You’re more of a night owl? Let this German saying prove you otherwise: In the northern Renaissance already, Erasmus of Rotterdam coined this phrase. And he is the prince of humanists - who else would know better than him?
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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.