{"id":6814,"date":"2023-09-25T08:38:29","date_gmt":"2023-09-25T08:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jolliffe.de\/?p=6814"},"modified":"2023-09-25T08:38:30","modified_gmt":"2023-09-25T08:38:30","slug":"wonderful-german-words-and-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jolliffe.de\/en\/uncategorized\/wonderful-german-words-and-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Wonderful German Words and Games"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile is-vertically-aligned-top\" style=\"grid-template-columns:21% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jolliffe.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/German-words.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6815 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jolliffe.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/German-words.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.jolliffe.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/German-words-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>Some of you may know that I love playing games so it was lovely to start the weekend on Friday with a games night with good friends. We were playing Wizard (a highly recommendable game where you have to predict the number of tricks you will get) when my friend suddenly used the word \u2018Nichtvorhersagef\u00e4higkeit\u2019 to demonstrate her skills (or perceived lack of them) \ud83d\ude0a.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What a wonderful word I thought (even if we weren\u2019t sure it actually exists) and we considered how to translate it into English. \u2018Inability to predict\u2019 is probably the closest we got, a typical example of how the English language just does not lend itself to long words \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, this could be a good fun way to practise your English skills. Think up a long German word and try and translate it \u2026 To practise this, I cheated and asked ChatGPT who came up with \u2018Zahnfleischb\u00fcrstchenknabberer\u2019 as someone who nibbles on toothbrushes. Being in a creative mood, it then gave me \u2018Schl\u00fcsselbeinbruchversicherung\u2019 for collar bone fracture insurance and I\u2019m sure it would have been happy to continue &#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But on the topic of games, try explaining your favourite game in English. I remember a wonderful lesson many years ago when we played Mahjong, one of my favourite games, in a lesson as one student loved playing it and his two colleagues wanted to learn it \u2026 so why not do it in English?<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of you may know that I love playing games so it was lovely to start the weekend on Friday with a games night with good friends. We were playing Wizard (a highly recommendable&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6815,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"en","enabled_languages":["de","en"],"languages":{"de":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jolliffe.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jolliffe.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jolliffe.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jolliffe.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jolliffe.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6814"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.jolliffe.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6817,"href":"https:\/\/www.jolliffe.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6814\/revisions\/6817"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jolliffe.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jolliffe.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jolliffe.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jolliffe.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}