German in Germany 🇩🇪 and Austria 🇦🇹 can vary, even with everyday words 🍻🌭
Fun fact: In Vienna, people don’t actually say “Wiener Würstchen”!
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👅 German Tongue Twister:
„Wenn Hessen in Essen Essen essen,
essen Hessen Essen in Essen.“
Hessen = people from the state of Hesse
Essen = city in Germany
Essen = food
essen = to eat 🍽️
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📚 Word of the Week: schaffen
Means create, manage, or succeed.
⚠️ Schaffen has two past tenses – the meaning decides which one to use.
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⚠️ False Friends Friday
Some words look the same… but mean very different things!
🇩🇪 Chef = boss 👔
🇬🇧 chef = Koch 👨🍳
👇 What other false friends have you stumbled over?
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⛪ Die Kirche im Dorf lassen = to not exaggerate (literally “to leave the church in the village”)
🧠 Origin: “Kirche�� is the community, not the building. Taking a church parade beyond the village limits is an exaggeration.
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