1. Germany is known for its fairytale air: there are over 150 castles in the country!
2. The average German consumes 119 litres of beer per year—but picking one brand amongst the 1,500 on offer might prove a bit of a challenge!
3. Germans answer the phone with their surnames instead of saying ‘hello’ like most...
4. Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis, was Austrian. So is Arnold Schwarzenegger.
5. Croissants were originally from Vienna!
6. Over the years, Germany has had no less than 5 different capital cities!
- Get the lowdown about spending a year abroad in a German-speaking country from students who have been there, done that!
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The following post was a random collection of all my thoughts on my return from the first part of my Year Abroad. It had been a very long, tiring and stressful day, and things were about to get a whole lot more stressful...Published in Becky's Augsburg-Moscow BlogTags -
Liam Evans is at Bangor University studying LLB Law with German, and is currently on an Erasmus exchange at Johannes Gutenburg Universitaet in Mainz, Germany, where he is studying Law. Here he passes on his top tips for living and studying in Mainz.
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Hello from Deutschland! I actually can’t believe I’m here and have 5 minutes free to write this post. I’ve been so busy ever since I left Stafford a week ago and, to be honest, I haven’t looked back! I’ve had so much to keep my mind off of missing home that up 'til now, I hadn’t really thought much about it. I’ll run through some of the things I’ve been through so far, including a fair few things I didn’t actually know about until I got here.
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Phil's Year Abroad Blog: Learning the ropes in Berlin
Written by Phil Richards Friday, 16 September 2011Phil is out in Berlin, on his first few weeks of his year abroad. Here, he recounts his time in the German city...Published in Phil's Berlin Blog -
Georgina Beardmore is a Sheffield Uni student and has just come back from her year abroad in Duisburg, Germany. Here, she gives her account of how it went, with her top places to go and visit whilst you're there...Published in German-speaking
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Sarah Harrison, a Modern Languages student studying German, Russian and Dutch at the University of Sheffield, is just coming to the end of her British Council placement in Innsbruck, Austria. Next semester, she'll be heading out to Saint Petersburg to continue her studies! But here, Sarah shares all the insider knowledge she's acquired over her time in Innsbruck: where to find accommodation, picking up the accent, what to pack, and how to make the most of the amazing snow...
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Karlsruhe, Germany: 'Vitamin B'. Getting involved!
Written by Claire Woolly Saturday, 22 October 2011Week three in Karlsuhe coming up. The last week has been spent finding new hobbies & trying new things, (often with little success), but hey, I'm having fun, speaking German & meeting new people...Long-term accommodation, despite the struggle, is now sorted & I'm well on the way to finding my feet & feeling settled, though the odd skype with friends & family back in England always helps to keep any 'I miss England' moments at bay.
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T minus 3 days until take off… Literally! My flight leaves the UK at 11am Monday morning and it’s all starting to hit home that this time Monday night I’ll be in my empty, probably half-painted apartment, frantically trying to revise the basics of German grammar for my Einstufungstest (placement test) the following morning. The past week has meant many frantic e-mails (the last of which I’ve just finished writing!) to ensure that I can get into my apartment on Monday, despite it being a bank holiday, that I know exactly what’s going on when I arrive in Munich and how on Earth I’m going to live on Monday night until I can get to a supermarket on the Tuesday!Published in Becky's Augsburg-Moscow BlogTags -
It’s starting to get closer now. This time in four weeks I’ll hopefully be talking to you all from my flat which I’ll be starting to make my home for the next four months. I decided a while back that with four weeks to go, I’d finally start getting my bum into gear and getting down to the nitty gritty. I don’t think I’ve ever been as organised in my entire life as I have been these past three days! I’ve also learnt a lot this past week. I think it just goes to show that really, you can say you know it all but you never really do.Published in Becky's Augsburg-Moscow BlogTags -
37 days sounds like a lot of time, doesn’t it? Especially when you reflect just how long has gone into planning this whole year. Put into perspective, 37 days is just under half the amount of time I’ll be spending in Moscow next Spring. Yet, no matter how I try and justify it to myself, 37 days feels like barely anything.
For the next 37 days until I go, I’m going to try and fill you in on my rollercoaster several months of preparation, exactly what has gone wrong and how I’ve managed to sort things and get everything back on track. For my first post, let me take you back to the very beginning: how I decided where I was going to spend 7 months of my life.
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