The demand for learning German has been rising steadily. A few weeks ago, I read an article about Spaniards queuing for nine hours to sign up for a German course in Madrid. Surely, Mark Twain would not have been one of them.
But how do you say blog in German? This and a few others terms were contemplated by Anna Sauerbrey in her article how-do-you-say-blog-in-german.html in the NYTimes. If I did not throw in a few English words here and there such as mein Blog, I’d have to call this mein digitales Netztagebuch. Or when talking about apps, they’d be called Anwendungen für mobile Endgeräte.
Linguistic borrowing is also on the rise.
Recently, the Duden added 5.000 words to its latest edition, many of them originating from English.
I’ve set up the page Learn German just for fun. I like German words like Kummerspeck, Hungerturm and Schadenfreude.
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