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German Language/Expert Profile
Expertise
I can answer questions regarding grammar and style, as well as many questions about German culture, history, and literature.
Experience in the area
I am native speaker with a German degree in Teaching English as a Foreign Language and German. I lived and worked in the USA for seven years (taught high school and all college levels) and spent three years as a high school teacher of German and EFL at an international school in Mexico. In 2006 I returned to Germany, where I am currently working as a teacher in Hamburg.
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Recent Answers from Cornelia Neumann
2009-11-20 Expressions:
Hi Simon, "draufsein" means something like "be in a (good/bad) mood". gut draufsein = be in a good mood schlecht draufsein = be in a bad mood The tone is important too, and your example could mean
2009-11-17 Learning German!!:
Hi Kayla, there are ways - if you have no access to a class then you can still buy a language course (i.e. a book and/or software) or see if your local library has one. Even if they don't, they can
2009-11-10 sollte – müsste - dürfte:
Hi Simon, I'm sorry but I'm swamped with work and my previous attempts at answering this question have led to nothing but frustration on my part, which is why I didn't hit "send". The three words
2009-10-30 "es" mit verb im plural:
Hallo Martina, Wikipedia to the rescue: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expletivum --> Ebenfalls rhetorisch motiviert ist die Verwendung des Expletivs bei Sätzen wie „Es zogen zwei Burschen ins Felde“
2009-10-28 propper:
Hi Anne, it's a spelling variation of "proper", meaning something like "acceptable", with a connotation of "bourgeois". A child that is "propper angezogen" would be very clean and tidy and somewhat
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