Archive for the ‘Culturally German’ Category

An Musical concert with Robert Delanoff

The following are photos from the “für reinhard schulz” concert in München. The music was not exactly to my taste. I found it rather angry, depressed and scary. The first 2 tracks seemed like they fell off the end of an x-files soundtrack because they were too scary! My girlfriend was highly engaged throughout the [...]

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Things to do in Munich

Join the AFL team: http://kangaroos.aflg.de/new_roos/index.php (I can’t believe it!) Browse the toytowngermany.com site for: cheap/FREE IKEA furniture. Social Events, dancing bike riding, sailing trips etc. News on Munich Info on gaining visas, tax, bureaucracy etc.. Go cook with random people: jumpingdinner.de Oktoberfest (derrr) Go to the alps and clime a mountain! Surf on the river [...]

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Oktoberfest 09

I’ve experienced nothing else that comes close to Oktoberfest.. It’s like a massive theme park with rides and kids stuff on one side, and about 10 beer tents (buildings) on the other side. I actually pictured more circus type tents with lots of grass.. but it was more like a massive plane hangers full of [...]

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Germans Don’t know German

It gives me great confidence to know that Germans constantly get stuff wrong… and everyone speaks and sounds different to each other. A long standing question of mine is how to say “Ich” (I) which I recently found can be pronounced “ick”, “Itch”, “Ichhhh”. I always thought it was the last one, but the flat [...]

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Was sagst du? (DE lingo)

You can now click the link on the right column under Dans Links that will show you the phrases and words I’m learning in German (Dans German Phrases) This is not a complete list, but something handy that I keep with me to practice. You may find it useful to. I have a few people [...]

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Bavarian Ads on Facebook

I think this means something about finding a Munich girl in a Beer garden that’s single.. can anyone else offer a better translation? I find it funny that all these ads are the same in diff countries…. except… Would the equivalent be “Find Aussie girls down at the pub cooking you up a BBQ” Perhaps: [...]

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The night life

Sitting in the flat feeling guilty for not getting much done in my day was depressing. The choice to stay in ALL day and night or go out at night became easy. I had planned to go to an outdoor swing session in the mall near Marienplatz but it was raining. Eventually I realised that [...]

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Cheap German meal!

1 Flasche Rot Wein: €1.99 1 Brotchen: ,40c 1 Dose Gulaschsuppe: €1.29 Total meal: 3.68 Spending time talking in German, eating and drinking German food… priceless!

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