Hello and welcome to the LINGUA FRANCA Sprachschule blog. As the temperatures plummet here in Berlin, we are presenting some light comic relief to help you battle the cold.
Henning Wehn is a German stand-up comedian who lives and works in London. He is also the self-styled German Comedy Ambassador To The UK.
In this series of short videos for the BBC, he introduces the British to some of the quirks of the German language. In the video linked below, he looks at the strange phenomenon of the pseudo-anglicism – English words that Germans use, but don’t mean anything (or something completely different) in English. Click the link to see the video, and then add any other pseudo-anglicism you know in the comments below!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/german/comedy/pseudo_anglicisms.shtml