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Listen to German music HERE!

Heute ist der Tag der Deutschen Einheit!

Read about it HERE!

den. 3. Oktober – Tag der Deutschen Einheit

Our class was chosen to be a recipient of some anonymous donations!

DANKE!

Oktoberfest officially began on Samstag, den 21. September!

Originally, Oktoberfest was a celebration of the Hochzeit (weddding) of King Ludwig I and Princess Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen.  The citizens of München were invited to attend the festivities held in the fields in front of the gates of the city to celebrate.  Today those fields are known as the Theresienwiese (Theresa’s meadow), or as the locals say, the Wies’n.

Today, Oktoberfest is visited by over 6 million people and is the world’s largest fair.

Check out the live views of Oktoberfest with these webcams!

Here’s an interesting read about word-order in German.

The examples use the verb beißen – “to bite”
Pre-test:

What does the following sentence say?
“Den Hund beißt der Mann.”

http://www.dartmouth.edu/~german/Grammatik/WordOrder/WordOrder.html

Rick Steves talks about the ever-evolving German city of Berlin on this week’s NPR Travel with Rick Steves show.

You can listen HERE.  (Skip to 33:30 for the segment on Berlin.)