tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60162491462795371612024-03-19T14:03:48.552-07:00German III - Herr QuinnGerman III - Herr Quinn
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Look at the list I've excerpted below, written by Liv Hambrett, an Australian who's spent several years in Germany. A German friend shared this with me. While generalizations are, naturally, never universal, she and other German friends (and I) all think that this is a pretty spot-on list. Look it over and come ready to identify attributes that might affect this question - Was macht und wie macht man eine gute Beziehung aus? Bei uns? In Deutschland?</div>
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(from) "What I know about Germans" by Liv Hambrett<br />
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<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.714285714; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Germans are tall.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.714285714; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">They enjoy dairy products. The refrigerated section of their supermarkets are homages to experimentations with yoghurt and quark. They will put a cheese or cream-based sauce with most things.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.714285714; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Sauerkraut is both enjoyed and oft consumed, as per the universal expectation.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.714285714; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">But the cabbage thing doesn’t stop there. Both krautsalat and rotkohl are regular meal (and döner) companions, the latter readily available in the frozen section of your local supermarket.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.714285714; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Germans have excellent winter wardrobes (perhaps because German winters are endless.)</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.714285714; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">They are punctual. It’s in their genetic make up. They cannot be late.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.714285714; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In fact, Germans place an enormous premium on the three Ps – Practicality, Punctuality and Planning.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.714285714; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Their babies are particularly beautiful.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.714285714; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">They are very good bike riders – nay, they are exceptional bike riders. They manage to look elegant while free-wheeling down cobbled streets, pashminas blowing out behind them. They are also highly adept at riding with umbrellas.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.714285714; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Thus, German kids learn to ride young. They start in small wagons attached to their parents’ bicycles and move through the ranks until, at 6 years old, they are fully fledged members of the cycling community.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.714285714; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Germans can eat. And drink. A lot. They have excellent constitutions.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.714285714; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">They love meat. In all its incarnations. Raw, fried, crumbed and dripping in mushroom sauce. But mostly, processed and stuffed into stomach lining.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.714285714; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Germans worship wurst.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.714285714; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Germans worship the pig. He is revered as both a lucky (Glücksschwein) and delicious little fellow in this country and there is no part of the pig that cannot be boiled, shredded, fried, processed, mashed, diced and consumed. And there is no end to the various pig likenesses that can be crafted from marzipan.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.714285714; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">They can and do, often, stomach minced raw pork for breakfast … topped with onion and a bit of pepper.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.714285714; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">They are good at mostly anything they do. Or, if they’re not, they try hard and become competent. Because …</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.714285714; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Germans are thorough. They seem to live by the ‘do it once and do it well’ principle. They work hard and effectively, despite working some of the shortest hours in the western world.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.714285714; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Consequently, they are the strongest economy in Europe. What they do during those short hours is probably double what every other country manages to do in twice the time.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.714285714; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">For many Germans, the weekend begins at 1pm on Friday afternoon. The week’s work has been done and done well and now it is time to enjoy the spoils of a well-spent weekend.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.714285714; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">They speak English better than most English people I know, or at least get their ‘there, they’re and their’ correct every time which is more than many English speakers can say.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.714285714; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">They have unexpectedly wicked senses of humour. David Hasselhoff, anyone?</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.714285714; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">They love a good boot.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.714285714; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">And they never scuff them. Even when bike-riding down a cobbled street in the rain, holding the shopping and an umbrella, pulling a wagon behind them with a child contained within.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.714285714; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">They do not suffer fools gladly, thus only put up with drunk Australians and Americans during Oktoberfest because we’ll pay hideous amounts of money for hideous amounts of beer.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.714285714; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">They are extremely hospitable.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.714285714; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Germans simply do not understand thongs/flip flops/jandals as viable footwear. Even when it’s warm and sunny, and a boot is impractical or too warm for the feet to be comfortable. Outside of a very small, very obviously Summer window, they will stare, bewildered, at thonged feet and quietly wonder if the wearer is mad.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.714285714; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">They love a large, mind-bogglingly well stocked hardware store (with a bratwurst stand out the front). Perhaps because another mantra of the Germans could be; if you want something done well, do it yourself. Therefore they must be permanently well equipped to do things themselves, like renovate apartments with the help of a good friend and a few beers.