Tage in Tirol mit Tah

This is a different kind of week, with a little more origin story about how I ended up in Innsbruck. The short answer is I got married to an Austrian from Tirol. The longer story is hopefully interesting enough to read for you. If not, and your mind begins to wander, feel free to look at some of the pics and skip to the German exercise at the end which is about prepositions or Präpositionen in German. One of my favorite views in Innsbruck, near  Markthalle As time passes, it's strange to see different similarities with my parents. Maybe you've experienced this too, with your smile, how you talk about money, or how you might not be able to handel beans. In my case, I find myself in their language-learning shoes when I moved to Austria in 2019. I’m a daughter of two immigrant parents who moved from South America to the US and learned English along the way. Despite having Spanish-speaking parents, my younger-shyer self never quiet learned how to speak the language. ...

Hello and good day to you all! Did you have a good morning? Are you getting outside and getting that vitamin D from the sun? I hope you are healthy and ready for part 3 of our conjurations! First, let's do a small recap of what we've done in part 1 and part 2. In  Part 1 of Conjunctions , we spoke about coordinating conjunctions which allow you to combine two sentences with  und ,  oder ,  aber ,  dann ,  sondern  or  doch . With these sentences, you follow the normal sentence structure with the verb in 2nd position for both of them as seen below: Coordinating Conjunction Example (verb 2nd position for both) Ich  esse  fish  und  du  trinkst   Milch. (I eat fish and you drink milk.) In Part 2 of Conjunctions we learned about subordinating conjunctions which combine two sentences with words like weil , wenn , während , seit , bevor , obwohl and damit . In this situation, one sentence depends on the other ...

Hallo Freunde! Hello and welcome to another Tuesday post. Today will be a little bit different and it will be a short and sweet review on German Learning online application called Seedlang ! Some background about me so you can understand where I am coming from when reviewing this app. I've moved to Austria in 2019 and before that I started learning German casually a year before. That means some Duolingo, a small group of friends who were learning, and an online Udemy course. I didn't listen to media outside of those avenues. One thing that I didn't do was hold any conversations with people in German. When coming to Innsbruck, it was a big shock to see how much I didn't understand and more of a shock, how limited I was in expressing myself. Once I started some German courses in person and getting a hang of the grammar and talking, I noticed that my small vocabulary was limiting conversation. And this is where I was lucky enough to find Seedlang! I've been usi...

It's time to take the next step in our relationship... with conjunctions! Welcome back to those who have been following along in this German-learning journey and welcome to those reading this blog for the first time. Last week in Part 1 of Conjunctions , we spoke about coordinating conjunctions which allow you to combine two sentences with either und , oder , aber , dann , sondern and doch . When you put these sentences together, the nice thing is that the normal sentence structure with the verb in 2nd position doesn't change for both of them. Both of them are stand alone statements as seen below: Coordinating Conjunction Example (verb 2nd position for both): Ich mag dich und  du magst   mich. (I like you and you like me.) Today, instead of coordinating Conjunctions, we will look at  Subjunctions or Subordinating Conjunctions or in German,  Subjunktionen . This type of conjunction connects sentences, while one of these sentences can stand alone, the other sen...

During these very interesting times in the pandemic, maybe you would like to write to your German speaking friends about life or maybe you would like to write a comment on YouTube, Instagram, or blog in German? Now is the time! I believe in you and why not also strive to make bigger sentences? Are you ready to take your sentences to the next level? Then   we will dive into the ocean of conjunctions   and  learn how to swim in this sea. Yes, this was beautifully hand-crafted by me. *'diving' of laughter* What are conjunctions? In German they are called  Konjunktionen and you use these special words to combine 2 sentences. Have you seen the three 'and' words and one 'or' above? These are conjunctions, specifically coordinating conjunction (Konjunktionen) . The rule for combining these two sentences are simple, you keep the standard verb in second position rule for the first and second sentence as you can see below. ... verb 2nd position ... (,) ...

What do you appreciate more during this quarantine (for those who have one)? Around this time until the end of April - for now, those of us that live in Tirol, Austria are asked to only leave the house for the following reasons below. to go to work - um zur Arbeit zu gehen to shop - zum Einkaufen zu gehen to help other people - un anderen Menschen zu helfen for individual sports and for walking - für Individualsport und zum Spazieren For those curious and interested,  Tiroler Tageszeitung Live-Blog zu Coronavirus  is where I find many updates for those that live in Tirol, including important numbers to know and the latest updates for Tirol and around the world. For example: Translated by Google Translate For today I'd like to share a few sentences that might be handy during this time. Note that most of these are informal, and some even a little more casual. Wanna talk? - Möchtest du sprechen? Do you want to Skype/WhatApp? - Möchtest du skypen/whats...

Which of the three Level B1 verbs to decide on? Sometimes when we learn a language, we learn a new very cool word from class or book or friend and are excited to try it out. Then that glorious moment comes for you to use that word with a native speaker, and after you say it, you ask, "Is that how you use the word ...?" Sometimes you get back, "genau" or depending on how impressiv your feat was, maybe a look of wonder. Sometimes, however, you get that hesitant look accompanied with a pause and something like, "Weeeeeeell, I wouldn't necessarily use that word in this situation, I would rather say ... .". (And thank you out there to all those native speakers willing to help us out!) Today we will look at these three words - beschließen, entschließen, entscheiden - and unravel some of the ways we can use them in the sense of 'deciding'. Two websites that have been very helpful for German learning also helped this process. The first is  LEO (h...