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"Das ist nicht das Gelbe vom Ei" is a colorful German idiom that literally translates to "That is not the yolk of the egg". 🥚🍳 In English, the equivalent expression would be "It's not all it's cracked up to be" or "It's not the best". In context, this idiom is used when

We were welcomed very warmly at the Herderschule this morning, and are looking forward to the rest of our week here! 🇩🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Ein toller Tag in Marburg heute! We visited the beautiful town of Marburg, learned about the history of the town and the stories written here by the brothers Grimm, then finished off with some ice cream and pedalos on the Lahn 🇩🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿☀️

A wander around the beautiful town of Wetzlar, learning a little about the story of Goethe’s time there, and a visit to Leica Welt 🇩🇪

A trip to Frankfurt and a visit to the Deutsches Filmmuseum today 🇩🇪

A visit to the Mathematikum in Gießen this morning 🇩🇪

Very proud of our 4 S5s who have just completed a week of work experience here in Germany. Well done to Marcus, Daniel, Ollie and Aira for their placements at the Mathematikum, Creative Arts, the Gießener Allgemeine Zeitung and the Gießen Marketing GmbH.

Think you’ll never need to know another language? Think again! Looking forward to following Harry Kane’s language journey! 🇩🇪

Welcome back everyone! 🇫🇷🇪🇸🇩🇪

Come along to Languages and Culture Club, on Thursday lunchtimes in room 97 with Miss Hunter - this week we’ll be celebrating European Day of Languages 🗣️

33 years ago, on 3 October 1990, a divided Germany was united. Today we celebrate the Day of German Unity.

Sightseeing and paddle boarding around Marseille for our S4 French Exchange pupils today 🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷

Higher German and Spanish linguists enjoyed a great day at Strathallan School ‘s Immersion Conference, including escape rooms, taboo, Dragons’ Den and much more!

We were delighted to host the 6 Schools' Immersion Day for Higher French this year with visiting pupils from Strathallan School, Glenalmond College , Fettes Languages , Merchiston News , Loretto and Morrison’s enjoying a range of language immersion workshops 🇫🇷

If you lose German from the curriculum, you miss out on the benefits of family ties with English, the most spoken native language in the EU, a major language of engineering, business & science & a gateway to Dutch & Scandinavian languages. Don’t close the doors that German opens.