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April 1st is also a day for practical jokes in Germany; newspapers are one of the leading sources of April Fool's Fun and this year organizations and the companies like the Goethe-Institute and Lindt have gotten in on the fun, too.
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Here's a fun slideshow from The Local, complete with beds, hams, and brides. (In English)
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The Goethe Institut is worried about Umlauts disappearing from the German language...
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Even Kim Cattrall, of Sex and the City fame, speaks German! Here she speaks a few perfect German sentences in which she claims she's forgotten a lot and excuses her German...totally unnecessary, in my opinion.
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Even Leonardo Dicaprio speaks German, which is helpful since his Grandma was from Nordrhein-Westfalen.
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After the Grammy Awards last night one of my German students Facebooked me and proclaimed, "Sandra Bullock speaks German!" Apparently Sandra Bullock's mother was a German opera singer and Bullock grew up in Nürnberg and studied ballet and vocal arts and even sang in her mother's opera productions.
What makes perfect sense and is astounding at the same time is Bullock's German accent--perfectly representative of the area she grew up in.
Here's a video of Bullock accepting a Bambi award, an international prize awarded by the Bambi Committee for excellence in categories ranging from pop music to sports, classical music to charity.
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Diese Videos sind absolut herrlich! Hear one word in several different languages...and in comparison to German.
Total genial!
Und...Überraschung! Teil zwei!....PART 2!
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How charmed I am when I overhear a German word which I understand!
- Mark Twain in a letter to W. D. Howells, 5/4/1878