{"id":1535,"date":"2021-04-14T06:09:07","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T06:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uberlin.co.uk\/june-2011-page-2-of-2-uberlin\/"},"modified":"2021-04-14T06:09:07","modified_gmt":"2021-04-14T06:09:07","slug":"june-2011-page-2-of-2-uberlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uberlin.co.uk\/june-2011-page-2-of-2-uberlin\/","title":{"rendered":"June 2011 &#8211; Page 2 of 2 &#8211; \u00fcberlin"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post hentry\">\n<h5 class=\"postDate\"><abbr class=\"published\" title=\"2011-06-04T09:00:51+0000\">June 4, 2011<\/abbr><\/h5>\n<div class=\"postContent\">\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"\/worte-und-musik\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Worte und Musik<\/a><\/h3>\n<h4 class=\"vcard author\">by <span class=\"fn\">James Glazebrook<\/span><\/h4>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p id=\"top\"\/>Phew! We&#8217;ve finished German classes! Not that we know the language now &#8211; far from it. We&#8217;ve just finished our eight weeks of 4 x 3 hour lessons (plus homework) and decided to take a breather. While we are relieved (we have our little lives back!) we&#8217;re a bit worried that, as <a href=\"\/a-day-in-the-life\/\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', '\/a-day-in-the-life\/', 'shut-ins');\" title=\"A Day in the Life of \u00dcberlin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shut-ins<\/a>, we won&#8217;t practice and will forget what little <em>Deutsch <\/em>we managed to learn. That&#8217;s why I came up with the idea of combining our love of music with our eagerness to improve our language skills: by listening to songs with German lyrics. Here&#8217;s our taster course.<\/p>\n<p><strong>David Bowie &#8211; Helden<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"650\" height=\"517\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GXV3rlr9G04?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Obvious choice, but potentially helpful. Knowing the English version forwards and backwards helps make connections, especially with this sync of the original video with the German language recording. Chock full of useful personal pronouns like &#8220;ich&#8221; and &#8220;du&#8221; and practical words like &#8220;Tag&#8221; (&#8220;day&#8221;), &#8220;Zeiten&#8221; (&#8220;times&#8221;), &#8220;Mauer&#8221; (&#8220;wall&#8221;; very useful here in Berlin). Although I&#8217;m not sure I&#8217;ll ever have to tell someone that I wish they could swim as dolphins can swim.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Peaches &#8211; Keine Melodien<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"650\" height=\"517\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8b3sdPGL5p0?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This version of Berlin band Jeans Team&#8217;s &#8220;Keine Melodien&#8221; by the city&#8217;s <a href=\"\/peaches-does-herself\/\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', '\/peaches-does-herself\/', 'resident electroshocker');\" title=\"Peaches Does Herself\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">resident electroshocker<\/a> is like punk rock Sesame Street. You need to learn numbers right? Well, listen to this earworm just once and you&#8217;ll never forget &#8220;eins, zwei, drei, vier&#8221;. I&#8217;ve had a quick search and it doesn&#8217;t look like Peaches has done a German version of &#8220;now I know my ABCs next time won&#8217;t you sing along with me&#8221;. <em>Schade<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nena &#8211; 99 Luftballons<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"650\" height=\"517\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9whehyybLqU?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Apart from getting into double-digit numbers (&#8220;ninety nine&#8221; = &#8220;neunundneunzig&#8221;), Germany&#8217;s most famous pop song is of limited use. With good reason, no one really remembers badly-translated English lyrics like &#8220;everyone&#8217;s a Captain Kirk, with orders to identify&#8221;, so hearing the original won&#8217;t spark flashes of comprehension. Still, required listening when you&#8217;re preparing to board the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.air-service-berlin.de\/index.php5?page=190-11-0-1-1-1-3\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.air-service-berlin.de\/index.php5?page=190-11-0-1-1-1-3', 'Hi Flyer');\" title=\"Hi Flyer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hi Flyer<\/a>, the Die Welt-sponsored <em>Heliumballon<\/em> that hovers over Berlin.