Difficulty: Intermediate
Germany High German
Alina and Paula tell us about their visit to the Latin American Christmas market in Stuttgart. Watch to find out why they enjoyed it so much.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Germany High German Palatine German
Paula interviews people at Karlsruhe's Christmas market. She wants to know what presents they have bought and how they like the market.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Germany High German
Alina recites a magical Christmas poem by Joseph von Eichendorff, one of the most important poets of German Romanticism.
Difficulty: Beginner
Germany High German
This Epiphany—or Three Kings Day, Alina recites a poem by Heinrich Heine, a great German author from the 19th century.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Germany High German South German
Despite one couple whose idea of a romantic Valentine's Day is to visit the German Constitutional Court, Yabla star reporter Diane still manages to find some people with some more traditional ideas of love. What are you doing with your loved one this Valentine's Day?
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Germany
Sarah shows us around Karlsruhe's "Christkindlesmarkt" Christmas Market, which has three areas. She stops at various stands to buy a gingerbread heart, a mulled wine, and some alcohol-free children's punch.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Germany
Sarah continues exploring the Christmas market in Karlsruhe. She visits the talking "fairy tale boxes," the ice skating rink, and a stand where they make crêpes with Nutella!
Difficulty: Beginner
Germany
Yabla's own Jenny takes us on a tour of the Old Town of Heidelberg, an official UNESCO City of Literature.
Difficulty: Beginner
Germany
Yabla's own Jenny tells us more about the history of Heidelberg's famous landmarks.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Germany
Gabriela and Mira from Karlsruhe talk about SINGinKA, the local choir project they founded. Their group doesn't have the same structure as most choirs – and is therefore much more open to all types of singing enthusiasts!
Difficulty: Intermediate
Germany South German
Yabla star reporter Diane takes to the streets of Karlruhe to ask people about their plans for New Year's Eve and their resolutions for the coming year with a suprisingly diverse array of responses. Guten Rutsch!
Difficulty: Beginner
Germany
"Schneeflöckchen, Weißröckchen" ("Little snowflake, Little white skirt") is a beloved children's Christmas song in Germany.
Difficulty: Beginner
Germany
Yabla's own Cettina and Sabine tell us about St. Martin and the German tradition of making lanterns and singing songs to commemorate him.
Difficulty: Beginner
Germany
Eva talks about the various traditions associated with the celebration of Easter in Germany.
Difficulty: Beginner
Germany South German
Cettina reads Part 1 of "Das Aschenputtel," known in English as "Cinderella." By the way, you'll notice that the German word for Cinderella is neuter – which means that "es/ihm" here translates to "she/her."
Difficulty: Intermediate
Germany
Cettina reads Part 2 of "Das Aschenputtel," a fairy tale known in English as "Cinderella." (By the way, you'll notice that the German word for Cinderella is neuter – which means that "es/ihm" here translates to "she/her.")
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Germany South German
Although artist Katharina Kuczinski has always been drawn to painting, she first resolved at the age of nearly forty years to really follow this path.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Germany South German
The painter Katharina Kuczinski discusses how different viewers interpret her paintings differently.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Germany South German
In the third part of the interview with woman painter Katharina Kuczinski, we hear more about the key moments that brought her to painting, and about her experiences with exhibitions.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Germany High German South German
In this first segment, Yabla’s own reporter Diane interviews artist Monika Kaeser about her exhibition in the Faust Archive and Museum in Knittlingen, Baden-Württemberg. Ms. Kaeser takes impressions of carvings etched in the walls of medieval towers by those imprisoned there long ago and transforms them into fascinating watercolor images!
Difficulty: Intermediate
Germany High German South German
In this second of a two-part series, Diane resumes her interview with artist Monika Kaeser and our tour of her latest exhibition. Comprised, in part, of rubbings taken from medieval sites left by the socially ostracized, her work “in the present breathes [life into] the past and the future is born.”
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Germany South German
The painter Benno Treiber tells us about his latest exhibition in Leopoldshafen and about how he chose his subjects and his life the last twenty years Spain.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Germany South German
Yabla's own Tina interviews the artist Benno Treiber and his wife about their fascinating work and their lives in Germany and Spain. Enjoy!
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Germany North German South German
"Don't worry, be happy!" Or in the case of painter Ernst Mente at Der besondere Kunstmarkt in Leopoldshafen, "don't be depressed, just paint!" Mr. Mente discusses how he taught himself to paint after a career in the kitchen.
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