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Deutsch.heutehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03244194879867228306noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68141745908859690.post-87703707454879152402016-11-15T19:35:00.000-08:002016-11-15T19:35:59.345-08:00Let's learn about Austria!Danke, Geography Now! Host Paul Barbaros <br />
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<br />Deutsch.heutehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03244194879867228306noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68141745908859690.post-84555821045937592642016-10-10T11:49:00.000-07:002016-10-10T11:49:12.035-07:00GRAMMATIK - Wiederholt [20 Minute Basic Grammar Review]<div class="col-full" id="header" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px solid; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 0px 8px 7px 2px; clear: both; font-family: proxima_nova_rgregular; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 976px; outline: 0px; padding: 23px 78px 46px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; zoom: 1;">
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What You Oughta Know About Basic German Grammar: The 20-minute Guide</h1>
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<span style="background-color: transparent;">I’m guessing that since you’re reading a post about German, you’ve already accepted the reality that learning any new language has its challenges, and that now you’re ready to </span><a href="http://www.fluentu.com/german/blog/instant-immersion-german/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1cacec; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">get down to some real learning</a><span style="background-color: transparent;">. Right?</span></div>
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Another assumptions I’ll make today is that you’re at least a bit familiar with English grammar.</div>
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Why am I’m making these assumptions? Because you’re reading this in English, and if it’s your native language, you probably had some lessons about the difference between a noun and a pronoun, even if it was years ago in junior high school. Well, it's absolutely true: <a href="http://www.fluentu.com/german/blog/english-words-derived-from-german/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1cacec; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">if you can learn English, you can also learn German</a><span style="background-color: transparent;">.</span></div>
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You might think the idea of “basic German grammar” is an oxymoron. After all, we’re talking about a culture that revels in explaining jokes and that came up with the expressions “<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordnung_muss_sein" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1cacec; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">There must be order</a>” and “<a href="http://www.duden.de/suchen/dudenonline/Warum%20einfach%20wenn%20es%20auch%20kompliziert%20geht" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1cacec; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Why make it easy, when it can also be made complicated?</a>” But fear not, dear reader, since we’re going to do this in a slightly non-Germanic way.</div>
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The idea here is not to detail one part of speech at a time (“This is a noun. A noun is a person, place or thing…” and so on). That would be a bit boring and dry.</div>
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Instead, we’re going to look at the <strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">similarities and differences between German and English</strong>, especially in terms of grammar. There are other considerations when it comes to learning German vocabulary, as well as German pronunciation, so we won’t focus much on those aspects of the language today.</div>
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Near the end, we’ll examine a few general tips that you can use in your approach to learning more about German and German grammar. In that section, we’ll do a quick review of what you should focus on if you’re just starting to learn German, so that you can save yourself some trouble and headaches later on in your learning process.</div>
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The Good News About German Grammar</h2>
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I know that some people believe in getting the bad news out of the way first, but I want to make sure you keep reading and give German grammar a fair chance, so I want to focus on the positive stuff first.</div>
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So let’s look at German grammar elements that are similar to English, as well as a few aspects that are even easier than English!</div>
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German grammar elements that are similar to English ones</h3>
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In many cases, German uses the <strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Subject-Verb-Object</strong> word order, like English does. There are some exceptions to this order in both languages, but it’s still much more familiar than if you were to try to learn a language with a completely different word order, like <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verb%E2%80%93subject%E2%80%93object" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1cacec; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Verb-Subject-Object</a>.</div>
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Uh-oh, “irregular.” That doesn’t sound too good, does it?</div>
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Well, in this case, it’s actually a good sign, since English and German both have a lot of irregular verbs.</div>
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In <a href="https://www.englishclub.com/vocabulary/regular-verbs-list.htm" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1cacec; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">English, regular verbs</a> have an “-ed” ending in the simple past and past participle forms. Words like “cook/cooked/cooked” and “push/pushed/pushed” are regular verbs.</div>
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An <a href="https://www.englishclub.com/vocabulary/irregular-verbs-list.htm" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1cacec; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">irregular verb in English</a> follows a different pattern in the past forms. Many of the most common verbs in English are irregular, including “eat/ate/eaten” and “see/saw/seen.”</div>
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In German, there’s a similar idea with <strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">weak and strong verbs</strong>.</div>
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We can imagine that “weak” verbs aren’t strong enough to change the default past forms, so they get a “-t” suffix in the simple past form (like an “-ed” in English) and also a “ge-” prefix in the participle form. Some <a href="http://www.vistawide.com/german/grammar/german_verbs02.htm#weakverbs" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1cacec; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">examples of weak German verbs</a> are <strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">machen/macht-/gemacht</em></strong> (for the verb “make” or “do”) and <strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">sagen/sagt-/gesagt</em></strong> (for the verb “say”).</div>
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The German “strong” verbs, on the other hand, are irregular, since they change the roots of the verbs quite a bit in the past forms. <a href="http://www.vistawide.com/german/grammar/strong_and_irregular_german_verbs.htm" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1cacec; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Examples of strong German verbs</a> include <strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">kommen/kam-/gekommen</em></strong> (for the verb “come”) and <strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">gehen/ging-/gegangen</em></strong> (for the verb “go”).</div>
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I know what you’re thinking: “So what’s the point? Are you trying to say that verbs in both languages are just confusing?”</div>
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Well, sort of, but they’re often confusing in the same way. Because English and German share common linguistic ancestors, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_irregular_verbs#Groups" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1cacec; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">the verbs for both languages tended to develop along similar patterns</a>. So if a verb is weak in German, it tends to be regular in English, and if it’s strong in German, it’s often irregular in English.</div>
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That’s not to say that there are no exceptions, since the German language often seems to have more exceptions than rules, but it’s a good general guideline. Also, simply knowing that there are different types of verbs in both languages can help you comprehend German grammar better.</div>
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Grammar elements that are easier in German than English</h3>
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If you glance at this whole article, you’ll probably notice that this section is short. Yeah, sorry about that.</div>
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If you’re looking for more good news about learning German, though, <a href="http://www.fluentu.com/german/blog/german-pronunciation-guide/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1cacec; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">check out German pronunciation</a>, since that’s easier in German than in English.</div>
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Unfortunately, German grammar is a bit more intricate, let’s say, than English grammar. There just tend to be more tricky spots that confuse German learners, especially those who are used to English.</div>
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Nevertheless, there are still a few bright spots.</div>
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The sentences “I eat” and “I am eating” are the same in German: <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Ich esse.”</strong></em> You may think that’s confusing. After all, if someone says <strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Ich esse Fisch,”</em></strong> do they mean “I eat fish” or “I am eating fish”? But in reality, you can basically always figure out the speaker’s meaning from context.</div>
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For example, if you’re going into the cafeteria and your friend says <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Heute esse ich Fisch,”</strong></em> then he or she added the <strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">heute</em></strong> (“today”), which shows that it’s just a one-time thing, not a frequent action. Likewise, if someone who’s invited you to dinner asks you, <strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Isst du Fisch?”</em></strong> then you can be sure that they’re asking if you generally eat fish, since they’re probably considering serving fish.</div>
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This whole issue can actually cause problems and confusion for German speakers who are learning English, but since that’s not you, we’ll let them worry about it.</div>
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Look at these two sentences:</div>
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<em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Der Mann ist gut. </em>(The man is good.)</div>
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<em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Der Mann singt gut.</em> (The man sings well.)</div>
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As you can see, here English is the language that looks a bit strange, since we change “good” to “well” when it becomes an adverb. We also add a “-ly” to many other adverbs, while German doesn’t.</div>
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Unfortunately, this silver lining is indeed surrounding a huge, dark cloud: The major caveat here is that I said adjectives are <strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">basically</strong> the same as adverbs, but that only counts for basic adjectives, like in the examples above.</div>
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However, if you put the adjectives before a noun, then you have to <a href="http://www.fluentu.com/german/blog/german-adjectives/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1cacec; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">include the dreaded adjective endings</a>. Those endings mean that a simple word like <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">gut</strong> </em>can also turn into <strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">gute</em>, <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">guter</em>, <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">gutes</em></strong> or <strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">guten</em></strong>,<em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </em>depending on the context.</div>
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But that’s a matter for our next section.</div>
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The Less-good News</h2>