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lady Gaga &#8211; Schei\u00dfe<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"650\" height=\"517\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EbumjnLFmoE?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t speak German but I\u00a0can if you like&#8221;.\u00a0This song from Gaga&#8217;s new album is shocking (not in the way she hopes), but it&#8217;s a good guide to the mangled AngloDeutsch that Berlin&#8217;s international community speaks. Plus its scatological celebration of freedom is like the Disney version of the crazy shit (LITERALLY)  that goes down in the city&#8217;s underground dark rooms: &#8220;I\u2019ll take you out tonight \/\u00a0Do whatever you like \/\u00a0Schei\u00dfe-schei\u00dfe be mine, Schei\u00dfe be mine&#8221;. And, seeing as our German teacher didn&#8217;t agree that the first thing you need to learn in a foreign language is the swear words, this&#8217;ll have to do for now.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ellen Allien &#8211; Sehnsucht<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"650\" height=\"517\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Rh99SA57PJc?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>We grown-up emos need words like &#8220;longing&#8221;, and it doesn&#8217;t take Google Translate to tell you that&#8217;s what this song is about.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Peter Gabriel &#8211; Schock den Affen<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"650\" height=\"517\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/H8-T_Yv7BvM?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The phrase &#8220;(don&#8217;t) shock the monkey&#8221; could only ever be of use in a zoo, and even then it pretty much goes without saying. Regardless, there&#8217;s something infectious about Gabriel&#8217;s love of words, English or otherwise, that we find inspiring. This was a labour of love, as Gabriel originally struggled to find a label willing to release an album&#8217;s worth of German versions of his songs. And like one of the few YouTube comments not whining about his accent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/comment?lc=19qvcEFeDSPaiyApsuIjdpyy585sAAtxYB3wXJt1Td8\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/comment?lc=19qvcEFeDSPaiyApsuIjdpyy585sAAtxYB3wXJt1Td8', 'says');\" title=\"Peter Gabriel Schock den Affen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">says<\/a>, &#8220;Peter is\ufeff a genius in any\ufeff language.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"ssb-share ssb-share-1608 defualt\" post_id=\"1608\">\n<div class=\"defualt-button-fb\"> <iframe src=\"\/\/web.archive.orghttp:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http:\/\/www.uberlin.co.uk\/worte-und-musik\/&amp;width&amp;layout=button_count&amp;action=like&amp;show_faces=false&amp;share=false&amp;height=21&amp;appId=743541755673761\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; height:21px;\" allowtransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe> \t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"defualt-button-twitter\"> \t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-url=\"\/worte-und-musik\/\">Tweet<\/a>  \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"postMeta\">\n<div class=\"postMetaCategory\">Category: <a href=\"\/category\/music\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Music<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"postMetaTag\">Tags: <a href=\"\/tag\/daily-deutsch\/\" rel=\"tag\">Daily Deutsch<\/a> : <a href=\"\/tag\/david-bowie\/\" rel=\"tag\">David Bowie<\/a> : <a href=\"\/tag\/ellen-allien\/\" rel=\"tag\">Ellen Allien<\/a> : <a href=\"\/tag\/lady-gaga\/\" rel=\"tag\">Lady Gaga<\/a> : <a href=\"\/tag\/nena\/\" rel=\"tag\">Nena<\/a> : <a href=\"\/tag\/peaches\/\" rel=\"tag\">Peaches<\/a> : <a href=\"\/tag\/peter-gabriel\/\" rel=\"tag\">Peter Gabriel<\/a><\/div>\n<p>                            <\/p>\n<div class=\"comments\">                                 <a href=\"\/worte-und-musik\/#comments\">6 comments<\/a>          <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"pageNav\">\n<div class=\"prev\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"next\"><a href=\"\/2011\/06\/\">&raquo;<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 4, 2011 Worte und Musik by James Glazebrook Phew! We&#8217;ve finished German classes! Not that we know the language now &#8211; far from it. We&#8217;ve just finished our eight weeks of 4 x 3 hour lessons (plus homework) and decided to take a breather. While we are relieved (we have our little lives back!) 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