: Things you wouldn’t know | German Idioms

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 shared dozens of idioms over…

Why you should read books (and watch movies) in their native language

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 – as far as I…

20: Things you wouldn’t know: More German Idioms

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 pretty frequently in today’s everyday…

10: Things you wouldn’t know: More German idioms

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 still learning new English idioms…

21: Things you wouldn’t know: even more German idioms

If you’ve been reading my blog for a while, you know that in the last two years during NaBloPoMo, I started a little series about German idioms. Idioms are awesome in every language and the more idioms you know in a foreign language, the closer you’ll get to perfecting your language skills. J and I…