We have had our household goods for nearly a month now. We have had Internet installed for over a week. However, we are still without television. The first time the Deutsch Telekom gentlemen were here they were unsuccessful at getting the cable to work correctly on the TV. They returned a second time and came to the conclusion that it is not their problem because the cable connection is working….and it is our TV that is “broken”.

Sadly, they are right. If we connect the cable set-up to the 15 inch, $99, Walmart-special, TV we can watch perfect cable…in German. When we connect the big, expensive, TV we get nothing! After hours of researching (is it a HDMI issue? PAL conversion problem? Do we even want to watch TV again? Do we have to buy a European television too?) we settled on ordering a converter from Amazon. Hopefully we will actually have our hands on it in 60-90 days!

All these headaches lead us to the fun discoveries in the electronics department of the local department store. Without television, we figured we would start watching movies in German with English subtitles. We bought a region-free DVD player and then headed to the movie section.

The covers of the movies are generally the same as in the US. It was “Little Fockers” that tipped me off to differences in translation. An entire three weeks of Intensive German classes means that I can actually understand every single word of the title of “Little Fockers”! Yeah!! However, it definitely doesn’t translate directly.

Joe and I wandered around all the movies and laughed at the titles that got lost in translation. “Money Pit” is my favorite! The German title of “The Dilemma” should have some familiar words too!! Check out these beauties below….

Movie Cover	German Title	Translation	English Title
	Meine Frau, unsere  Kinder, und ich	My Wife, Our Kids, and I	Little Fockers
	Mein Schatz, unsere Familie und ich	My Sweetie, Our Families and I	Four Christmases
	Freundschaftplus	Friendship Plus	Friends with Benefits
	Jungfrau(40), männlich, sucht…	Virgin (40), male, searches…	The 40 Year Old Virgin
	Geschenkt ist noch zu teuer	Gift is still too expensive	Money Pit
	Wenn Liebe  so einfach wäre	If love would be so simple	It’s Complicated
	Zeiten des Aufruhrs	Times of turmoil	Revolutionary Road
	Dickste Freunde	The Thickest Friends	The Dilemma