Hard work pays off? Maybe. But then why is it the dumbest farmers who have the fattest potatoes? And what is it about farmers and potatoes anyway? In this clip, you won’t get a shortcut to success, but you will get superfluous knowledge about a famous German saying.
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Ich versteh nur Bahnhof - when it comes to idioms, expressions and proverbs, you only understand train station? In this series of short clips, the studierendenWERK BERLIN explains the most common German sayings and sheds some light on the origins, history and contexts they are used in.
17 сен 2024