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Ten Ways to Get Paid for Traveling to Germany. Become an Au Pair Travel plus children plus a host family to help you through the culture shock and the paperwork?

Ten Ways to Get Paid for Traveling to Germany

Yes please! The perks of coming to Germany as an au pair are many fold, not the least of which are that you will get to learn about German culture as a tourist and as the member of a German family. If you’re lucky, your host family just might take you on vacation with them too. Read the first-hand stories of people who have come to Germany as au pairs here and here. Become an English Teacher If you have strong English skills, teaching others those skills might be your best bet to get paid for living in and exploring a Germany city. How US students get a university degree for free in Germany. While the cost of college education in the US has reached record highs, Germany has abandoned tuition fees altogether for German and international students alike.

How US students get a university degree for free in Germany

An increasing number of Americans are taking advantage and saving tens of thousands of dollars to get their degrees. In a kitchen in rural South Carolina one night, Hunter Bliss told his mother he wanted to apply to university in Germany. Amy Hall chuckled, dismissed it, and told him he could go if he got in. "When he got accepted I burst into tears," says Amy, a single mother.

Basic Chart. German adjective endings. The famous writer Mark Twain already used to make fun of the phenomenon of German adjective endings.

German adjective endings

Please keep reading, if you do not want to become just as desperate about it as he was ... Every time I had to teach the German adjective endings I was really happy that I already learned it as a child just by heart; so, today I "just know" how it works. This topic is one of the most difficult of the basic German grammar, and I have never known a student who hasn't struggled with it. I'm not surprised! Very often we, teachers, give our students simply 3 or 4 tables, which they have to learn by heart. At the beginning of the intermediate level, it can happen that the textbooks simply provide 3 or 4 tables “to remind”. Table 1: German adjektiv endings with the defined article (der, die, das ...) Table 2: German adjektiv endings with the undefined article "ein" Table 3: German adjektiv endings without article.

Ten Inventions You Didn’t Know Came From Germany - Young Germany. Coffee Filters German housewife Melitta Bentz is responsible for the 1908 invention of the coffee filter used today by caffeine addicts the world over.

Ten Inventions You Didn’t Know Came From Germany - Young Germany

The Binary Number System Binary is a base-2 numeral system used by almost all modern computers. Think of it as a language of numbers in which all of the words are comprised of combinations of ones and zeroes. It was invented by Gottfried Leibniz in 1679. Petri Dish The little dish used by doctors and lab workers to culture cells was invented by German bacteriologist Julius Richard Petri in the late 1800s.

Office Supplies Germans invented both the hole punch, the ring binder (both by Friedrich Soennecken, 1800s), the glue stick (company Henkel, 1969), and tape (Beiersdorf AG/Oscar Troplowitz, 1901). The Accordion, Harmonica, and Clarinet. Speak German, Yoda Would. Posted on 05.

Speak German, Yoda Would

Nov, 2014 by Malachi Rempen in Language Learning One of the most challenging aspects of speaking German in day-to-day life is this whole verb-at-the-end-of-the-sentence business. The Most Common Language Spoken in Your State, Besides English and Spanish - Mic. The news: Despite growing efforts to make English the official language of the U.S., America's linguistic landscape is only becoming more multifaceted and diverse every year.

The Most Common Language Spoken in Your State, Besides English and Spanish - Mic

According to the 2011 American Community Survey, more than 60 million people, or a full one-fifth of the American population, speak something other than English at home, and that number has steadily increased over the past decade. So what are the languages that are most frequently spoken in the U.S.? Slate's Ben Blatt put together a map to illustrate which non-English languages Americans speak at home, and, surprise, surprise, the vast majority of the country — 43 states — is dominated by Spanish-speakers. Image Credit: Slate But a more interesting question is: What is the most common language spoken in each state, apart from English or Spanish?

German compound words – Animal Names. Funny and bizarre German animal names The German language is famous for some really long nouns (Donaudampfschiffahrtsgesellschaftskapitän comes to mind).

German compound words – Animal Names

This is because German nouns, verbs, prepositions and adjectives are like lego bricks; you can stick them together in almost any way to create new words that encapsulate new concepts. This gives the language a special ability to name just about anything. MELTA - the Munich English Language Teachers Association. Excelsiorradio. Deutscher Wortschatz - Portal. Language Trainers. Excelsiorradio. Englisch - Deutsch Wörterbuch - leo.org: Startseite. Schon seit einiger Zeit arbeiten wir an einer neuen Version der Wörterbuchseite und sind jetzt soweit, dass wir sie Ihnen vorstellen möchten - natürlich verbunden mit der Bitte um konstruktive Kritik und Fehlermeldungen.

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