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I didn’t want to title this section “bad” news, since that sounds like a downer. Plus, no language is inherently bad or good. Anyhow, whether you call it “bad” or “less-good,” this half of the article is about how German grammar is different from or harder than English grammar.</div>
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Also, please note that the title of this article refers to <strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">basic</strong> German grammar, so we won’t get sidetracked here into talking about things like the <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.dartmouth.edu/~german/Grammatik/perfect/PastPerfect.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1cacec; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Plusquamperfekt</a></em>, subjunctive, conjunctive or <a href="http://www.webmd.com/eye-health/eye-health-conjunctivitis" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1cacec; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">conjunctivitis</a>.</div>
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Of course, you can get into these elements of German grammar, and find things that are even more confusing, but that’s true of most languages if you look hard enough. After all, when is the last time you really thought about English grammar or diagrammed an English sentence? I’d bet that for most of you, your answer will fall somewhere on the timeline between “not since 9th grade” and “never.”</div>
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The point is this: These things are different from English, but by no means should they be a reason for you to despair or give up German. It’s just good to know what you’re facing so you can know how to overcome it and achieve German grammatical greatness!</div>
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German grammar elements that are different from English ones</h3>
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I know that I was extolling the virtues of German word order in the section above, but as with many things, there is some fine print.</div>
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This may not be strictly “basic” German grammar, but it’s usually something that you’ll come across by the time you get to chapter 5 or 6 in most good German textbooks.</div>
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In those chapters, you’ll start learning words like <strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">dass</i></strong> (that) or <strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">weil</em></strong>(because). These words and other similar ones <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/german/grammar/conjunctionsrev2.shtml" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1cacec; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">are called “subordinating conjunctions,” and when you use them</a>, they send the verb(s) to the end of the sentence or immediate clause.</div>
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For example, let’s elaborate on our <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Ich esse”</strong> </em>example from above. You eat (or are eating) for a reason, right? If that reason is “because I am hungry,” then you’d say “I am eating because I am hungry” in English. In German, it would be pretty similar, except the word “because” will send the verb to the end:</div>
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<em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ich esse, weil ich Hunger habe. </em>(I am eating, because I hunger have.)</div>
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So yeah, it sounds a little bit like Yoda when you’re starting to learn German, but you’ll get used to it and be able to produce sentences like that soon. Just start getting used to it, because it in the future come will (to use German sentence order!).</div>
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They say that there’s a kernel of truth to many stereotypes. I’m not sure if that’s true, but if you have heard the stereotype that German has long words, then I’m afraid this truthkernel (or kernel of truth, for the non-German) can often be true.</div>
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The main reason for these long words is simple: They’re usually just a few short words smashed together into one longer one.</div>
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In English, we can say “Christmas tree,” with the adjective followed by the noun. In other languages, like Spanish for example, you’d say something like <i style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">árbol de Navidad, </i>literally “tree of Christmas.” But in German, you’d put that all into one glorious word: <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Weihnachtsbaum</strong>, </em>literally “Christmastree.” And if you count the spaces, the German version actually has fewer characters than the Spanish one.</div>
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The main thing you’ll need to get used to when it comes to these big words is learning where the smaller words came together, which will also indicate how to pronounce them easily. And as your vocabulary grows, that will become easier to do.</div>
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If you say “she don’t” in English, people will say it’s grammatically incorrect. Sure, listeners will almost certainly understand you, and you may even sound really cool when you <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvfxKbpoxRE" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1cacec; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">sing it incorrectly in a song</a>, but it’s still not considered standard English. For that, you’d need to say “she doesn’t.”</div>
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Changing that “do” by adding the ending “-es” is called conjugation. We don’t do it that much in English; basically we just have to add an “-s” or “-es” to the end of verbs following “he,” “she” or “it,” and also to change up the verb “to be,” since it’s always weird.</div>
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German also has conjugation, but you generally have to change every form of the verb according to the subject. Take the example of <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">kommen</strong> </em>(“to come”) as compared to English.</div>
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<li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">er/sie/es komm<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">t</strong> </em></li>
<li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">wir komm<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">en</strong> </em></li>
<li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">ihr komm<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">t</strong> </em></li>
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<li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">you come</li>
<li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">he/she/it come<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">s</strong></li>
<li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">we come</li>
<li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">you come</li>
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Needless to say, even though it’s something we do in English, it’s a lot more involved in German. You probably don’t even think about it when you speak English.</div>
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Also, another bit of less-good news: You also have to conjugate verbs in the past. Whereas in English you can say “I came,” and “came” stays the same for any subject, it changes in German. With that same verb in the <strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Präteritum</em></strong> (simple past equivalent), it would be:</div>
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<li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">du kam<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">st</strong> </em></li>
<li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">er/sie/es kam </em></li>
<li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">wir kam<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">en</strong> </em></li>
<li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">ihr kam<strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">t</strong> </em></li>
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Whereas in English, it would just be:</div>
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<li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I came</li>
<li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">you came</li>
<li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">he/she/it came</li>
<li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">we came</li>
<li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">you came</li>
<li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">they came</li>
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Take heart, though: The sorta-good news is that these conjugations are usually somewhat predictable and you can <a href="http://www.nthuleen.com/teach/grammar/stemchangeexpl.html" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1cacec; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">learn the weird ones in sets</a>.</div>
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Grammar elements that are more difficult in German than English</h3>
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Well, we can’t avoid it any longer: There are some things that are just trickier for most of us to get the hang of when learning German. With this section, it’s best to approach it with the “it is what it is” mindset. As much as we’d all love for a new <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_orthography_reform_of_1996" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1cacec; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><i style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Rechtschreibreform</i> (“spelling reform”)</a> to actually change some of these baffling grammatical aspects, we’ll probably never get one. So I guess we’ll just have to deal with these things.</div>
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As <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Awful_German_Language" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1cacec; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Mark Twain famously noted in “The Awful German Language,”</a> German nouns “have sex.” Or, at least gender. And in the case of German, there are actually three genders.</div>
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If you’re familiar with Spanish or French, you’ll probably know that those languages have “masculine” and “feminine” nouns. German has those two, also, but it adds in “neutral/neuter.” Unfortunately, the gender of a noun rarely has anything to do with whether it has masculine, feminine or neutral characteristics.</div>
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<em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mädchen</strong> </em>(girl), for example, is famously neutral, not feminine, despite obviously describing a female person. But in this particular case, the word is neutral because it has the <strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">-chen</em></strong> diminutive ending, and all nouns with diminutive endings are neutral in German <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">(Mädchen</em> translates basically to “little maid”).</div>
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So if you know that, you’ll be OK with this and any other word that happens to be diminutive, but there are many other issues.</div>
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In Spanish, for example, if a word ends in “o,” it’s usually masculine, and if it ends in “a,” it’s usually feminine. German nouns can end in basically any letter, though, and that doesn’t really affect the gender.</div>
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Instead, you can sometimes find some <strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">combinations</strong> of letters at the end of a word that will indicate if it’s masculine, feminine or neutral. Unfortunately, this seems to work with fewer than half of the nouns out there, and there seem to be quite a few exceptions, also.</div>
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The takeaway lesson: <strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">If you learn a new noun in German, learn its gender immediately.</strong> It does matter, especially as you learn more and more, even though you may think it seems dumb or useless at first.</div>
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How do you say “the” in German? Isn’t it <strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">das</em></strong>,<em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </em>like in the movie title <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Das Boot”</strong></em><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </strong>? Well, that’s one word that means “the” (which is called a “definite article”). But you can also say <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">der</strong></em><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">,</strong><em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> die</strong></em><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">,</strong><em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> den</strong></em><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">,</strong><em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> dem</strong> </em>and <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">des</strong>—</em>they all also mean “the,” depending on the circumstances.</div>
