Tag: English

Beneath a cloudy sky, a road enters the bottom third of the picture from the left, takes a left turn near the center and then disappears behind a hill in the distance. On the right hand side are two yellow road signs anchored in stoney ground. One picture shows a truck going down hill thus warning drivers of a steep descent. The other picture shows a cow above which somebody has drawn a UFO. The name "Markus Böttner" is written in black in the top left of the picture, whilst the track title "Never Walked the Highway" is written in white in the bottom left.

Update: Markus – Musikwettbewerb 2.0 – Wir Machen Druck GmbH | #Songwriter #MusicCompetition

Posted on by Markus in Music, Uncategorized

Update & Good News

Ich bin unter den Top-24 und komme somit auf die Promo-CD!

I am in the Top-24 and made it onto the promo CD compilation!

Deutsch

Ich nehme an einem Musikwettbewerb der Wir Machen Druck GmbH & MM-Music-Media-Verlag teil und würde mich über Euere Unterstützung sehr freuen. Es ist auch ganz einfach:

    • Wenn Euch das Video gefällt, dann hört es gern bis zum Ende an, gebt ein Like und teilt es dann mit Eueren Freunden. Vielleicht gefällt es ihnen ja.

 

    Wenn Euch das Video nicht ganz so gut gefällt, dann lasst es doch einfach trotzdem bis zum Ende laufen – um sicher zu gehen, dass es Euch wirklich nicht gefällt 😉 – und teilt es dann mit eueren Freunden. Vielleicht gefällt es ihnen ja.

English

I am taking part in a music competition run by Wir Machen Druck Printing Ltd and MM-Music-Media-Verlag Publishing and ould be very grateful for your support. It is super easy, too:

    • If you like the video, don’t forget to listen to the end, like it and share it with your friends. Maybe they’ll like it.

 

    If you don’t like the video that much, just let it play to the end anyway – to make sure you don’t like it 😉 – and then share it with your friends. Maybe they’ll like it.
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Short Guide to German Pronunciation – CONSONANTS

Posted on by Markus in language learning, Linguistics, Sprache

FThe following is a list of German consonant sounds. They will be listed together with their written correspondents; this way you will be better able to relate the sounds to words that you know. Moreover, the instructions of their articulation will be based on English as a native language. When we learn a new language, there will always be a certain amount of influence by our mother tongue. Perhaps you have listened to a German person speaking English viss a tsherman accent. 😉

One more thing: When you read the examples, it will be really helpful to you if you say them out loud and pay attention to what is happening in your mouth, i.e. how your lips and tongue move.

Now let’s get started.

I love the #English #Language for its straight forwardness

Posted on by Markus in Linguistics, Sprache

German is claimed to be a very flowery language in which one subordinate clause chases another. true. After all, we, the Germans, intend to live up to our forefathers’ reputation to be “the land of poets and philosophers”. English, by contrast, is much more straight forward with its no-nonsense attitude towards just getting the message across, as the following example demonstrates:
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