Sunday, March 17, 2013
Sunday, March 3, 2013
Mark Twain - Heidelberg - German Language
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| Heidelberg (Photo credit: Mark Taggart) |
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| Cover of Mark Twain |
GamesForLearning.com is a very interesting platform for learning languages (with a gazillion more positive aspects than Rosetta Stone, including the price! For a sobering look at Rosetta Stone from a researcher who studies data and leaves out corporate spin, look here) They've included Heidelberg and Mark Twain in their newest version of their level 1 course:
http://www.gamesforlanguage.com/blog/post/2013-02-heidelberg--mark-twain
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lC1sJBnKIJg&feature=youtu.be
Bye Bye -- Ein Lied von Cro
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| Cro (Photo credit: Hubert Burda Media) |
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| Matthias Schweighöfer, German actor Volkswagen People’s Night 2008 (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
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| Youtubing (Photo credit: danoxster) |
http://www.lyricsgaps.com/exercises/mode/2183/Cro/Bye%20Bye%202
After writing this little entry, I added Bye Bye to the site at Lyrics Gaps.
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While engaging in the German-teacher-version of Youtubing, I encountered this video. From what I quickly gathered from the descriptions below and at the end of the video: I think that 1) the song is an earlier song of Cro, pre-fame, and it was republished with other earlier songs after his first record had a lot of success and 2) the video, a combination of two different videos, stems from some sort of "make-a-video" competition. Obviously, the person who made the second half had a lot of connections, since the blond-haired dreamy guy (whom the girl runs after) is the actor Matthias Schweighöfer, who is quite a German film star. We have not seen anything he's in during class (to my recollection), but that is not due to him but the fact that many of his films are *just* far enough on the weird half of the "it's an European film"-spectrum that I have not been comfortable showing it in class.
Cro, however, is ridiculously cool *and* full of positive lyrics!
Now, obviously there are two "chapters" to this video, but what is the difference in the lyrics? What happens between Chapter 1 and Chapter 2?
Here is a lyric-video of the Bye, Bye from Youtube:
Saturday, March 2, 2013
Wie bekommt man SWAG? Wie kommt man an SWAG ran?
Dazu ein sehr interessantes Video von Ponk auf YouTube. Lehrfilm = "Teaching Film/Educating Film/How-To Film"
And in case you are unfamiliar with the nuances of YouTube video-genres, this is not a serious how-to video.
And in case you are unfamiliar with the nuances of YouTube video-genres, this is not a serious how-to video.
Take care with what videos you watch anytime you are on YouTube -- in general, the parodies from the Ponks are not offensive fare to the majority of the YouTube viewing audience. However, if you do not yet understanding what a satire or parody is, or if you do [think] you understand them and still do not like them, then you should probably not subscribe to the Ponks.
Watch Music Vids on Youtube with a purpose...
Why not listen to songs you really enjoy, in the original, and watch the lyrics flash by in German?
That will allow you to allot a lot of memory to just paying attention to the meaning of the sentences and deciding whether you know those words well enough--
That's what Herr G has done now and again with his favorite artists:
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