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18 unusual facts about German Language


A. Ronald Walton

Working with ACTFL, the US Department of Education, the College Board, among other organizations, Walton helped to formulate nationwide standards for Japanese, French, Hebrew German, Spanish Chinese and Korean.

Alex Glen

He joined Southampton in time for their summer tour of Germany, where his fluent German led to him becoming the club's official interpreter.

Dale C. Thomson

To do his thesis entitled "General Haushofer and his Ideas on Geopolitics," Thomson spent time in Germany, becoming fluent in the German language.

Ellguth

Ellguth or Ellgoth is a German variant name for several Central European villages that derive their names from the medieval Slavic lhóta meaning "free or grace period", referring to the medieval custom of village founders being exempt from paying duties to their lords for a period of 5–8 years.

Friedrich der Grosse

Friedrich der Grosse (spelled Große in German) is the German name for Frederick the Great, a ruler of Prussia.

Green Hills Fantasy

Green Hills Fantasy is a musical piece composed by Thomas Doss describing the Upper Austrian region of Mühlviertel (literally German for the Mühl Quarter or District)

Kupferstichkabinett

Kupferstichkabinett is the German word for print room.

Kurt Kreuger

Kurt Kreuger briefly returned to Europe and starred in several German movies.

Languages of Austria

The languages of Austria include German, the official language and lingua franca; Austro-Bavarian, the main language outside Vorarlberg; Alemannic, the main language in Vorarlberg; and several minority languages.

Languages of Hungary

:: – German: spoken by the German minority, especially in and around Mecsek Mountains, but also in other parts of the country.

Mensa

In German, the term Mensa is used to refer to a university cafeteria

Middle French

There were also some borrowings from Spanish (casque) and German (reître) and from the Americas (cacao, hamac, maïs).

New Gods

The two planets were once part of the same world, a planet called Urgrund (German for "primeval ground"), but it was split apart millennia ago after the death of the Old Gods during Ragnarök.

Oskar Schade

He was the author of the influential Altdeutsches Wörterbuch (Old German Dictionary), and with August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben (1798-1874), was co-editor of the Weimarisches Jahrbuch für deutsche Sprache, Literatur und Kunst (Weimar Annals of German language, literature and art).

Parnassus Boicus

Gelasius Hieber (1671-1731) was a famous preacher in the German language.

Patrizius Wittman

His "Allgemeine Geschichte der katholischen Missionen" (1846 and 1850) was the first treatment of this subject in German; the second volume of the work treats mainly of the conversion of the Indian tribes in America.

Scharfrichter

The term Scharfrichter (German for executioner, literally: "keen judge") refers specifically to a tradition of executioners in the German states.

Will Minson

Off the field, Minson is known for his intelligence and multi-faceted abilities - he plays saxophonist, speaks fluent German and is currently studying civil engineering at the University of Melbourne.


Amit Offir

On 2013 Amit's books were translated to other languages such as English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and many more.

Anna Maria Dengel

After completing her schooling there, she was offered a position to teach German in Lyons, France.

Anton Vassil

As a director fluent in French, English and German, he is often associated with international projects requiring multiligual skills and international co-productions.

Arlon

The Maitrank (German for "drink of May") is the city's most popular refreshment.

Arpan Sharma

Arpan Sharma (born 1997) is a British polyglot who at the age of 10 could speak 11 languages: English, Hindi, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Tamil, Swahili, Polish, Thai, Welsh and Sanskrit.

Arthur John Butler

Apart from his work on Dante and other Italian poets, Butler translated books from German and French, including the memoirs of Bismarck, Thiébault, and Jean de Marbot, and work by Sainte-Beuve.

Astra Digital Radio

The majority of channels to have ever broadcast on ADR, and all remaining ones, are German or in the German language.

Berlin–Lehrte railway

The Berlin–Lehrte railway, known in German as the Lehrter Bahn (Lehrter railway), is an east-west line running from Berlin via Lehrte to Hanover.

Best German Novels of the Twentieth Century

The Best German Novels of the Twentieth Century is a list of books compiled in 1999 by Literaturhaus München and Bertelsmann, in which 99 prominent German authors, literary critics, and scholars of German ranked the most significant German-language novels of the twentieth century.

Chief fireman

In imperial Prussia, the title was known as brandmeister (from German Brand - "fire" and Meister - literally "master") and was the police officer, the chief of one of city fire-fighting crews.

Climm

It is internationalized; German, English, and other translations are available, and it supports sending and receiving acknowledged and non-acknowledged Unicode-encoded messages (it even understands UTF-8 messages for message types the ICQ protocol does not use them for).

Denominazione di origine controllata

For wines produced in Bolzano, where German is an official language, DOC may alternatively be written as Kontrollierte Ursprungsbezeichnung and DOCG may be written as Kontrollierte und garantierte Ursprungsbezeichnung.

Ebenezer, Saskatchewan

The first settlers arrived between 1885 and 1887, mostly German-speaking Protestants who named the village after the location of Eben-Ezer mentioned in the Books of Samuel of the Old Testament.

Eine Chance/Zu Gangsta

"Eine Chance"/"Zu Gangsta" (German: "One chance"/"Too gangsta") is a double A-side single by the German rappers Bushido and Fler off their 2009 album Carlo, Cokxxx, Nutten 2.

Fassel

Fassel (translated "barrel") is a surname of German origin.

Halle, Bentheim

Unlike the people of the better known and bigger city of Halle in Saxony-Anhalt, who call themselves Hallenser in German, the inhabitants here call themselves simply Haller, following the usual German rule for formulating nouns denoting a particular place’s inhabitants.

