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Short Christmas Lesson

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Hello everyone,



this is just a very short lesson about some useful Christmas vocabulary you might need when you come to Germany during Christmas time.

Happy Christmas! = Frohe Weihnachten! or Fröhliche Weihnachten!
Merry Christmas! = Gesegnete Weihnachten!

Happy Holidays! = Schöne Feiertage!
All the best! = Alles Gute!



Ich wünsche dir... = I wish you (informal)
Ich wünsche Ihnen... = I wish you (formal)
Ich wünsche Euch... = I wish you (pl)
...you all = ...euch allen
...for you and your family = ...für dich und deine Familie

Also, fröhliche Weihnachten Euch allen!
Kirsten


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  1. MayMay said – Wed, 24 Dec 2008 17:19:18 -0000 ( Link )

    Very timely lesson, Kirsten! Happy Holidays to you too!

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  2. KirstenWinkler said – Thu, 25 Dec 2008 00:23:36 -0000 ( Link )

    Danke schön :) There will be a new one for the new year’s eve.

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  3. lucyinthesky said – Thu, 25 Dec 2008 05:11:52 -0000 ( Link )

    Alles gute! I’m just curious, how close are the Dutch and German language? If you spoke one…would you be able to basically understand the other?

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  4. KirstenWinkler said – Fri, 26 Dec 2008 22:45:19 -0000 ( Link )

    hi lucy. dir auch alles gute :) well, german and dutch are really quite close. and if the dutch speak very slowly you are able to understand most of the meaning. I think it works the other way round, too. today I received a christmas package full of dutch goods (cookies, coffee, tea, jam etc) and I thought “really quite close to german”. so yes, basically we can understand the meaning of a sentence, maybe not the whole sense, but the direction of the idea, I would say.

    but a dutch student of mine told me that dutch is a mixture of 30% french, 30% english, 30% german and 10% unknown (maybe languages from their former colonies). so you can’t automatically say, that a german person who only speaks german might understand the dutch. maybe I can understand them because I speak french and english, too?! so you see, really a good question ;)

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  5. lucyinthesky said – Sat, 27 Dec 2008 06:12:53 -0000 ( Link )

    Excellent answer. It’s exactly the kind of answering I was looking for. You’re awesome! Thanks! :)

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