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Similarly, “a” or “an” (the indefinite articles) can be <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">ein</strong></em><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">,</strong><em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> eine</strong></em><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">,</strong><em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> einen</strong></em><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">,</strong><em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">einem</strong></em> and <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">eines</strong>. </em>These two types of articles change depending on whether the word in question is connected to a subject, a direct object, an indirect object or a possessive word. You’ll hear a lot of talk about different “cases” like <strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">nominative, accusative</strong> and <strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">dative</strong>, and these are just basically grammatical terms to describe parts of sentences.</div>
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Oh, and to make it all a bit more confusing, the articles also change depending on the noun’s gender, of course.</div>
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Again, this is supposed to be about basic grammar, but <a href="http://www.fluentu.com/german/blog/german-nominative-accusative-pronouns-cases-articles/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1cacec; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">this post on cases can help you</a> sort this whole matter out.</div>
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Just to give a very basic example, let’s go back to our “good man” from above.</div>
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I can say <strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Der Mann ist gut”</em></strong> (The man is good), where <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">der</strong> </em>is the masculine definite article (this is also one of those rare cases when a creature with a sexual gender also has the same grammatical gender). In this example, <strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">der Mann</i></strong> is the subject of the sentence.</div>
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But if I made him the object of the sentence, I have to change that <strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">der</em></strong>to <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">den</strong>:</em></div>
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<i style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Ich sehe den Mann. </i>(I see the man.)</div>
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In this case, everything is the same, except the man has now been moved from the subject position to the object position, so we need to reflect that in the grammar by changing <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">der </em>to <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">den.</em> We’d have to make similar changes if we made him the indirect object or the owner of something.</div>
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Why does German do this? Again, it’s not our place to ask this—perhaps the German language gods know. But I find it’s best not to grumble about it and just continue living life with a new fun fact and a smug yet misguided sense of linguistic superiority.</div>
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Alright, this is another element that’s a bit further along than mere basic German grammar, but it’s still probably best to give you a heads-up if you’ve not gotten to these yet.</div>
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If you’re a bit familiar with Spanish, you probably know that you can say something like <strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">la casa blanca</i></strong> (the white house), but not <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">la casa blanco.</em><em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </em>The reason you can’t is because <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">casa</em> is a feminine noun, and those require a feminine adjective ending, in this case an “a.”</div>
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German is very similar in this regard, but of course they had to go and take it too far again. Since German has three genders, you’d think it would need three endings. But it’s not that simple, of course, since much as indirect and direct articles (above) are affected by their position in the sentence, you also need to change adjective endings depending on whether the nouns that follow them are the subject, direct object, indirect object or possessive word in a sentence.</div>
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To be honest, at least for me, this is where learning German can get a bit bleak and lead you down some dark linguistic paths, but fortunately German culture has <a href="http://www.fluentu.com/german/blog/german-food-vocabulary-9-dishes/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1cacec; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">a lot of pork and beer</a> to invigorate your spirits and loosen your tongue.</div>
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Do These 3 Things to Keep Learning German Grammar</h2>
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I don’t want to give the impression that German is incredibly hard, but I also don’t want to make you think it’s a piece of cake. Like any language, it will take time and effort.</div>
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Taking all of the above into consideration, here are a few places where I’d suggest you concentrate that effort when learning German.</div>
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1. Learn the gender of every new noun you learn</h3>
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I mentioned this in the previous section, but I’ll say it again because it’s very important. Unfortunately, it’s also difficult if you’re not used to thinking in these terms.</div>
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But as you probably noticed, much of the structure of German grammar is based on whether a specific word is masculine, feminine or neutral. That fact affects adjectives, articles and your general sanity. So as you learn words, be sure to note the genders.</div>
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You can use different colors for different genders, you can put them in charts, you can invent mnemonic devices, or you can do whatever else works for you—just be sure to do it.</div>
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I can’t stress how much aggravation this would have saved me if I had done this from the moment I started learning German. Even now, 20 years later, this is a question that I still ask myself all too frequently: “Oh crap, is that <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">der, die</em> or <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">das</em>?”</div>
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2. Learn the basic parts of speech</h3>
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Even after finishing my English grammar classes in high school, I would have been really hard-pressed to tell you the difference between a preposition, a participle, a prostitute and a pepperoncini. I wasn’t the brightest grammar student, in other words.</div>
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When I started to learn about German, though, those grammar ideas became a lot more important, and learning about them for German also helped me understand more about my native language, English.</div>
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You don’t need to know everything, though. If you’re unsure about the difference between a subordinating conjunction and a coordinating conjunction, you’ll probably be OK unless you’re a teacher or a grammar textbook author, and you’ll still probably have a decent shot at a fulfilling and romantic life.</div>
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But at a minimum, it’s best to brush up on these ideas:</div>
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<li style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.fluentu.com/german/blog/german-pronouns/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1cacec; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">pronoun</a></li>
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You should also familiarize yourself with the idea of an <strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">auxiliary verb</strong>, <strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">conjugation</strong> and the concept of <strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">tenses</strong>.</div>
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3. Monitor your progress and be consistent</h3>
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This actually applies to many aspects of language learning, but it can be especially important for learning the nuts and bolts of a language.</div>
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If you want to learn something new, you’ll have to dedicate time to it. The more time, the better, and the more consistent you are with that time, the better. But if you can only do 20 minutes a day, four days a week, that’s still probably more effective than 90 minutes in one breakneck German-cramming session. Your brain needs time to absorb what you’ve learned.</div>
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At the same time, record new vocabulary, new questions and new thoughts in some way. If you like to listen to music or <a href="http://www.fluentu.com/german/blog/classic-german-movies/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1cacec; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">watch classic movies</a>, you may still learn well, but most people find that by writing down new vocabulary words, for example, they retain a lot more of the new vocabulary that they’ve been learning. It also lets them monitor how far they’ve come and identify areas for future learning.</div>
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You Can Do It!</h2>
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That’s a bit of a cheesy heading title, but I wanted to leave you with a little more encouragement before you get out there and really tackle German grammar.</div>
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I may have joked some about German being difficult, and I certainly wouldn’t have been the first to do so. But look at it this way: German has about 100 million native speakers, in addition to another 120 million or so who speak it as a second or third language. And not a single one of them speaks it 100% perfectly.</div>
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So get out there and don’t be afraid to make mistakes while you’re learning.</div>
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I like his first example [PORSCHE] and also his final example [Der Name der Rose . . .(v, Umberto Eco)]. Well played, indeed.Deutsch.heutehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03244194879867228306noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68141745908859690.post-67517428240298584172016-10-08T19:28:00.002-07:002016-10-10T08:28:46.170-07:00It's All About that Base? [Nein!] About that CASE -- and Gender!Hier ist Herr Antrim schon wieder, aber wer singt? Singt er???<br />
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Prefix Verbs Explained – “ausmachen”</h1>
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and welcome to a new episode of German Prefix Verbs explained. And I
hope you’re concentrated because today we’ll look at one of the crazier
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<em><strong>A</strong></em><em><strong>us</strong></em> is one of the most productive productive prefixes out there and <em><strong>machen </strong></em>is one of the verbest verbs ever. Yeah, that made no sense. But hey, you all know how common <em><strong>machen</strong></em> is. It means<em><strong> to make</strong></em> and also <em><strong>to do, </strong></em>and as if that wasn’t enough it’s also often used as a fall back if other options are hard to find.<br />
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<li>Soll ich die Teller in die Kiste <em><strong>machen</strong></em>?</li>
<li>Should I <em><strong>put (“make”)</strong></em> the plates into the box?</li>
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This is not exactly beautiful language, but just recently I heard
someone say that. And I totally felt him. I was like “Yeah man. Make
that stuff into the box, man.” The thing is that neither <em><strong>stellen</strong></em> nor <em><strong>legen</strong></em> sound quite right there.<br />
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Anyways, back to our verb. The prefix <em><strong>aus</strong></em> can add two notions to a verb: <em>switched off-ness</em> and <em>outside-ness.</em> And guess which one it adds to<em><strong> machen</strong></em>.<br />
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Exactly: Both.<br />
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The first meaning of <em><strong>ausmachen</strong></em> is so
straight forward, a ray of light through space looks like a serpentine
road in comparison. Ugh… physics jokes. The black holes of humor.<br />
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So, the “<em>switched off”-</em><strong>aus</strong> combined with <em><strong>machen</strong></em> means: to<em><strong> switch off, turn off</strong></em>.<br />
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<li>Ich <em><strong>mache</strong></em> das Licht <em><strong>aus,</strong></em></li>
<li>I <em><strong>turn off</strong> </em>the light.
