So when you find yourself on the couch watching Bridget Jones’ Diary with a tub of ice cream, you are in fact feeding your grief bacon (or possibly turning into grief bacon itself). When you are going through a relationship breakup or other times of sadness, it’s common to put on a few pounds of 'Kummerspeck.' Literally meaning 'grief bacon,' this is the weight put on by emotional eating.

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Your language learning journey will require some helpful tools and resources to gain fluency. But for now, let’s get on with some hilarious German words and strange German phrases! We have also put together some beautiful German words over in our other blog post if you are feeling extra intrigued by the German language. This is one of the greatest things about learning languages, to discover words which exist in one language but don’t have any equivalent in your own – or any other for that matter!

German boasts many unique, highly-specific words that have no literal English translation. Thanks to its lifelong love affair with compound nouns, the German language certainly has its fair share of funny words and weird phrases.

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