03/19/19
Meaning of "Lars kam sich unendlich verlassen vor"?
I'm reading *Kleiner Eisbär, wohin fährst du?* von Hans de Beer but I'm puzzled by this sentence:> Lars kam sich unendlich verlassen vor.If *verlassen* is a reflexive verb as the word *sich*...
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03/19/19
Why are the German and French languages so different?
My understanding (which could be wrong) is the following:
During and before the period of the fall of western Rome (roughly 400 AD), the Franks and the Alemanni were tribal people who moved...
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How to say "I come from Beijing, China" in German?
I am learning German now, I just learned how to say "where do you come from?" in German. I can say "I come from Beijing, China" in English, and I may say "Ich komme aus Beijing. Ich komme aus...
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03/18/19
How does a salesclerk in England welcome a customer and ask what they want?
When you go to a bakery in England in the afternoon, and you are not a familiar customer, how does the salesperson greet you, and how do they ask what you would like?
“Good afternoon, sir. How may...
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Use definite article or not in conjunction with a German institution's name which contains a strongly declined article?
Picture some German university's arthistory department, and its official title would be "Kunsthistorisches Institut". "Kunsthistorisch" is an adjective, and "kunsthistorisches" is its nominative...
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03/18/19
How do I say something is the superlative of a group in German?
What is the correct German way for the English construction involving identifying the superlative in a group? For instance
> Lake Michigan is the largest of the Great Lakes?
or
> It was...
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Die machen kein Problem für dich or "die sind kein Problem für dich"?
When I want to say
> So they're no problem for you.
in German, which of the two sentences is (more) correct or common?
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I was talking about the two special German words, "Sie"...
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06/06/18
how best to elicit meaning and form (from English as a foreign language students ) using the phrase ''What does....mean?'' as an example??
The question asks me to write a production activity that teaches the phrase ' What does ... mean?' to foreign students.
I need to elicit meaning form and pronunciation from students but i am...
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