While I wrote my last article about empathy, I remembered that Robin Williams talked with a gorilla once! I thought to myself: If Robin Williams can communicate with a gorilla, why do we sometimes struggle to communicate with other people? Attribution: The Gorilla Foundation In this article I want to introduce to you the gorilla lady named Koko, who I find very fascinating, tell you about Koko’s and Robin Williams’ encounter, since it is a very moving story, convey to you why this is so inspiring for somebody who learns a language.
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Robin Williams Spoke With a Gorilla! And How This Can Inspire Us To Learn a Language
How To Learn German With Empathy
It is often said that music is a universal language — and it is. But even more important is empathy, I think — the ability to put oneself in other people’s shoes. Why do we learn languages? Of course, we like the challenge and it’s fun to train your brain. In addition, many hope for better job opportunities. But basically we want to just communicate with more people after all.
The Basketball Game That Almost Ended a Friendship (Funny German Expressions)
Have you ever heard or read a German expression and wondered: What is that supposed to mean? The Germans have a crazy language! That’s true, some phrases sound very strange. We Germans aren’t aware of that at all unless we translate them literally. Those bad translations is incredibly entertaining! I have read some of them to my friends and we were in fits of laughter [we laughed us broken]! 😀
How To Live a Better Life
One reason why I enjoy helping German learners is that they have made the conscious decision to improve their lives. I think that is outright admirable! I always enjoy helping those kind of people! 😀 What This Is About In this article I want to give you some tips how you can improve your live in other areas. In doing so I don’t want to claim to be an expert or make it seem like I think I know it all.
Learn German and You'll Find Love (and Friendships)
Today I want to share with you a perspective, which will give you even more motivation to learn German. Did you know that by studying German you are super awesome in the eyes of potential partners and friends? 😉 First, I’d like to show you the possibilities that studying German brings. There are an incredible number of people who speak German! Then I want to tell you my story, so you can learn from my mistakes.
You Will Never Learn German Unless You Do This One Thing
Today I want to talk with you about something without which learning German is impossible. You can do what you want, but without this essential ingredient you won’t come far. It doesn’t matter at all which tools and which method you use. You see, you also need a certain mindset when you want to learn a language. It is very important to me that you will actually be able to speak German fluently in the near future!
Top 10 Most Famous Germans According To Twitter
Discover the most famous Germans according to Twitter! From Gutenberg's printing revolution to Beethoven's iconic compositions, explore German expressions, music, and history in this captivating blog post.
Five Tips To Get Germans To Speak German
A Common Problem 5 Easy Tips Tip 1: Have Empathy Tip 2: Ask Them Nicely Tip 3: Just Speak German Tip 4: Let Them Use Both Languages Tip 5: Stay Sympathetic A Common Problem Recently I mentioned the problem on twitter, that many Germans just don’t speak German with German learners, but switch to English very quickly. This tweet was very popular, that’s why I now want to give you five tips to solve this problem.
How Little Itomi Learned English
This article describes my mental image of Itomi’s story. It could have happened like this or similarly. Here you can read for yourself how Prof. Krashen tells the story. How Little Itomi Left Her Home Country Itomi was just a four year old girl, when her parents took her along to the USA in 1974. Her father was a worker at a Japanese Company, which was also doing business in the United States.
Why I Am Scared
Have You Ever Experienced This? I am scared to help you with you German. Isn’t that weird? Have you ever had that experience of wanting to do something, but constantly procrastinated because you were afraid of criticism? Because you were afraid of what other people might think? I started all this because I had the opportunity to find a great teacher, who taught me a lot of Italian. He inspired me and gave me much entertainment to boot.
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