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.714285714; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Germans lose their <i>minds</i> when the sun comes out and act in a manner I can only describe as suspicious. They flock to outdoor cafes and tip their faces to the sun … but remain in boots and jeans with a pashmina close by. Even when it’s 25 degrees. Even when it’s obvious the weather isn’t going to turn. Because …</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.714285714; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Germans are always prepared for the rain.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.714285714; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">They are very fair people and largely adhere to regulations that exist to keep things fair for the masses.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.714285714; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">This works because Germans love a good rule. And they reap the benefits of a rule-abiding society.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.714285714; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">They don’t appreciate the use of the rude finger when driving. If you give it to a fellow driver, that driver reserves the right to report you and your licence plate and you will get a fine.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.714285714; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Not that it will break the bank – fines for breaking road rules here are, on average, about 30€. When rules aren’t that often broken, you don’t need large rule-breaking deterrents.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.714285714; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">They love the breakfast meal and fill the table with four different types of cheese, five different types of meat and a basket of bread rolls.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.714285714; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">As a general bread rule, Germans seem to enjoy a darker or seeded bread. Or at least bread with a long name that nods to exciting contents.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.714285714; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In the same vein of their love for enormous hardware stores, Germans favour a mesmerisingly large Ikea (and other such stores in the same vein as Ikea) complete with an upstairs restaurant, a downstairs cafe and the all important bratwurst stand out the front. Because …</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.714285714; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Germans can always enjoy a bratwurst, no matter the time, no matter the place. And they never seem to drip the sauce all over themselves.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.714285714; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Germans don’t jay-walk. And they judge those who do with a piercing, back-burning gaze.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.714285714; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">They are refreshingly comfortable with nudity. The further East you go, the more apparent this becomes.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.714285714; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Germans are generally candid, frank people.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.714285714; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">German men don’t <em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">tend</em> to leer lewdly.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.714285714; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">But, Germans stare. Not in a way designed to be particularly rude, but in an unabashed, piercing, inquisitive way that makes you wonder if you have food on your face or your skirt is tucked into your underpants.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.714285714; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Germans love doing Kaffe und Kuchen for all sorts of occasions.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.714285714; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Collectively, German people seem to have a very sweet tooth and the cake, biscuit, chocolate, sweets aisles of their supermarket are of Willy Wonka proportions.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.714285714;">They don’t necessarily say it to you face, at the time … but Germans don’t like it when you go against the tide in the supermarket.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.714285714; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Or get on the bus through the wrong door. This they will say to your face, using a microphone and an unimpressed tone.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.714285714; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">If there was a study done on countries and how well they dance in a club/bar situation, Germany probably wouldn’t be in the top ten for general skill. But would they would absolutely ace the enthusiasm component.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.714285714; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Germans struggle enormously with the concept of ‘naked feet’. It is better feet be clothed at all times.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.714285714; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Germans, largely, are always exceptionally well groomed.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.714285714; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">They embrace one hit wonders. Royalties from German radio probably single-handedly keep the singers the rest of the world wants to forget, in rent-money.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.714285714; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Germans are not afraid to whip out the smoke machine on the dance floor.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.714285714; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">They are not ones to make small talk at the supermarket check-out. Or in general, really.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.714285714; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In fact, Germans hate small talk. Words without purpose are wasted words.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.714285714; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">This is because Germans are generally extremely direct people. They do not see a need for conversational subtext. They say it as they see it, while keeping you at the appropriate arm’s length distance. Directness and distance are valued social commodities.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.714285714; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Apropos, Germans will always try and shake your hand, even if you feel you’ve reached the status of hugging.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.714285714; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">But when you crash through those notorious barriers, you have a German pal for life.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.714285714; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Germans enjoy frozen vegetables.