Looking back at the year | A Coffee Break with Thomas
12/17/20259 min
In this thoughtful Coffee Break German mini-episode, Thomas takes you into one of the German-speaking world’s favourite end-of-year traditions: the Jahresrückblick. From nostalgic TV shows to personal memories, you’ll learn how Germans talk about looking back and how to do it yourself.
Discover useful expressions like etwas Revue passieren lassen as Thomas guides you through each phrase with clear examples.
Whether you’re wrapping up your year, revisiting highlights from 2025, or simply expanding your vocabulary, this cosy end-of-year episode is the perfect way to reflect auf Deutsch.
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[musik läuft im hintergrund] Hallo und herzlich willkommen zu einer neuen Folge von Coffee Break German. Es ist so weit. Das Jahr zweitausendfünfundzwanzig neigt sich dem Ende zu. Just two more weeks and this year is coming to an end. It's exactly this time of the year when you can read one word in German media again and again. Der Jahresrückblick. Let's find out together what that word means and how you can create your own personal little Jahresrückblick. [musik] I feel the end of a year is a natural point to think back about all the things that happened, die schönen Momente, die traurigen und auch die schwierigen. In German, we have an expression to look back at something that is actually inspired by a French word. It is etwas Revue passieren lassen. Or to give you an example sentence: Ich lasse das Jahr Revue passieren. I am looking back at the year going through what happened one memory at a time. It kind of has this context of like chronologically going through your memories. And it is also definitely a phrase that you will hear a lot during the time of the year. However, the other word