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German also has <em><strong>ausschalten</strong></em> and <em><strong>ausstellen </strong></em>and <em><strong>abschalten</strong></em> for that, but <em><strong>ausmachen</strong></em> is BY FAR the most common one. The only context in which it would sound odd is devices turning off themselves.<br />
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<li>Der Bildschirm <em><strong>macht</strong></em> sich selbst <em><strong>aus</strong></em>….<span style="color: red;"> NOPE!</span></li>
<li>The screen <em><strong>turns</strong> </em>itself <em><strong>off</strong></em>.</li>
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That sounds a bit like the screen has self awareness or something. Here, <em><strong> sich ausschalten</strong></em> or better yet<em><strong> ausgehen </strong></em>are the right choices. <em><strong>Ausmachen</strong></em> also doesn’t work in sense of turning off people, but for turning off devices of any kind, it’s the word to go for.<br />
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Cool. We’ll get back to this <em>switched-off-<strong>au</strong></em><strong>s</strong> in the epic finale, but first let’s look at the other strand, the<em><strong> ausmachen</strong></em> that is based on the <em>outside</em> idea of <em><strong>aus</strong></em>. Better buckle up because there’s some crazy stuff ahead.<br />
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“Ausmachen” and “seeing stuff”</h2>
The <em><strong>ausmachen</strong> </em>based on the outside-aus exists in English, too. <em><strong>Ausmachen</strong> </em>is <strong><em>to make out</em></strong>.<br />
Not the sexy, sometimes awkward but usually fun making out with someone, though. That’s NOT <em><strong>ausmachen</strong></em>. <em><strong>Ausmachen</strong></em> is the booooring <em><strong>to make out</strong></em> in the classic sense of making out something – as in recognizing stuff.<br />
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<li>Ich kann kaum einen Unterschied <em><strong>ausmachen</strong></em>.</li>
<li>I can barely <em><strong>make out/recogniz</strong></em>e a difference.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Die Wanderer konnten in der Ferne Rauch <em><strong>ausmachen</strong></em>.</li>
<li>The hikers could <em><strong>see/make out</strong> </em>smoke in the far distance.</li>
</ul>
Now you might be wondering what that has to do with the idea of <em>outside</em>?
Well, distinguishing something is in some way about making it stand out
from the rest. Like… you have this foggy forest on the horizon and your
perception, in that case the sense of vision, “carves out” the
deer that grazes in front of it. Definitely abstract but I hope it makes
sense.<br />
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Now, I feel like this <em><strong>making out</strong></em> isn’t all too common in spoken English. The German version is even less common. People would use<em><strong> erkennen</strong></em> or <em><strong>sehen.</strong></em><br />
<em><strong> </strong></em><br />
However, this idea of making out was the base for another meaning of <em><strong>ausmachen, </strong></em>one that is uber common: <em><strong>to agree on something</strong></em>.<br />
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Now you’re like <em>“Wait what? What does agreeing have to do with
recogniz… oh hold on, wait, is it because agreeing is like
recognizing common ground with someone?!”</em><br />
<em> </em><br />
And I’m just like <em>“Yeah dude. You’re spot on!”</em><br />
<em> </em><br />
That’s exactly how the meaning came about. Think of two people trying to make an appointment… they’re trying to<em> spot, make out</em> a slot that fits both their schedules. And this logic also explains why <em><strong>ausmachen</strong></em> does absolutely NOT work for <em><strong>to agree</strong></em> in sense of only one person agreeing. Like… “I agree.”<br />
<ul>
<li><em><strong>I agree.</strong></em></li>
<li>Ich mache aus… <span style="color: red;"><em><strong>make NOOOO sense at all</strong></em></span></li>
<li><em><strong>Ich stimme zu. </strong></em></li>
</ul>
<em><strong>Ausmachen</strong></em> doesn’t work here because there’s no trying to <em>make out</em> common ground. <em><strong>Ausmachen</strong></em> always involves two parties agreeing on something.<br />
But even though it’s not as broad as to agree, it still is super common
and it works for all kinds of small, informal or semi-formal agreements
in daily life.<br />
<ul>
<li>Wir müssen noch einen Termin<em><strong> ausmachen</strong></em>.</li>
<li>We still have <em><strong>to agree on/make</strong> </em>an appointment.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Thomas und Maria haben <em><strong>ausgemacht,</strong></em> dass immer derjenige abwaschen muss, der länger schläft.</li>
<li>Thomas and Maria <em><strong>agreed/made a deal</strong> </em>that it’s always the one who sleeps longer who has to do the dishes.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Das war so nicht a<em><strong>usgemacht.</strong></em></li>
<li>That is not what was <em><strong>agreed on</strong></em>.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Wir hatten <em><strong>ausgemacht,</strong></em> dass du mich anrufst, nicht umgekehrt.</li>
<li>The deal was/ we had<em><strong> said/agreed</strong></em> / that you call me, not the other way around</li>
</ul>
Really useful word.<br />
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And there’s more. So far, the <em><strong>ausmachen</strong></em> was kind of us looking for something. But it also works for the other side. Here’s an example.<br />
<ul>
<li>Was <em><strong>macht</strong> </em>einen guten Lehrer<em><strong> aus</strong></em>?</li>
<li>What <em><strong>defines</strong></em> a good teacher? What <em><strong>makes</strong></em> a teacher a good teacher?</li>
</ul>
Here, we’re asking for something that distinguishes a good teacher
from other teachers; some features that make a good teacher recognizable
within the horde of teachers. So we still totally have this idea of
distinguishing, recognizing only this time, it’s the
characteristics that “<em>make out”</em> the thing or person. They make it “make out”-able, if that makes sense. Here’s a couple more examples.<br />
<ul>
<li>Thomas hat alles, was einen guten Liebhaber<em><strong> ausmacht</strong></em>.</li>
<li>Thomas has everything that <em><strong>makes (for)/defines</strong></em> a good lover.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Stylisch, leicht und atmungsaktiv – das <em><strong>macht</strong> </em>eine gute Laufjacke <em><strong>aus</strong></em>.</li>
<li>Cool look, light weight and breathable – that’s what <em><strong>makes</strong></em> a good running jacket.</li>
</ul>
This meaning is not as useful as the one about the agreeing but you’ll definitely see it here and there.<br />
And it leads us to the next big idea of <em><strong>ausmachen</strong></em>…. yes, there’s another big idea. The idea of <em>effect</em>.<br />
<h2>
“ausmachen” and effect</h2>
It does need some mind yoga but the idea of being distinguishable,
recognizable, “make out”-able is not too far from the idea of <em>effect</em>.