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.714285714; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Germans are generally very open and relaxed about most things sex related.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.714285714; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">They have the single most nerve-wrackingly rapid supermarket check-outs in the world.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.714285714; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Germans seem to really enjoy watching (dubbed) How I Met Your Mother, Two and a Half Men and The Big Bang Theory.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.714285714; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">And reading crime fiction.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.714285714; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">They love their dogs. Often their dogs catch the bus with them and sometimes their dogs even dine with them in restaurants.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.714285714; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Germans. Love. Bakeries.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.714285714; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">They don’t tend to go to the shops in track-pants and slippers.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.714285714; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It saddens me to report there seems to be a higher instance of socks and sandals paired together in Germany, than in other countries.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.714285714; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Germans seem to be distrustful of any beverage that doesn’t sparkle and, despite having excellent tap water, relegate it to second best beneath the bottled, sparkling stuff.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.714285714; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">They also seem to enjoy mixing drinks. For example, their beloved cola/orange soft drink – Spezi, Schwip Schwap, Mezzo Mix. And the truly excellent Apfelschorle, apple juice and sparkling water. And why stop at white wine spritzers when you can have a red wine spritzer?</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.714285714;">Germans like buying drinks in six packs of 1.5l bottles which are then dutifully recycled, bottle by bottle.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.714285714; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It is extremely rare to see a German throw out a recyclable bottle and, if they do (in the midst of a brain-snap) someone passing by the rubbish bin will very quickly pull the bottle out and take it to the recycling automat themselves.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.714285714; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">During large events (festivals, Summer grilling bonanzas) there will be people making serious money by collecting revellers’ beer bottles.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.714285714; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">They aren’t big on bread slicing. Sliced bread, ‘toast brot’, is relegated to the toaster and sandwiches made with sliced bread enjoy a disproportionately small section of the bakery display in comparison to their friends, the brötchen.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.714285714; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Germans love Dackels (Dachshunds) and seem to own several of them at once. Perhaps this adoration of Dachshunds stems from their physical similarity to wurst.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.714285714; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Germans extract a curiously large amount of pleasure from the acts of giving, receiving and processing paperwork. They revel in it. Photocopy it. Sign it. Photocopy it again. Roll in it. Cover themselves with it and inhale the scent of paper.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.714285714; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Those who work for the German government seem to … never work at all. It’s like their entire system is efficient enough to work by itself, without humans doing anything except photocopying and stamping things.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.714285714; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Some German banks take lunch breaks which is unfortunate because many working people can only do their banking in their own lunch breaks.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.714285714; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Germany loves a public holiday. Bavaria in particular.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.714285714; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Germans have this … thing … with bureaucracy.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.714285714;">They are rather thrifty and don’t have the weird Anglo qualms with talking about money.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.714285714; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Germans seem to enjoy camping and driving campervans through Europe.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.714285714; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">They are bizarrely superstitious about wishing people a Merry Christmas too early, opening presents early and celebrating birthdays early.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.714285714; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Germans have bottomless basements.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.714285714; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Germans. Love. Football. Love it. In fact the most passionate you will ever see a German is when they are watching, talking about, thinking about, dreaming about or playing, football.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.714285714; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">You may also catch a German in an act of passion if you raise the topic of cars. Germans love their cars and are very proud of their ability to make such good ones. Just ask them.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.714285714; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It is a good thing they have good cars and an Autobahn of terrifying speed because the Deutsche Bahn is Germany’s dirty little inefficient secret. Delays comes with your ticket purchase, free of charge. It’s DB’s gift to you.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.714285714; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Most Germans seem to always buy or possess the appropriate public transport tickets, even though there are so many occasions upon which they could get away with not having one. This sense of honesty will eventually rub off on you.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.714285714; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Germans of a certain age really enjoy Jack Wolfskin jackets. Come Winter, Germany turns into a sea of identical jackets, people’s age distinguishable only by the brand they’re wearing.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.714285714; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">There is an obvious divide when it comes to what kind of high school you went to and what kind of leaving certificate you gained. And what kind of further education you go on to do, whether it be university for an extremely long period of time – honestly, no one does university quite like the Germans – or one of Germany’s millions of Ausbildungen (apprenticeships).