Homoerotic poetry

The first modern European gay anthology was in German compiled by Elisar von Kupffer (1900); it was followed by the poetry and prose anthology Iolaus compiled by the homosexual British socialist Edward Carpenter, which has remained in print almost continuously until today.

Kennst du die Stars

"Kennst du die Stars" (German: "Do you know the stars") is the third single by German rapper Bushido featuring comedian Oliver Pocher, from his album Heavy Metal Payback.

Klaus Knopper

He received his degree in electrical engineering from the Kaiserslautern University of Technology (in German: Technische Universität Kaiserslautern), co-founded LinuxTag in 1996 (a major European Linux expo) and has been a self-employed information technology consultant since 1998.

Langenlonsheim Airfield

Langenlonsheim Airfield (or Flugplatz Langenlonsheim in German) is a small airfield in Langenlonsheim, Germany.

Languages of Liechtenstein

Liechtenstein's official language is German, and the principality is the smallest of the four countries in Europe populated by a majority of German speakers.

Liechtenstein identity card

The Liechtenstein identity card (in German: Identitätskarte Liechtenstein) is issued to Liechtenstein citizens by the Immigration and Passport Office in Vaduz.

MacArthur Study Bible

Initially only available in the New King James Version, the MacArthur Study Bible is now also published using the New American Standard Bible text and the English Standard Version text, and the New International Version text as well as in Spanish, German, French, Italian and Portuguese.

Marathon Media Group

The shows are dubbed into French (1st official), Japanese (2nd official), English, Thai, German, Dutch, Malay, Arabic, Italian, Romanian, Spanish, Portuguese, and other languages dubbed and shown around the world.

Miķelis Valters

Miķelis Valters (formerly, and as an author in German, Walters) (May 7, 1874 in Liepāja - – March 27, 1968 in Nice) was a prominent Latvian politician, diplomat, writer, and editor.

Mòcheno language

Mòcheno is an Upper German variety spoken in three towns of the Mocheni Valley (German: Fersental, Italian: Valle del Fersina, Mòcheno: Bersntol), in Trentino, northeastern Italy.

Neue Slowenische Kunst

Neue Slowenische Kunst (a German phrase meaning "New Slovenian Art"), a.k.a. NSK, is a controversial political art collective that announced itself in Slovenia in 1984, when Slovenia was part of Yugoslavia.

Prince Eugen of Schaumburg-Lippe

Prince Eugen of Schaumburg-Lippe full German name: Wilhelm Eugen Georg Friedrich August Albrecht zu Schaumburg-Lippe (8 August 1899, in Hannover, Germany – 7 November 1929, in Caterham, Surrey) was a son of Prince Maximilian August Jaroslav Adalbert Hermann of Schaumburg-Lippe (1871–1904) and Princess Olga Alexandra Marie of Württemberg (1876–1932).

Radio Bulgaria

In 2004, Radio Bulgaria broadcasts to Europe, Asia, Africa, North and South America on short and medium wave in Bulgarian, English, French, German, Spanish, Russian, Serbian, Greek, Albanian and Turkish.

Rust, Burgenland

The settlement was first mentioned as Ceel in a 1317 deed issued by King Charles I of Hungary, its name derived from Hungarian szil for Elm, later translated into German Rüster or Rusten.

RV Polarstern

Polarstern is also the name of the first track of Eisbrecher's (German for Icebreaker) first album, Eisbrecher.

Samuel Nathan Blatchford

In addition to his native Navajo and second language of English, he also learned to speak Turkish, French, German and Japanese.

Satanische Verse

Satanische Verse (1990) is the first release by the German band Das Ich.

Skolem–Noether theorem

The theorem was first published by Thoralf Skolem in 1927 in his paper Zur Theorie der assoziativen Zahlensysteme (German: On the theory of associative number systems) and later rediscovered by Emmy Noether.

Soltorgsgymnasiet

Since 2002 Soltorgsgymnasiet have had an exchange-agreement with Lycée Léon Bourgeois in Épernay for teacher and the students reading French and an exchange with a school in Magdeburg for the students reading German.

St. Kilian's Deutsche Schule

It was named after Saint Kilian (using the German language version of his name), the Irish saint who spread Christianity throughout Europe.

T. P. O'Connor

In 1870, he moved to London, and was appointed a sub-editor on the Daily Telegraph, principally on account of the utility of his mastery of French and German in reportage of the Franco-Prussian War.

Ts'ao Yung-ho

Ts'ao has studied a number of languages in pursuit of his understanding of early Taiwanese history, meaning he can now make use of ten languages: Taiwanese, Japanese, English, German, Mandarin Chinese, French, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin.

Ulf Stolterfoht

Ulf Stolterfoht opted out of military service and performed civilian service instead, after which he studied German and Linguistics in Bochum und Tübingen.

Walter Schiller

He published this work in German in 1927 and in English in 1933, and wrote one of the earliest papers on dysgerminoma in 1934.

Weirathmüller

Weirathmüller (also spelled Weirathmueller) is a German family name, mostly spread in the Innviertel.

William Nicolson

After visiting Leipzig to learn German he was ordained as a deacon in 1679 and made Vicar of Torpenhow in 1681.He was also made prebendary of Carlisle Cathedral in 1681, and Archdeacon in 1682.

World Basketball Manager

This version of the game was also released in 2005 in Chinese and German language for the local markets.

Wrist

The English word "wrist" is etymologically derived from the ancient German word wristiz from which are derived modern German rist ("instep", "wrist") and modern Swedish vrist ("instep", "ankle").