Hallo! = Hola!

Heute bin ich alleine, meine Schwester liegt krank im Bett. = Hello I am alone, my sister is in bed because she is ill.

Schwester = sister
krank = ill
Bett = bed
liegen = to lie
im Bett liegen = to be in bed

Sie hat sich beim letzten Mal erkältet. In Rheinland - Pfalz, mit ihrem dünnen Hemd. = She caught a cold last time, in Rheinland - Pfalz, with her thin shirt.

sich erkälten = to catch a cold
erkältet = to have a cold
dünn = thin
Hemd = shirt

Das kleine dumme Ding. = The little stupid thing

Ding = thing
klein = little
dumm = stupid

The use of Ding / thing in reference to a person seems to be a slang among youngsters in Nordrhein - Westfalen.

Thema heute ist Thüringen. = The topic of today is Thüringen.

thema = topic
heute = today
sein - ist = to be - is

Obwohl hier im Moment alles weiß ist, nennt man Thüringen auch "das grüne Herz Deutschlands", wegen der vielen Wälder. = Although everything is white at the moment, Thüringen is cold the green heart of Germany due to his large forests.

obwohl = although
weiß = white
nennen - nennt = to call - calls
grün = green
wegen = because
viele = many
Wald - Wälder = forest - forests


Man kann hier sogar richtig Wintersport machen. = Here you can do winter sport.

man = one / you / we, transformtion in passive voice
sogar = even
Wintersport = winter sport
machen = to do

Es gibt in Thüringen eigentlich keine wirklich großen Städte, sondern eher so mittelgroße wie Erfurt, Jena oder Gotha. = En Thüringen there are no big cities, but only only middle - sized ones like Erfurt, Jena or Gotha.

wirklich = really
groß = big
Stadt - Städte = city - cities
wie = as

Aber weil meine kleine Schwester heute nicht dabei ist, kann ich endlich mal über Kultur reden. = But due to the fact that my sister is not here today, we can finally talk about culture.

aber = but
weil = because (conjunción)
können - kann = can - he can
Kultur = culture
reden = to speak

Sehr berühmt für ihre kulturellen und geschichtlichen Stätten sind zum Beispiel die Stadt Weimar, = Very famouse for their cultural and historical places are for example the city of Weimar,

sehr = very
berühmt = famous
kulturell = cultural
geschichtlich = historical
Beispiel = example
Stadt = city

die Wartburg und das historische Erfurt mit dem Dom und der Krämerbrücke. = the Wartburg and the historical center of Erfurt with the cathedral and the bridge of Krämer.

Weimar is the city where a lot of very important writers, poets and philosophers lived in the 18th century, like Schiller and Goethe who are still today the core of the german literature and culture. La Wartburg is famous because Martin Luther lived there from 1520 / 1521. At the Wartburg he translated the Bible from Greek to German.

Schön, oder? = Nice, isn' t it?

schön = nice

DAS IST STINKLANGWEILIG! =It' s completely boring!

langweilig = boring
stinklanweilig = very boring

Actually stinklangweilig is a compound word as well, composed of stinken (to stink) and langweilig (boring).

Mist, meine Schwester kommt, ich muss aufhören. Die kleine Nervensäge. = Darn, my sister comes, I have to stop. The little nag.

Mist = bullshit
aufhören = to stop
Nervensäge = nag

Nevensäge is another compound word, as we have already said, there are a lot of them in German. The word is compound of the words Nerven, nervs, and the verb sägen, to saw. A Nervensäge is therefore someone who saws nerves.

Bis zum nächsten Mal! = Until next time!