</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.714285714; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The whole country quivers with excitement every New Years Eve when they sit down and watch Dinner for One. But the supremely odd thing isn’t a national obsession with a 1960s black and white sketch comedy from another country that has nothing to do with New Years Eve, but the fact that this is the one film the Germans don’t dub.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.714285714; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Germans have this thing with online privacy. It is a rare German indeed who uses their full name on Facebook as opposed to a bizarre cross section of their first and last names, eg: Mo Na Berg or Le Na.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.714285714;">Should you not have a garden, but yearn for one, you can rent a small square of land called a Kleingarten (or Schrebergarten). Here you can cultivate a garden and sit back and enjoy the fruits of their labours by resting in a little hut. The Kleingärten (small gardens) are kept neat by the adherence to a set of rules specifically developed by and for each community.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.714285714; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In the average German garden, big or small, you will notice they seem unable to resist the lure of the garden gnome. There is almost always one, lurking sinisterly beneath a bush, or partaking in some sort of Mise-en-scène with other concrete characters and a perfectly clipped shrub.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.714285714; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Stefan Raab. He owns Germany.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.714285714; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Germans are inordinately proud of their states, districts, district-free cities, city states, regions, sub-regions, dialects, entirely different vocabularies, sub-cultures, traditions, festivals and basically being really different from the ten-house village that is 5km away because that ten-house village is in an entirely different region and therefore nothing like this village.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.714285714; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Generally speaking, Germans simply love celebrating.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.714285714; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">And dressing up.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.714285714; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">And that dastardly Schlager music which they all know the words to.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.714285714; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Often all three passions are combined at an inexplicable pop-up festival that features, without exception, the following: medieval beer stalls, a pommes stand and a wagon with a dazzling array of sugared nuts, waffles and chocolate covered baked goods.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.714285714; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">And Spargel. They love Spargel and anything to do with Spargel, like Spargel peelers and Spargel steamers and Spargel platters. Forget Christmas or Easter or any other notable markers, the German year revolves around Spargelzeit.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.714285714; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Germany has assumed the döner kebab as a national dish, Germanified it with pickled cabbage and elevated it to where it now sits, loftily, alongside other key German snacks like currywurst and fischbrötchen.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.714285714; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Germans largely respect ‘Quiet Time’ on Sundays, when they don’t vacuum, use lawn mowers or other loud appliances and generally keep noise levels to a bare minimum. In some parts, an unspoken evening Quiet Time is enforced, via disapproval or neighbourly note leaving.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.714285714; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Church bells are exempt from all Quiet Times.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.714285714; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">As ingrained in the German psyche as Quiet Time on Sunday, is the Sunday viewing of crime show, Tatort.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.714285714; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Germans have really embraced the organic food trend and dedicate shelves to products emblazoned with ‘BIO’.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.714285714; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Germans make loyal, warm, life-long friends.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.714285714; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">German television seems to produce a startling array of game shows very close to – but not quite the same as – ‘Who Wants to be a Millionaire?’</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.714285714; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">They like saying ‘juhu!’</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.714285714; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">While they may borrow the concepts for their solid repertoire of scripted reality TV, the German population yields the strangest, most awkward characters in the entire genre.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.714285714; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Germans can have entire conversations that consist solely of the word ‘doch’.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Occasionally they replace ‘doch’ with ‘eben’, if it fits, grammatically.</li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.714285714; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">They like buffets.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.714285714; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">And ‘house shoes.’</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.714285714; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Germans seem to enjoy bringing activities to the park, when the weather is fine. Things like wooden blocks to throw around and rope to tie between trees as a sort of make-shift tightrope.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.714285714; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">They like drinking yoghurt.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.714285714; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">They can eat enormous sausages clamped between very small bread rolls, smothered in sauce, while walking and talking, and not getting a drop of it on themselves.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.714285714; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Germans make for extremely excitable sports commentators.</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It is always too hot, too cold, too windy, too warm, too humid, too snowy or too rainy.</li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Germans blame 95% of ailments on the weather.</li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">They may be the only people in the world to a) have a word for and b) accept the notion of ‘<em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Frühjahresmüdigkeit</em>‘ – ‘Spring time fatigue’.