An effect usually is recognizable and if you add a defining feature to
something, that does have an effect. Like… making your running jacket
light weight, good looking and breathable “has the effect that it’s
(recognizable as) a good running jacket.”<br />
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This broad, vague idea of effect is also part of <em><strong>ausmachen</strong></em>. And that’s no wonder, considering that <em><strong>ausmachen</strong></em> is actually kind of the literal translation for <em><strong>effect.</strong></em><br />
<em><strong> </strong></em><br />
Wait, what?!?!<br />
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Yup, you heard that right.<em><strong> Effect</strong></em> comes from Latin and it’s a combination of the prefix <em><strong>ex</strong></em> and the verb <strong><em>facere.</em></strong> <em><strong>Ex</strong> </em>means<em><strong> out</strong></em> (as in exit) and <em><strong>facere</strong></em> is Latin for…. <em><strong>to make, to do</strong></em>. Nice, right?<br />
But what does <em><strong>ausmachen</strong></em> do with the idea of<em> effect</em>? Like… how does it show?<br />
One use is to express that something makes a (usually big) difference, which is kind of also an effect.<br />
<ul>
<li>Es <em><strong>macht ganz schön viel aus</strong></em>, ob gute Musik im Café ist oder nicht.</li>
<li>It <em><strong>makes quite a difference</strong></em> if there’s good music at the café or not.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Krass, was so ein bisschen Farbe <em><strong>ausmacht.</strong></em></li>
<li>Crazy, what <em><strong>difference</strong></em> a bit of color <em><strong>makes</strong></em>. (what effect a bit of color has)</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Die Frisur <em><strong>macht</strong> </em>viel <strong><em>aus</em></strong>.</li>
<li>The hair do has a <strong><em>big effect/makes a big difference</em></strong>.</li>
</ul>
This is a nice to know phrasing, but what makes the effect-<strong><em>ausmachen</em></strong> really really useful is the more personal use. Here’s an example:<br />
<br />Taken literally, this means that something makes no difference for
me, has no effect on me. In practice, it’s only used for negative
effects.<br />
<ul>
<li>That doesn’t<span style="color: blue;"><em> “have a negative effe</em></span>ct” on me.</li>
</ul>
And you know what… we actually just went full circle: back to <em><strong>ausmachen</strong></em> in sense of <em><strong>to turn off</strong></em>. Because… <span style="color: blue;">h<em>aving a negative effec</em>t</span> and<span style="color: blue;"><em> turning off</em> </span>really do share some common ground.<br />
Anyway, the idiomatic translation for the example can be any of the following:<br />
<ul>
<li>Das <em><strong>macht</strong></em> mir <em><strong>nichts</strong> <strong>aus</strong></em>.</li>
<li>I <em><strong>don’t mind</strong></em> that.<br />
That doesn’t bother me.<br />
That doesn’t faze me.</li>
</ul>
Let’s look at some more examples.<br />
<ul>
<li>Die Hitze<em><strong> macht</strong> </em>mir nichts <em><strong>aus.</strong></em></li>
<li><span style="color: #33cccc;">Lit.: The heat does not<em><strong> turn off anything for/have a negative effect on</strong></em> me.</span></li>
<li>The heat doesn’t <em><strong>affect me/bother/faze</strong></em> me.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><em><strong>Würde es Ihnen (et)was ausmachen,</strong></em> wenn wir kurz das Radio ausmachen. Ich muss telefonieren.</li>
<li><em><strong>Would you you mind</strong></em> if we turn off the radio for a second. I need to make a phone call.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>“Schatz, <em><strong>wenn’s dir nichts ausmacht </strong></em>würde ich gerne kurz in den Second-Hand-Laden da gucken.”<br />
“Klar, wenn’s dir nichts <em><strong>ausmacht</strong></em>, dass ich mir ein Bier hole…”</li>
<li>“Honey,<em><strong> if you don’t mind </strong></em>I’d like to take a peek into that second hand store there.”<br />
“Sure, if you don’t <em><strong>mind</strong></em> me getting a beer…”</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><em><strong>Es macht mir nichts aus,</strong></em> viel zu arbeiten – solange es Spaß macht.</li>
<li><em><strong>I don’t mind</strong> </em>working a lot; as long as it’s fun.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Thomas dachte, es <em><strong>macht ihm nichts aus</strong></em>, wenn sich Maria mit anderen Männern trifft, aber es <em><strong>macht</strong></em> ihm sehr viel <em><strong>aus</strong></em>.</li>
<li>Thomas thought he’d <em><strong>be okay</strong> </em>with Maria meeting other men, but it does faze him quite a bit.</li>
</ul>
I know that the structure is a bit weird. With the <em><strong>es</strong></em> and the <em><strong>mir</strong></em>
all that. Definitely something to get used to. But the phrasing is
super mega common in daily life and it’s worth investing some time. Here
are a few fragments.<br />
<ul>
<li>[X] macht mir nichts aus.<br />
I don’t mind [X] / [X] doesn’t faze me.</li>
</ul>
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<li>Macht es dir/Ihnen was aus, wenn…<br />
Would you mind, if… </li>
<li>Ich hoffe, das macht dir nichts aus.<br />
I hope that’s okay with you</li>
<li> </li>
</div>
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I'll bet you're ready to try out some examples as an exercise. But wait, before we get to that, there’s one more thing we need to discuss… the r-version.<br />
<h2>
rausmachen</h2>
Just like most r-versions, the meaning of <em><strong>rausmachen</strong></em> is pretty much the literal combination of the prefix and the verb. <em><strong>Rausmachen</strong> </em>simply means “making” something that was inside before not be inside anymore after; or in real English: <em><strong>to remove, to take out</strong></em>. Why not <em><strong>rausnehmen</strong></em> then? Well, the result of <em><strong>nehmen</strong></em> (taking) is <em>having</em> and that’s not always the purpose of the taking out. Like… when you take out a tick it’s not because you want to <em>have</em> the tick. You just want it gone. And that’s what <em><strong>rausmachen</strong></em> is.<br />
<ul>
<li>Wenn man das Handy lange nicht benutzt, sollte man den Akku <em><strong>rausmachen</strong></em>.</li>
<li>If you don’t use the phone for a long time you should <em><strong>take out</strong> </em>the battery.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Was mich bei Facebook nervt, ist, dass ich immer das <em><strong>Häkchen</strong> </em>bei “Angemeldet bleiben”<em><strong> rausmachen</strong></em> muss.</li>
<li>What annoys me about Facebook is that I always have to<em><strong> untick the box</strong> </em>for “stay signed in”. (<span style="color: teal;"><em>lit.: “take out the little hook”)</em></span>
</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Maria hat letzte Nacht ihre Kontaktlinsen nicht <em><strong>rausgemach</strong></em>t. Jetzt hat sie gereizte Augen.</li>
<li>Maria didn’t <em><strong>take out</strong></em> her contacts last night. Now she has irritated eyes.
