German - Lonely Planet

Don't be put off by the fact that German tends to join words together to express a single notion - it's not hard to tell parts of words, and you'll have fun recognising 'the Football World Cup qualifying match' hidden within Fussballweltmeisterschaftsqualifikationsspiel!

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