If you’re bored, go down to a cafe and be ready to ask the waitress how her day has been or what she recommends to order. Anticipating sentences you can use that day will help speed you along your way in the great quest for fluency. ...
Dirndl origins The wordDirndlhad meant just "girl" in the Bavarian dialect, now it can mean either a girl or the dress. The old name for the dress isDirndlgewand. Servant girls started wearing dresses resembling today’s Dirndls in the 1800s. In those days they were modest affairs, plain...
As such, German has the reputation for sounding harsh and scary, but I’m here to convince you that it absolutely isn’t and that it’s easier than you think to learn it! I started learning German in 2019, having travelled to Germany for years and never spoken a word of the language...
a linguist at the University of Siegen. English has its own problems (see Books & Arts), but nouns are genderless and job words neutral, bar the odd exception like “waitress”. In Germany, solutions usually involve awkwardly in...
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On the way out I said to my waitress, "Be careful, Sue. There's something funny about the glasses you gave me - they're filled in on the top, and there's a hole on the bottom!" The brave sentry thinks it's funny that most Spanish 3rd-person-sentences have six possible ways of...
Apple strudel with ice cream is to die for! Will be back to try more! Totally reminded me of home cooking with a great atmosphere! Our waitress was the bomb too!" Elzbieta Todd CUSTOMER "I visited the Gerst Haus for the first time this past Monday. Enjoyed the atmosphere full of hardwo...
For example the German word“wenn”can mean“when”or“if.”The result was that he often wrote“when”but meant“if.”Simi-larly, he sometimes wrote“become”for“receive”and“from”for“of.”(Kennedy 2002, 10)But then again, changing identities is easier for fictional literary characters ...
When the waitress came over, I asked for “zwei Kaffee, bitte”. She didn’t understand a word, and she wasn’t even embarrassed. So while waiting for our food (it took forever) we bitched about her in German. No one noticed. Later, I quizzed the owner when she brought us the ...
If you’re bored, go down to a cafe and be ready to ask the waitress how her day has been or what she recommends to order. Anticipating sentences you can use that day will help speed you along your way in the great quest for fluency. ...