Anonymous asked: hi. i need to write an official letter to my professor to appeal for 'bessere Note'. But i can't find the right heading for the letter. Can you help me out? Is this phrase 'um Begnadigung betteln' appropriate?

“um Begnadigung betteln” sounds more like somebody who was sentenced to death in the Middle Ages and is now begging the king for mercy ;)

Are you looking for the subject line? What about or “Bitte um erneute Überprüfung meiner Note” (request for reconsideration of my grade). Or “Bitte um Nachsicht” (request for lenience)?

Anonymous asked: I am learning german with Rosetta stone and I need some help to expand my german language skills and speaking. Any Ideas? Also I need to know how to say. My name is michael :)

o.O… it’s kinda shocking to hear that you’ve been learning with a language program that doesn’t teach you how to say “My name is…” etc.! You should probably learn with a different kind of program/course in addition. Anyway, I’m glad to help you, Michael :)

Mein Name ist…. [‘m͜ain ‘na:mɘ ‘ʔist]

Ich heiße…. [‘ʔiç ‘h͜aisɘ]

Also check out this previous post “First small talk - names”.

Anonymous asked: guten tag! Are there german children's books on the internet? Ich bin sicher wo ich finde ihnen nicht. I hope that made sense. haha Danke sehr!

Google Books has some stuff, but as far as I know only extracts of books by e.g. Erich Kästner or Michael Ende.

I also found this website, that provides some short stories for children. This one does, too. :)

peppermintwolfman asked: Do you speak any other languages?

Yes, I do! :) Besides German I speak English, French, basic Swedish, and a bit Spanish and Russian.

I went to a language school for 2 years and got a degree as a Foreign Language Correspondent. My two main languages were English and French. During high school I also learned Latin for 5 years, which helped me a lot in terms of understanding languages better in general.

Some years ago I had many Russian speaking friends and picked up some stuff. Also learned how to read and write in kyrillic.

Swedish (and Sweden in general) is kind of a passion of mine. I’ve been to Sweden 5 times and just love everything about it! The language is just awesome in my opinion. I used to be way better at understanding and speaking it, but I wanna take courses at university again to refresh and improve my skills. This past semester I took a Spanish course, which was fun but I couldn’t really concentrate on it too much because of all the other courses I had to take and study for.

There are many more languages that I’m interested in learning at least on a basic level, e.g. Arabic or Japanese.

As you can see - I just LOVE languages! ;) I admire people who speak several fluently and I wish I had grown up bilingually ;)

ntan asked: hi, ich bin Intan aus Indonesien.
Am April ich will nach Deutschland fliegen als AuPair werden.

Was finden Sie AuPair?

Hallo Intan!

Ich wünsche dir viel Erfolg bei deinem AuPair Aufenthalt in Deutschland. Als AuPair wirst du sicherlich viel erleben und deine Sprachkenntnisse verbessern. Viel Spaß!

Anonymous asked: Any good Kässespätzle recipe (when you've already bought spätzle)?

Hmmm…. don’t know any by heart. But I could ask my mom ;)

michaelhsu asked: Hallo,
Ich sage das immer so: "Ich bin im 1990 geboren." aber bei der Jahren kann ich auch "Ich bin im Jahr 90 geboren." sagen ?

viele Grüße
Michael

Hey Michael,

“…im 1990 geboren” ist leider nicht richtig. “im” benutzt du nur in deinem zweiten Beispiel, nämlich “im Jahr (19)90”. “im” setzt sich zusammen aus “in” und “dem” und bezieht sich hier auf “das Jahr”. Wenn du nur die Jahreszahl verwendest wie in deinem ersten Beispiel, dann brauchst du keine Präposition! :) Also entweder:

Ich bin 1990 geboren.

oder: Ich bin im Jahr (19)90 geboren.