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How is the German chancellor elected? 2021 edition

On September 26, 2021, the Germans will go to the polls to decide who will run the country for the next four years. There are plenty of informed articles on the dynamics of the 2021 election (e.g., “What You Need

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How is the German chancellor elected? 2017 edition

On September 24, 2017, the Germans will go to the polls to decide who will run the country for the next four years. There are plenty of informed articles on the dynamics of the 2017 election (e.g., “Germans on the

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Schleswig-Holstein in Kürze 1 – Deutsche Welle Video

Schleswig-Holstein Video mit Übungen

Waren Sie schon einmal im nördlichsten Bundesland Deutschlands? In diesem Video von Deutsche Welle lernt man Schleswig-Holstein ein bisschen kennen. Es gibt 3 Übungen zum Schleswig-Holstein Video. Video-Übung 1 ist am leichtesten. Hier konzentrieren Sie sich hauptsächlich auf das Sehen. Bei

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Schleswig-Holstein in Kürze 3 – Deutsche Welle Video

Schleswig-Holstein Video mit Übungen

Waren Sie schon einmal im nördlichsten Bundesland Deutschlands? In diesem Video von Deutsche Welle lernt man Schleswig-Holstein ein bisschen kennen. zurück zu Video-Übung 1 – zurück zu Video-Übung 2 – Video-Übung 3 Öffnen Sie das Video in einem neuen Fenster. zurück

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Schleswig-Holstein in Kürze 2 – Deutsche Welle Video

Schleswig-Holstein Video mit Übungen

Waren Sie schon einmal im nördlichsten Bundesland Deutschlands? In diesem Video von Deutsche Welle lernt man Schleswig-Holstein ein bisschen kennen. zurück zu Video-Übung 1 – Video-Übung 2 – weiter zu Video-Übung 3. Öffnen Sie das Video in einem neuen Fenster. zurück

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8 Things about Max und Moritz

Ach was muß man oft von bösen Kindern hören oder lesen! Wie zum Beispiel hier von diesen, Welche Max und Moritz hießen. This year marks the 150th anniversary of the children’s book Max und Moritz: Eine Bubengeschichte in sieben Streichen, which

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Working with German numbers: Children and day care in Germany

DESTATIS just recently published a report on day care participation in Germany. The text, graphic and data table reveal some interesting trends.

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Top 10 career paths in Germany

In the process of developing a teaching unit for next semester on Studium und Beruf, I came across the latest statistics of the German Federal Statistics Office (Statistisches Bundesamt) on the most popular career paths among young Germans and compiled

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More free German Christmas ebooks

Yesterday I posted some links to free German ebooks with a Christmas theme. Today a few of the twelve books I posted about are no longer free. But here are a few more that are free today that were not

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Free German Christmas books to download

In my search for Christmas-themed German language texts, I stumbled across several free downloadable ebooks. The following German Christmas ebooks are free as of this posting and can be downloaded from Amazon. They are in Kindle format, but you don’t

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