</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Kat <em><strong>rausmachen</strong></em> – merken das die Bullen?</li>
<li><em><strong>Taking out</strong></em> the catalyzer – will five-o (the cops) know?<br />
(<em><em>taken from a car tuning discussion board… and just for<br />
completion, taking it out is a crime: tax evasion of all things :)<br />
</em></em>
</li>
</ul>
<br /><em><strong>Rausmachen</strong></em> is really quite useful and I’m sure you’ll hear it sooner or later when you come to Germany.<br />
<br />
And by the way… it’s a good example why it makes sense to think of the <em>r-version</em> as a a category and NOT just think of it as a shortened her-version. Because when you look for <em><strong>herausmachen</strong></em> on Google you get like 20.000 hits, many of which are dictionary entries in various languages. For <em><strong>rausmachen</strong> </em>you get 10 times as many entries; and they’re actually real uses. Sure, <em><strong>rausmachen</strong></em> is a colloquial but hey, that’s how people speak. It’s called language, not penuage… get it? Get it? Ugh…<br />
<u>Anyway, calling it a “version” of<em><strong> herausmachen</strong> </em>wouldn’t do it justice.</u><br />
<u><br /></u>
<u>
</u><u>All right.</u><br />
<br />
And that’s it for today. This was our look at the meanings of <em><strong>ausmachen </strong></em>and phew, that was quite intense actually. First, we had the meaning of <em><strong>turning off</strong></em>,
then the idea of “seeing, recognizing” and the main meaning “to agree
on something” and then we had this whole stuff about having an effect,
making a difference and fazing someone, which we can think of as “being
clearly recognizable”… you know… just if we want to find some common
core for all of it :).<br />
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Schöne Woche euch und bis nächstes Mal.<br />
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<em><strong>** ausmachen – fact sheet **</strong></em></div>
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<em><strong>meanings:</strong></em><br />
<em> X ausmachen – turn off X (opposite: anmachen)</em><br />
<em> X ausmachen – make out (distinguish, recognize) X</em><br />
<em> X mit Y ausmachen – agree on X with Y</em><br />
<em> mir/dir/… etwas ausmachen – to faze someone, to mind</em></div>
<div style="padding-left: 60px;">
<em><strong>past:<br />
</strong>form of haben + ausgemacht</em><br />
<em> machte- … aus</em></div>
<div style="padding-left: 60px;">
<em><strong>other words:</strong></em><br />
<em> rummachen – to make out (sexual sense)</em><br />
<em> rausmachen – remove (from inside), take out</em></div>
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Und was bedeutet "Leichenwetter?" <br />
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<br />Deutsch.heutehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03244194879867228306noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68141745908859690.post-54754217295129315722016-10-08T06:15:00.003-07:002016-10-08T07:13:20.352-07:00Jöris Preisgewinner in DeutschlandAus Fayetteville, NC kommen Natalie und Nathan, die Gewinner des Joris-Wettbewerbs von Step Into German. Sie verbrachten eine unglaubliche Woche in Deutschland, worbei sie nicht nur Joris, sondern auch zwei weiteren Künstler Dyko und Bates (aka Norman Sinn) traffen.<br />
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<a href="http://www.goethe.de/ins/us/saf/prj/stg/mus/cop/enindex.htm">HIER IST DAS VIDEO DER REISE</a> <br />
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<br />Deutsch.heutehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03244194879867228306noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68141745908859690.post-44430887128903944582016-10-03T15:05:00.001-07:002016-10-03T15:18:30.530-07:00Deutsch JA Gespraech!<a href="http://deutsch-ja.blogspot.com.br/2013/04/gesprach.html">HIER SIEHT ES WIE BEI DEUTSCH-HEUTE AUS!</a><br />
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Gespraech von der Denise aus Leipzig. Auch mit Text dabei.<br />
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Fragen folgen.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; line-height: 17px;">Hallo mein Name ist Denise, Denise Hartmann. </span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; line-height: 17px;">Ich bin bald 16 Jahre alt und wohne in Leipzig. </span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; line-height: 17px;">Leipzig liegt im Bundesland Sachsen, etwa eine Stunde Autofahrt von Dresden. </span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; line-height: 17px;"><br /></span></span></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; line-height: 17px;">Jung sein in Leipzig ist meistens top. Es gibt aber auch Probleme. </span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; line-height: 17px;">Ein großes Problem zurzeit ist der Verkehr. </span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; line-height: 17px;">In der Innenstadt gibt es oft Staus </span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; line-height: 17px;">morgens von 6 bis 8 Uhr und abends von 16:30 Uhr bis 19 Uhr. </span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; line-height: 17px;">Da passieren auch viele Verkehrsunfälle und die Polizei,</span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; line-height: 17px;"> die Feuerwehr und der Rettungsdienst kommen.</span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;">Ab und zu </span></span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;">komm' ich sogar zu spät zur Schule, denn ich fahre meistens mit dem Bus.</span></span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;">Wenn das Wetter super ist, nehme ich aber das Fahrrad. </span></span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;">Dann radel' ich an der Elster lang, so heißt der Fluss hier. </span></span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;"><br /></span></span></span></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;">Bei uns beginnt die Schule sehr früh, schon um 7:30 , </span></span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;">da muss ich um 6:00 Uhr aufstehen. </span></span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;">Unterwegs treffe ich meine beste Freundin Emilia. </span></span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;">Wir besuchen beide das Friedrich-Schiller-Gymnasium. </span></span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;"><br /></span></span></span></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;">Die Schule liegt in der Altstadt, sie wurde 1994 gebaut.</span></span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;">Wir haben jeden Tag 6 Stunden Unterricht. </span></span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;">Meine Lieblingsfächer sind Mathematik und Französisch. </span></span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;"><br /></span></span></span></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;">Um 14 Uhr bin ich meistens wieder Zuhause. </span></span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;">Dann esse ich zu Mittag, mache meine Hausaufgaben, </span></span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;">surfe im Netz oder sehe fern. </span></span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;">Wenn ich Geld habe gehe ich ab und zu mit Emilia und anderen Freunden </span></span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;">--in die Disco oder ins Kino. </span></span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;">Manchmal sitzen wir nur irgendwo vor einem Jugendclub </span></span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;">-- oder einem Eis-Cafe und schauen dem Leben zu. </span></span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;">-- Shoppen ist übrigens auch spitze. </span></span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;">-- Wir haben viele tolle Geschäfte.</span></span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;"><br /></span></span></span></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;">Hier in Leipzig gibt es viele Sportvereine und wir können fast alle Arten von Sport treiben. Emilia und ich gehen jeden Samstag ins Schwimmbad, </span></span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;">denn wir Schwimmen beide sehr gerne. </span></span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;">Unsere Fußballmannschaft Lokomotive Leipzig ist klasse. </span></span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;">Ich sehe viele Heimspiele und unser Stadion ist wirklich toll.</span></span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;">Ich glaube sogar wir haben das größte Stadion Deutschlands. </span></span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;"><br /></span></span></span></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;">Die Altstadt ist sehr schön wenn mann ein Bummel durch die Stadt macht, </span></span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;">sieht man fast an jeder Ecke ein neues Haus oder eine Baustelle.</span></span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;">Genau wie in Dresden wird fast alles renoviert. </span></span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;">Jedes Jahr kommen viele Touristen, denn es gibt ja auch Sehenswürdigkeiten, </span></span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;">wie die Thomas-Kirche, das alte Rathaus und das Völkerschlacht-Denkmal. </span></span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;"><br /></span></span></span></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;">Wir haben auch viele Messen, denn Leipzig ist eine Messen-Stadt</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;">.</span></span></span></span><br />
<br />Deutsch.heutehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03244194879867228306noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68141745908859690.post-62048544494626713962016-10-02T07:18:00.000-07:002016-10-02T07:18:09.306-07:00Schulsachen kaufen mit Top Tap TubeWas ist UHU?<br />
Was kann Tintenkiller nur sein?<br />
Was muss man alles für die Schule kaufen?<br />
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Wenn der Mond über dem Friedhof steht<br />Und der Wärter seine Runde geht<br />Dann ist es endlich Mitternacht<br />Das ist die Zeit wenn der Vampir erwacht<br /><br />Er liebt den Mondschein und die<b> Gruft </b> <span style="font-size: x-small;"> (<b>Gruft,</b> -¨e = vault; crypt)</span><br />Und auch die kalte Friedhofsluft<br />Und immer nach dem letzten Gong<br />Singt er seinen Friedhofs-Song<br /><br />Und wenn der Mond am Himmel steht<br />Und wenn die Turmuhr zwölf schlägt<br />Dann kommt die Zeit wo der Vampir erwacht<br />Und dann fliegt er durch die schwarze Nacht<br />Und kaum ein Mensch hat ihn gesehen<br />Denn wenn die anderen schlafen gehen<br />Dann kommt die Zeit wo der Vampir erwacht<br /><br />Ein Vampir braucht immer frisches Blut<br />und fühlt sich dann erst wirklich gut<br />Wenn er davon viel getrunken hat<br />Erst nach 3, 4 Litern ist er richtig satt<br /><br />Er liebt die Gräber und die Gruft<br />und auch die kalte Friedhofsluft<br />Und er will nicht wie die Menschen sein<br />Denn er ist ein Vampir von Schlotterstein<br />Ja er ist ein Vampir von SchlottersteinDeutsch.heutehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03244194879867228306noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68141745908859690.post-62456398657619764532016-09-30T20:13:00.000-07:002016-09-30T20:13:07.531-07:00Die Ärzte - zu Halloween: Das finde ich gut Animation<br />
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Nimm meine Hand und werde glücklich!<br />
Denn endlich ist endlich unendlich.<br />
Da hinten ist das Licht<br />
Ich steuere die Fähre durch das Nichts<br />
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All deine Sünden sind dir vergeben,<br />
Denn hier weiß keiner, was Sünde ist<br />
All deine Ängste kannst du lassen,<br />
Und du wirst nie wieder hassen.<br />
Und auch nichts missen.<br />
Du kannst alles vergessen.<br />
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<span>Nichts ist mehr gut oder wichtig.</span><br /><span>
Es gibt kein Schlecht und auch kein Richtig.</span><br /><span>
Keine Wünsche bleiben offen,</span><br /><span>
Denn du brauchst auch nichts mehr zu hoffen.</span><br />
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Nimm meine Hand und werde glücklich!</span><br /><span>
Denn endlich ist endlich unendlich.</span><br /><span>
Du siehst kein Gesicht,</span><br /><span>
Kein jüngstes Gericht,</span><br /><span>
Fühlst kein Gewicht,</span><br /><span>
-- Geh einfach ins Licht!</span>Deutsch.heutehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03244194879867228306noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68141745908859690.post-15622825257392611422016-09-30T20:02:00.001-07:002016-09-30T20:02:34.513-07:00Nene - am 4. Oktober in NYC! Genau jetzt ... manchmal zu früh, manchmal zu spät<br />