</li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">On that note, no one does a compound word like the Germans.</li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Germans like going to Ikea just to eat hotdogs.</li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">No matter where you go – to a festival, on a road trip, to a sporting event – you will find a clean public toilet.</li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Contrary to all evidence pointing to a socially restrained and reserved people, Germans are actually quite excitable.</li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">They are extremely good natured when it comes to laughing at themselves (and accepting lists like the very one you’re reading.)</li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Meals with Germans can be quite quiet affairs, the participants seeming to adhere to the unspoken rule of Eat Now, Talk Later.</li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Many Bavarians have enormous moustaches.</li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The mullet is alive and well in Germany.</li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">As per Point 111 – Germans Like House Shoes – many Germans seem to choose a pair of fake Crocs both for themselves and their children, as a general house/garden shoe.</li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Many, <em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">many</em> Germans (and, to be fair, Dutch people) seem to love camping, camper-vans, camping grounds, and holidays that combine all three in a country like France or Italy.</li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Germans love their ‘hobbies’.</li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A favoured hobby seems to be hiking.</li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Indeed, Germans enjoy walking in general, particularly after a meal, or indeed on a quiet Sunday afternoon (in pairs, wearing matching Jack Wolfskins).</li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Tchibo.</li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Germans are, surprisingly, rather enthusiastic applauders. They especially seem to enjoy falling into the rhythmic clap, while performers are taking their bows.</li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I have noticed Germans seem to enjoy ‘seasonal decorations’ for their front doors, doorsteps, gardens etc. A floral wreath for Spring, a twiggy one for Autumn (along with pumpkins and red leaves), your classic evergreen conifer for Christmas. Und. So. Weiter.</li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In keeping with their love of all things ornamental, Germans <em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">really </em>seem to like home decor stores, ranging from the kitsch (Nanu Nana, Butlers) to the positively chic (any store that’s name features the words ‘Lebensart’ or ‘Landart’).</li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">You will never actually see a German doctor at the appointed time. That famous German punctuality doesn’t exist in medical practices.</li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">At many social gatherings, you will find a plate of cheese cubes and grapes, held together with a toothpick.</li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Germans and their pharmacies have a lot of faith in the healing powers of homeopathy and herbal teas.</li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Speaking of teas, Germans enjoy fruit teas immensely, including flavours such as ‘strawberry and cream’ or ‘blueberry yoghurt’.</li>
<li style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; padding: 5px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Germans love being in, strolling and/or hiking through, or just flat out enjoying, ‘the nature’.</li>
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<em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">This list (at the time numbering 78 points) ran over at <a href="http://www.uberlin.co.uk/what-i-know-about-germans/" style="border: 0px; color: #6987ff; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Überlin </a>in 2012 and for a reason no one will ever understand, went viral. Then it went viral again, in 2013. The enormous response to the list has thus far included over 100,000 likes on Facebook (IMAGINE!) mentions on the Facebook pages of Stern, Bild.de and Financial Times Deutschland, a write up in the Swiss paper, Tages-Anzeiger, and listings on all manner of forums and other sites. And <strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">that’s </strong>why we made a book!</em></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05155992938211063654noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6016249146279537161.post-7043591834091327472015-08-25T12:28:00.001-07:002015-08-25T19:10:53.808-07:0027.8.http://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/158063/umfrage/kriterien-fuer-enge-freunde/Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05155992938211063654noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6016249146279537161.post-52719037366462295222015-08-08T20:11:00.001-07:002015-08-08T20:11:56.208-07:00Hallo und eure iPadsHallo Leute!<br />
The new year is upon us. Hope the summer was great and that you are thoroughly pumped for the beginning of a new school year. We will be using the iPads extensively this year, which will involve you installing several apps for class. Below is the list of the apps I'll require (for now) - the number will probably grow.<br />
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<a href="http://itunes.apple.com/de/app/leo-worterbuch/id396838427?mt=8" target="_blank">Leo German/English Dictionary</a><br />
<a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dict.cc-dictionary/id327732352?mt=8#" target="_blank">dict.cc German/English Dictionary</a><br />
<a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/edpuzzle/id919598209" target="_blank">EDpuzzle</a><br />
<a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/socrative-student/id477618130?mt=8#" target="_blank">Socrative Student</a><br />
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The following two are note-taking apps. Try them both and see which one you like. I think the first is a bit easier or writing, but the second one can convert your handwriting into digital text.<br />
<a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/penultimate/id354098826?mt=8#" target="_blank">Penultimate</a><br />
<a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/myscript-memo/id446368116?mt=8#" target="_blank">MyScript Memo</a><br />
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<a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sketchio/id438548543?mt=8#" target="_blank">Sketchio</a> - Digital white board<br />
<a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quizlet/id546473125#" target="_blank">Quizlet</a> - Great flash card app<br />
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<a href="https://itunes.apple.com/de/app/lernabenteuer-deutsch-das/id480129579?mt=8#" target="_blank">Himmelscheibe</a> - a fun, if challenging, mystery game from the Goethe Institut.<br />
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Again, there will probably be more, but we will be using most of these very soon.<br />
Froh, dass du hier bist und fangen wir an!<br />
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