Germy the German Germ!

Although I expected this video to be about learning German, I am happy to learn about how the body works from such a cute wee German Germ. Enjoy!

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It’s my party and I’ll wein if I want to…

Hello out there in Verständnis World. I hope you’re all enjoying the rapid onset of my very first European summer. Well, today you have even more reason to celebrate, as it’s my birthday! While I’m not celebrating it in traditional NZ style - with fairy bread and cheerio sausages, and a game [...]

International Air Travel: a Deutschlisch Exposition (video)

I’ve decided to treat you with double-video action, since ‘Black Sunday’ (aka the day we shall not mention. For those not in Europe, Spain won the UEFA 2008 Cup. Tear.)
Since I’ve been travelling, I’ve noticed a couple of things. I thought I’d share them – Miss V-style! Enjoy this journey into the world of [...]

Fußball vs. fútbol… it’s on.

While I prepare the red, yellow and black face paints for Sunday, check out hamburg.de’s coverage of the 2008 Fanfest in Hamburg’s very own Heiligengeistfeld. There was dancing, there was laughter, there were (almost) tears… check out the tense moment at 1:10.
Go Deutschland!

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Polyglotastic!

I’ve just had word that the biggest (or only?) Polyglot Scrabble Tournament in the world is taking place this year in Spain. This is apparently the first event of its kind, where the world’s most cunning linguists can meet and defeat, playing Scrabble in many different languages. And they are promoting it so [...]

Are you UEFA-Savvy?

All of Europe is abuzz with Euro 2008 fever. Being a novice when it comes to most things football (or soccer, as we Kiwis say), I wasn’t surprised to get a measly 64% on this soccer quiz. Whether it’s because of my extreme lack of football knowledge or sucky German, I can’t say.
Can [...]

Sister Cities’ personals site: found!

Remember last week when I was joking about towns seeking partners on an online personals site? Well, it exists! And here’s the link!
My favourite is Coventry, Rhode Island, which makes sure it doesn’t get lost amongst all the other Coventrys of the world with: “There are a number of Coventrys in the US. This [...]

Miss V’s Top 5 list of Mega Cool things about Germany (video)

I share my favourite five things about Deutschland with you, the lucky viewer. What are yours?

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Cool kids learn Deutsch!

Feeling pretty pleased with myself for learning German right now… I was just reading that the Steinke institute in Bonn has come up with a fancy-schmancy formula to convert the Gross National Product of a country in 2025 into its power within the world, and therefore the importance of its language. And guess [...]

Who knew Hamburg and Auckland were related?

Doing a little research into German-New Zealand relations (the things I do for you!), I found out that Auckland, New Zealand boasts li’l ol’ Hamburg as one of its sister cities. In fact, Germany actually pioneered the concept of sister cities/twin towns/friendship towns.
It’s kind of interesting to see each language’s slight twist on thisidea. [...]