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Hier im Video sehen wir Nena mit ihrer Tochter (Larissa, 24) und auch ihrer Mutter (Ursula Grieben,74). <span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: purple;"><i> Das finde ich schön. --rsb</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">Vielleicht ist es zu spät<br />Vielleicht ist es zu früh<br />Vielleicht ist es genau jetzt ://<br /><br /> Genau jetzt</span><br /><br />Ein Moment<br />Zwei Personen<br />Eine Seele<br />Ein Herz<br />Zwei Personen<br />Ein Moment<br />Zwei Meinungen<br />Ein Ende<br /><br />Manchmal sind zwei Eins<br />Und manchmal sind zwei Zwei<br />Manchmal heisst es "Hallo"<br />Und manchmal heißt es "Bye bye"<br />Bye bye<br /><br />REFRAIN<br /><br />Genau jetzt<br />Im Moment<br />Was Morgen kommt weiß keiner<br />Leb jetzt im Moment<br />Wenn du auf die Fresse fällst steh auf und<br />Lauf weiter<br /><br />Der Moment in dem es entsteht<br />Der Moment in dem es zerfällt<br />Der Moment wo ein Fremder ein Freund wird<br />Oder ein Freund so fremd<br />So fremd<br /><br />REFRAINDeutsch.heutehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03244194879867228306noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68141745908859690.post-19002162539166808832016-09-30T14:25:00.000-07:002016-09-30T14:25:22.630-07:00Valenin Moeller aus Leipzig hilft uns besser schlafenSo kann man besser schlafen . . .<br />
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<i><span style="color: purple;">Welche Ideen findest du neu und besonders behilflich? </span></i><br />
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<i><span style="color: purple;">Die Ein- und Aus-Atmen Technik von Andrew Weil habe ich selber oft versucht. Valentin hat Recht, es hat mir ein paar mal ganz entspannt.</span></i>Deutsch.heutehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03244194879867228306noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68141745908859690.post-2370600726959990262016-09-30T13:35:00.001-07:002016-09-30T13:35:15.334-07:00Describing PeopleTeddylingua Wie sieht sie aus? Wer ist sie?<br />
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auf - neben - vor - zwischen an darauf ueber <br />
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der Baustein<br />
der Boden<br />
der Kaktus<br />
der Nachttisch<br />
der Schreibtisch<br />
der Schrank<br />
der Hocker<br />
der Teppich<br />
der Teddybaer<br />
der Kopfkissen<br />
der Hund<br />
der Stern<br />
der Spiegel<br />
der Becher<br />
der Dinosaurier<br />
der Mantel<br />
der Sessel<br />
der Ball<br />
der Vorhang<br />
der Muelleimer<br />
der Korb<br />
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die Tapete<br />
die Tuer<br />
die Lampe<br />
die Kommode<br />
die Schere<br />
die Palme<br />
die Katze<br />
die Schildkroete<br />
die Uhr<br />
die Gitarre<br />
die Bank<br />
die Wandgarderobe<br />
die Teekanne<br />
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das Bett<br />
das Bild<br />
das Fenster (mit Rollo)<br />
das Schaukelpferd<br />
das Regal<br />
das Sofa<br />
das Buch<br />
das Kuscheltier<br />
das Feuerwehrauto<br />
das Auto<br />
das Toepfchen<br />
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die Pflanzen<br />
die Stuehle<br />
die Bilder<br />
die Tassen<br />
die Kirschen<br />
die Schier<br />
die Taschen<br />
die Stiften<br />
die Bausteine<br />
die SchuheDeutsch.heutehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03244194879867228306noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68141745908859690.post-4552194991949888542016-09-30T12:52:00.001-07:002016-09-30T12:52:54.286-07:003. Oktober feiern die Deutschen jetzt den Tag der Deutschen EinheitDanke, Herr Antrim.<br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">6. Bürger der BRD feierten ihren Nationalfeiertag am</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1990 in </span><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0080; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Berlin, Nationalhauptstadt </span></a></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1991 in </span><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamburg" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0080; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hamburg,</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Landeshauptstadt der </span><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freie_Hansestadt_Bremen" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0080; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Freien Hansestadt Hamburg</span></a></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1992 in </span><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwerin" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0080; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Schwerin</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">,</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Landeshauptstadt </span><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mecklenburg-Vorpommern" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0080; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mecklenburg-Vorpommerns</span></a></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1993 in </span><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saarbr%C3%BCcken" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0080; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Saarbrücken</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, Landeshauptstadt des </span><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saarland" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0080; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Saarlandes</span></a></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1994 in </span><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bremen" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0080; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bremen</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Landeshauptstadt der </span><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freie_Hansestadt_Bremen" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0080; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Freien Hansestadt Bremen</span></a></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1995 in </span><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%BCsseldorf" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0080; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Düsseldorf</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">,</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Landeshauptstadt </span><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordrhein-Westfalen" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0080; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Nordrhein-Westfalens</span></a></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1997 in </span><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuttgart" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0080; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Stuttgart</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">,</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Landeshauptstadt </span><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baden-W%C3%BCrttemberg" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0080; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Baden-Württembergs</span></a></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1998 in </span><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannover" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0080; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hannover</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, Landeshauptstadt </span><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niedersachsen" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0080; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Niedersachsens</span></a></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1999 in </span><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiesbaden" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0080; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Wiesbaden</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, Landeshauptstadt </span><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hessen" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0080; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hessens</span></a></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2000 in </span><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dresden" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0080; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dresden</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, Landeshauptstadt </span><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sachsen" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0080; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sachsens</span></a></div>
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<li dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: -25px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2001 in </span><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mainz" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0080; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mainz</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, Landeshauptstadt von </span><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rheinland-Pfalz" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0080; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Rheinland-Pfalz</span></a></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2002 in</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0080; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Berlin</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0080; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Nationalhauptstadt </span></a></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2003 in </span><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magdeburg" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0080; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Magdeburg</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, Landeshauptstadt </span><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sachsen-Anhalt" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0080; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sachsen-Anhalts</span></a></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2004 in </span><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erfurt" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0080; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Erfurt</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, Landeshauptstadt </span><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%BCringen" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0080; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Thüringens</span></a></div>
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<li dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: -21px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2005 in </span><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potsdam" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0080; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Potsdam</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, Landeshauptstadt </span><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandenburg" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0080; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Brandenburgs</span></a></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2006 in </span><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiel" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0080; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kiel</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, Landeshauptstadt </span><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schleswig-Holstein" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0080; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Schleswig-Holsteins</span></a></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2007 in </span><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwerin" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0080; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Schwerin</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">,</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Landeshauptstadt </span><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mecklenburg-Vorpommern" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0080; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mecklenburg-Vorpommerns</span></a></div>
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<li dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: -21px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2008 in</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamburg" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0080; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hamburg</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0080; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">,</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Landeshauptstadt der </span><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freie_Hansestadt_Bremen" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0080; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Freien Hansestadt Hamburg</span></a></div>
