I was reading a friend's blog who is teaching English in Honduras. She hadn't posted in a while which made me worried. After some time she replied to my email saying things were going well, its just she hadn't gotten around to posting. It reminded me of my blog which hadn't received a post in a long while. What is the solution to maintaining regular posts? Maybe this is it... have a "key", mine being this great list of German words and their meanings explained. [NO -THIS DIDN'T WORK. I ADDED ENTRIES FOR THREE SESSIONS, THEN STOPPED. THE SEARCH CONTINUES. I THINK ITS ABOUT HAVING SOMETHING TO SAY -THAT YOU THINK OTHERS WILL BE INTERESTED IN.] So the plan is to regularly post once or more a week using the 250 + words, from a list of DW.de's http://www.dw-world.de/ list of 250+ words that explain a bit of Germany. Here we go, the first word:
Über
The German language certainly has a history with the "über" in its vocabulary - with some positive concepts of the word in combination with others having gone awry, like Nietzsche's philosophical idea of the "Übermensch" - or prime example of a human being - being used for Nazi propaganda. Then there's "Deutschland, Deutschland über alles" - the opening words from the "Deutschlandlied," composed by Joseph Haydn, which has been used wholly or in part as Germany's national anthem since 1922. But then, there are the much more pleasant "über" words, like "überglücklich." Überglücklich means really, really, really happy - or beyond happiness!
( From http://www.dw-world.de/popups/popup_imagegallery/0,,2235205_page_1_lang_2,00.htmlüberglücklich )
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