I was so caught up in the excitement of the book this week, that I didn’t get around to writing an Englisch Macht Spaß post. But that’s okay, because someone… Continue Reading

Prepositions are nasty little things that, quite unfortunately, are rather important when learning a language. I trip up with German prepositions pretty much every single time, so I know how… Continue Reading

There has been something doing the rounds of the internet for a while, you may have seen it. It’s called English is a Crazy Language and is, essentially, a humorous, lovingly written ‘rant’ by Richard… Continue Reading

Do you remember, back at school, when you’d walk into the classroom and see a TV set up and you’d know, with a surge of joy, today’s class was going… Continue Reading

Hello and welcome to this week’s Englisch Macht Spaß (so much spaß.) You’re going to need a coffee for this one (in a good way) because we’re dealing with some slippery… Continue Reading

Hello there … … and welcome to this week’s Englisch Macht Spaß! We took a little break last week, because I was off gadding about the Czech Republic. I have… Continue Reading

When I first started teaching English as a foreign language in Germany, I noticed a particular question would keep popping up when I would pronounce or spell a word, or… Continue Reading

Last week, we spoke about the future, more specifically the differences between ‘will’, ‘going to’, Present Continuous, and Present Simple. It is probably worth glancing back over last week’s lesson… Continue Reading

Will + Going to + Present Continuous + Present Simple = Future Got your cup of tea/coffee/glass of wine? Let’s go! Think about this – in English, you can have… Continue Reading

It’s that time of the week again, time to get yourself sorted with a cup of tea or coffee/glass of wine, and dive back into the world of the delightfully… Continue Reading

Gooooood morning and welcome, once more, to Englisch Macht Spaß. Before we get started I just want to thank you all for your response to this series – on Facebook,… Continue Reading

Hello and welcome to this week’s Englisch Macht Spass. Got your tea/coffee/glass of wine? Good, let’s go. A lot of the ‘what does … mean?’ questions I get asked are… Continue Reading

Good morning and welcome to Englisch Macht Spaß, a weekly post on all things learning English. If you’re reading this, you’re either an EFL teacher, an English learner (upper intermediate… Continue Reading

… oder, auf Deutsch, Englisch Macht Spaß! When not hunched over a laptop banging out things I notice about Germans, trying to ‘write a book’ (like everyone else in the… Continue Reading