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<li dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: -21px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2009 in </span><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saarbr%C3%BCcken" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0080; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Saarbrücken</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, Landeshauptstadt des </span><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saarland" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0080; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Saarlandes</span></a></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2010 in </span><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bremen" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0080; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bremen</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">,</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Landeshauptstadt der </span><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freie_Hansestadt_Bremen" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0080; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Freien Hansestadt Bremen</span></a></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2011 in </span><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonn" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0080; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bonn</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">,</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonn#Bundesstadt" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0080; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bundesstadt</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Deutschlands, </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #980000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> [ Bundeshauptstadt von 1949 bis 1990, </span><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordrhein-Westfalen" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #980000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Nordrhein-Westfalen ]</span></a></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2012 in </span><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%BCnchen" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0080; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">München</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, Landeshauptstadt </span><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayern" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0080; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bayerns</span></a></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2013 in </span><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuttgart" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0080; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Stuttgart</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">,</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Landeshauptstadt </span><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baden-W%C3%BCrttemberg" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0080; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Baden-Württembergs</span></a></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2014 in </span><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannover" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0080; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hannover</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, Landeshauptstadt </span><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niedersachsen" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0080; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Niedersachsens</span></a></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2015 in </span><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt_am_Main" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0080; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Frankfurt am Main</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, größte Stadt in </span><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hessen" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0080; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hessen</span></a></div>
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<li dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: -21px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2016 in </span><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dresden" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0080; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dresden</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, Landeshauptstadt </span><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sachsen" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0080; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sachsens</span></a></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2017 geplant in </span><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mainz" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0080; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mainz</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">,</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.333333333333332px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Landeshauptstadt von </span><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rheinland-Pfalz" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0080; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.333333333333332px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Rheinland-Pfalz</span></a></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">13. In wie vielen Landeshauptstädte wurde der neue Nationalfeiertag, </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> der</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Tag der deutschen Einheit,</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> nie gefeiert? _______________________________</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">14. Es wurde in 2 Städte gefeiert, die heute keine Hauptstädte sind. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Welche Städte sind sie? Warum wurde es dort gefeiert? </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> __________________________ ________________________________________________</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">15. Dieser Nationaltag wurde schon in 9 Hauptstädten zweimal gefeiert. In welchen (7) Länderhauptstädte </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> gab es bis jetzt </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.2; text-indent: -9pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">nur eine einzige Feier? </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> _____________________ ______________________ _____________________ ___________________</span></div>
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Deutsch.heutehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03244194879867228306noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68141745908859690.post-16985463659698245402016-09-30T08:45:00.000-07:002016-09-30T08:48:39.551-07:00Winds of Change....Klaus Meine - Scorpions - singt <br />
auf Englisch, aber hier ist der Text auf Deutsch<br />
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<span style="color: purple;">Wer weiss: <i>Wie alt ist dieses Lied??? </i></span><br />
<span style="color: purple;"><i><br /></i></span>
<span style="color: purple;"><i>Interview hier!</i></span><br />
<span style="color: purple;"><i><br /></i></span>
<span style="color: purple;"><i><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/U5i4idoTny4" width="560"></iframe> </i></span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;"><i>(Mit Unbreakable fingen sie an. Hier, im 2010, feiert die Band ihr 33. Jahr.) </i></span>Deutsch.heutehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03244194879867228306noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68141745908859690.post-86984683485997774732016-09-29T13:09:00.000-07:002016-09-29T13:09:54.405-07:00USA 4th; GERMANY 1st: US NEWS and World Report: Annual Country RankingsAnd the results?<br />
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U.S. News & World Report ranks Germany #1<br />
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Germany is viewed as the overall "best country."<br />
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The home to Europe's largest economy is seen as the top country for encouraging<br />
entrepreneurship, and is highly regarded for providing global leadership and<br />
caring for its citizens.<br />
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Its leader, Chancellor Angela Merkel, whom both the Financial Times and Time magazine named as their Person of the Year for 2015, has actively led her government to confront some of the world's most pressing challenges, such as the Greek debt crisis and the waves of immigrants sweeping<br />
across Europe.<br />
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Germany rose from the ashes of World War II to become Europe's foremost power<br />
and a world leader in many areas, not least of which is its economic prowess founded on its network of small and medium businesses known as "Mittlestand."<br />
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The country is seen as a model for the way in which it trains workers in apprenticeships following secondary school education.<br />
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The United States, the world's greatest military power and largest economy, ranks fourth, trailing not only Germany but Canada and the United Kingdom, as well.<br />
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Canada, which recently elected a new liberal government under Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, is rated highly on quality of life issues and transparency, while the U.K. is seen as an influential country that is the best nation to obtain an education.<br />
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<i><span style="font-size: xx-small;">J.D. GUY- Massachusetts AATG</span></i>Deutsch.heutehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03244194879867228306noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68141745908859690.post-13273414144942082132016-09-29T13:08:00.002-07:002016-09-29T13:08:55.161-07:00Eco Mission -- Name a new Planet!<h1 style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; color: #a0c814; font-family: ClanWebPro-NarrMedium, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 38.0038px; font-weight: normal; height: 130px; line-height: 38.7639px; margin: 18px 22px 22px 0px; max-width: 511px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; text-transform: uppercase; zoom: 1;">
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Exploring a new planet, solving STEM puzzles and learning German: the new educational game "Eco-Mission" combines it all!<br /> </div>
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Together with the German robot Franz, players embark on an adventure to the newly discovered Earth-like planet. The goal of the game is to prepare this new planet for human habitation while remaining as environmentally-friendly possible – thus ensuring the planet remains habitable for generations to come. Along the way, players will face the many challenges of a strange new world.<br /><br />"Eco-Mission" is an educational game for German as a foreign language at the A1 level, and it features STEM mini-games based on the work of real-world scientists and engineers.<br /><br />"Eco-Mission" has been developed by Wits Interactive in editorial collaboration with the Goethe-Institut .</div>
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Be part of the development process of the game by helping us find a name for the new planet. The best name will be awarded with an iPad! The deadline for submissions is September 30, 2016. </div>
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Wunderbar, unsere Klima wird wärmer.<br />
Mich wunderte, dass sich so viel drüber ärgern..<br />
Ich weiß nicht, was soll daran schlecht sein, wenn es heiß ist...<br />
Es ist mir klar, für andere ist dann Land unter...<br />
Aber ich wandere entspannt zum Strand runter...<br />
Mich erschüttert nichts, weder See- noch Erdbeben,<br />
Sollen die Wissenschaftler doch blöd weiter daher reden.<br />
Es gab Eiszeiten, Dürren, und Kriege entbranten,<br />
Krankheiten wurden versiegt und verschwanden,<br />
Mensch hat bislang alles überstanden<br />
was bedeutet dann ein Klimawandel? <br />
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