Barbaras Rhubarb Bar
This tongue twister song went viral around the world in 2023. Click here for more about the song
Rhabarberbarbara
Barbara and rhubarb have a long history with tongue twisters. This one highlights how German compound nouns can be built. It shows how you can break down long works to work out the meaning. [...]
Guessing German Words with Jackson and Connor
Jackson (Jacko) Irvine and Connor Metcalfe are both from Melbourne. They are living in Germany playing soccer for FC St Pauli in Hamburg and also for the Australian Socceroos. The FC St Pauli filmed [...]
7 Tips to Better Understand Fast Spoken German
Everyday language use in German-speaking communities can be frustrating for learners of German as people speak fast and in ways not taught in text books. Easy German has some fantastic tips for learners of [...]
Auf Brot surfen? Krass! – Eisbach München
The Wild Bakers accept a challenge to bake a surfboard to ride on the Eisbach in Munich. Watch the video and read about it in this article: https://www.innungsbaecker.de/surfbread-challenge
The Longest German Word (Choir)
The Longest German Word or "Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz" refers to a former law dealing with the supervision of beef labeling. Song composed by Gordon Hamilton with help from The Australian National University's UniLodge Choir. Performance [...]
Australia and Germany $110 Million for Green Hydrogen
German Minister for Education and Research Bettina Stark-Watzinger and Australian Minister for Climate Change and Energy Chris Bowen announced funding for four new joint projects under the German–Australian Hydrogen Innovation and Technology Incubator (HyGATE) initiative [...]
Planet Beruf
This website for young people provides comprehensive support for students who are deciding what they want to do after school. Begin by thinking about what your strength and aims are in life under 'Was will [...]
TED Talk: Watch Lena Boroditsky talk about how language shapes the way we think.
"There are about 7,000 languages spoken around the world -- and they all have different sounds, vocabularies and structures. But do they shape the way we think? Cognitive scientist Lera Boroditsky shares examples of language [...]
150 Years of Siemens in Australia
On August 22nd in 1872, the first telegraph message was transmitted over a 2,700 km Overland Telegraph Line between Darwin and Adelaide. This great engineering achievement of 19th century Australia, connecting Australia to the world, also saw [...]
