WORT DES TAGES
der Tee (pl. die Tees) - tea, char [BE, coll.]

Möchten Sie eine Tasse Tee? - Would you like a cup of tea? [formal]

Möchtest du eine Tasse Tee? - Would you like a cup of tea? [informal]

Ist noch Tee übrig?/Ist noch Tee da? - Is there any tea left?

Ich trinke lieber Tee als Kaffee. - I rather drink tea than coffee.

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Each year on 11/11, at 11.11 a.m., Karneval starts officially in Germany. The madness will continue until Ash Wednesday (the beginning of Lent), which will be February 6, 2008. (The date varies each year ( Read more... )

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"Kohlfahrt" is a regional custom in the area around Bremen and Oldenburg, the northwestern part of Lower Saxony. I am not living in this area but only 200km away so I got around to spend some time there the last years, visiting friends and such. One day in early February we noticed something (in our eyes) very, very weired and when we asked our ( Read more... )

So, as this is mainly a community teaching foreigners about Germany, I thought it was time I to educate the Germans among you a bit as well, as customs greatly differ between all the German counties. To my great surprise I learned from other students that 4 very important East Westphalian Customs are widely unknown outside the Teutoburg Forest. So ( Read more... )