Open air concerts, delicious food, many fun activities for kids of all age groups are on offer every summer at "The Festival" in Karlsruhe. Thousands of people gather each year in this beautiful city. Diane and the Yabla team had a look around for you and experienced many different things.

In this video the German cabaret performer Dieter Hildebrand explains the vital importance of trees for maintaining the Earth's water supply and for man's survival.

In the play Rain Man the emotionally cold businessman Charlie Babbit is confronted with his autistic brother Raymond. Throughout the play Charlie grows through this experience. A video by rheinmaintv.

Barbara gives her students different sentences, which require them to add missing articles and prepositions. The examples clarify how important it is to know the correct articles.

The swimming style known as Butterfly (or previously as Dolphin-style), is recognised as an official swimming style since 1953. This video explains how top athletes achieve excellence in the pool.
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"28 divided by 7" may seem like an easy arithmetic problem. But in Otto Waalke's sketch, Mr Redlich is confronted with unsolvable difficulties when he tries to explain this to his son.

Diving from a tower is officially called platform diving, and has a long Olympic tradition, having been an official Olympic sport since 1904.
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The high jump has been an Olympic discipline since 1896 for men and since 1928 for women. In this clip, the predominant jumping technique, the Fosbury flop, is explained and demonstrated step-by-step. Copyright: Deutsche Presse Agentur [The German Press Agency]

Yabla reporter Cettina asks the people from Linkenheim how they are going to spend Christmas. How does this compare to how you celebrate Christmas? Enjoy watching!

After gaining a few insights into the theater play Rain Man in the first part, the actors are now invited for an interview at rheinmaintv.

Fifty ice-hockey fans, big and small, were given the opportunity to train with the Frankfurt Lions and their new sports director Erich Kühnhackl.

Many children dream of a cute and loyal dog. But before parents grant their children's wish, they should be aware of the great responsibility that pet ownership entails, so as to prevent dogs from being neglected Christmas presents.
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Yabla reporter Cettina is out and about asking people about their plans for New Year's Eve as well as their resolutions for the coming year. Enjoy! Oh, and Happy New Year!

The German articles "der", "die" and "das" cause many people quite a headache. Although there are helpful rules for some nouns - e.g. all words ending with "-heit", "-keit" or "-ung" are feminine - but in most cases you have to learn the articles by heart. In this clip, that's why Barbara's helping her students practice using the correct articles with various nouns. Viel Spaß!

Inspired by an advertisement, Barbara has created an exercise for her students. The topic is called "What does a human being need?" In this first clip they read the practice text and clarify unfamiliar vocabulary.