#ShoutOutForGerman week might be over, but the fun doesn’t have to stop! Come along to the next session of the TOGS! Hear from Stefan Sadecki, DAAD Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh, and share ideas with like-minded colleagues from across Scotland! https://loom.ly/ikIevXw
What a week! A huge Dankeschön to everyone who took part in Shout Out For German – especially the incredible German language teachers and pupils across the UK!
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DANKE to everyone who took part in #ShoutOutForGerman week! 🖤❤️💛
We loved seeing so much joy, enthusiasm and love for the German language!
Wonderful German gardens & wonderful German words on BBC 1’s Monty Don’s Rhineland Gardens. I do like a nice ‘Schrebergarten’. #ShoutoutforGerman @uk.diplo.de @daad-uk-ireland.bsky.social
University of Bristol lecturer talking to year 12 students
on the last day of #ShoutOutForGerman a shout out to all the amazing teachers who teach German! If you would like us to come and talk to your students like our colleague Mandy did today in London, let us know!
Looking forward to Austrian author Kaśka Bryla’s residency at the Ingeborg Bachmann Centre (ILCS) in June and to discussing her latest novel “mein vater, der gulag, die krähe und ich” with her and translator Sheridan Marshall at the Austrian Cultural Forum
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🛑 "That's it – only German now!"
Ex-England, Nottingham Forest, Arsenal and Cologne striker Tony Woodcock learned to speak German during his time at 1. FC Köln.
Tony's #ShoutOutForGerman advice: anyone can learn German!
students posing with their tutors after the year abroad on stage theater sketch show.
Another highlight last term was the annual "Year Abroad on Stage" where students from across the School of Modern Languages get to reflect on their experiences on the year abroad and turn it into a sketch show. The German contribution focussed heavily on Deutsche Bahn. #ShoutOutForGerman
I know I'm late to the party, but here's a #ShoutOutForGerman! I'm glad I learned the language and think more people should be speaking it. Take that, Trump! (Thanks @annatwright.bsky.social for showing me this post #ITICommunity)
Ver words
0 Vernichtung - destruction
1 Vereinigung - unity
2 Verzweifelung - doubt
3 Verdreifachung - tripling
Verbesserung - improvement
Verwirrung - confusion
Verdacht - suspicion
Verharmlosung - trivialising
Verschlimmbesserung - attempted optimisation that made things worse
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University of Bristol German society members enjoying a social gathering in a pub
Our fantastic Bristol German Society has created a Family Scheme which connects students across different year groups. The "families" had meals together and plans are afoot for a family scavenger hunt in TB2. A great way for students across cohorts to get to know each! #ShoutOutForGerman
#ShoutOutForGerman - Learning German is not just an academic exercise - it's an invaluable skill for life and work. In German Week 2026, why not check out the data for Scottish Apprenticeships : www.apprenticeships.scot/events/scott...
The 78th National Postgraduate Colloquium in German Studies is coming up on 14 and 15 May, at ILCS. Do join us and tell us about your research!
See the call for papers here – the closing date is 14 February! 👇
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Two colleagues from the German department at University of Bristol talking to a room full of people.
On October 2nd our colleagues Mark and Ruth organised an event to reflect on 35 years of German unity. It was wonderful to get the Bristol-Hannover and Bristol Anglo-German societies together and mix with our students. #ShoutOutForGerman
A practice much loved by generations of British exchange students in Germany — now getting an airing on Tik Tok #ShoutOutForGerman
This week’s #WordyWednesday is embracing the wintry feel... Have you heard of “Schnee von Gestern”? It’s a great way to say that something is old news. It can even be used in a way that matches the English saying ‘water under the bridge’, depending on the context of conversation! #ShoutOutForGerman
We asked guests to tell us their favourite German word at a reception for German-speaking civil servants, as part of #ShoutOutForGerman week.
Alongside some top-notch animal names, we got some fantastic compound words and a few untranslatables too!
What's yours? 🤔
die Fibu
der Azubi
die Kripo
das Mofa
der Tüv
are all shortened forms of long German words that sound far cooler than what they mean.
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📢 Calling all PhD students in German Studies!
It’s still time to submit your proposal for the annual Sylvia Naish Postgraduate Student Lecture. Application deadline: 31 January 2026.
The Lecture, to be held at ILCS on 14 May, comes with a prize of £400.
Further details 👇
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This should be fun: Tell Hilda in German about the worst hotel you ever stayed in. #ShoutOutforGerman
We couldn't agree more with Sascha! And even if you missed out learning German at school, you can still pick it up later in life, for example during your studies as a degree (from scratch, even!) or in one of the language centre courses! #ShoutOutForGerman
Where could YOUR German take YOU? Here's a short video to share some ideas during German Week 2026! ❤️ #ShoutOutForGerman
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Translation goes esports! Human vs Machine live translation slams pit professional linguists against large language models. Our colleague Christophe Fricker runs them across the country. Join him in Warwick on 4 March for the next one. Details to follow!
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Thanks to Judith Blum, the Culture & Politics Officer from German Consulate General, for making the journey to Bishopbriggs today. As part of our German week activities, Judith met with some senior German pupils. #ShoutOutForGerman #Gimagine
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What a start to German Week 2026 when the Munich Supercrew visited us in Bishopbriggs yesterday. Thanks to the Goethe Institut for your support. @goethe-institut-uk.bsky.social
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The Learning Plaza was alive with the sound of the S2 presentations today. Well done to all of the pupils who took part. You did yourselves proud. 🙂
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Wonder if my former German tutor would welcome a visit after all these years! Alderman White School in Nottingham still does the exchange programme with Gütersloh, which is how I got involved with the German language aldermanwhite.school/language-col... #ShoutOutForGerman
