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Anecdotes

Top Ten Tongue Twisters

Known as “Zungenbrecher” in German (literally “jaw breakers!), tongue twisters are a fantastic way to really test your German pronunciation skills. See …

Cliché

    „Berliner sind faul und ungepflegt“  –  People from Berlin are lazy and scruffy. ,,Hamburger sind unterkĂŒhlt und selbstverliebt” – People from …

10 German Stereotypes

Although stereotypes are generalisations and often very simplified, they can form expectations about people and situations making life more predictable and easier to …

Funny Language

You know you’re German when… … You say “beforeyesterday” (vorgestern) and “overtomorrow” (ĂŒbermorgen) instead of “the day before yesterday” and “the day …

About German

What do you call a pissed off German?   – Sauerkraut. What do you call a Blind German?    -A Not see “Two …

Politics

General The photograph was originally part of a “silent interview” for the Sueddeutsche Zeitung newspaper, in which people are asked to respond …