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Take me to your Umlauts!

By David Bergmann

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Take me to your Umlauts!

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We have ways of making you talk ... German! In 1996, David Bergmann voluntarily moved from Chicago to Germany (the country of his 32 great- great-great-grandparents). His mission: a year- abroad to go "back to the roots" - both physically and linguistically. Since then he has come to terms (well, almost) with the past-tense, cute yet tough "Umlauts", powerful prefixes, "Doinglisch", idiosyn-cratic idioms, and the twelve (or was that thirteen?) possible plural-forms. Furthermore, he has tackled the eternal questions posed by native English speakers of "How do you ,du'?", "Where's my Fahrvergnu?gen?", and "Der, die, WAS?!". Through it all, he has both confused and amused the natives. But most importantly, he discovers that German is not at all an awful language - as Mark Twain once mistakenly wrote - but rather an awfully cool one!
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
224
Release Date:
2012-04-16
Publication Date:
2012-04-30
Publisher:
Blaupause Books
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
393349818X
ISBN13:
9783933498182
Weight:
349 g
Height:
139 cm
Width:
208 cm
Thickness:
25 cm

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