Published: 20 Nov 12 17:20 CET | Print version
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Students taking a German language exam were left giggling into their test papers after a song with sexual lyrics was used in a listening comprehension test. But teachers and some more sensitive students were outraged.
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Your comments about this article:
oh please. talk about somebody having her knickers in a twist...
this is all really pretty tame. There are much grittier things going on in the heads of typical 16-year-olds. Let alone the fact that many of them have already actually had sex.
Sad.
The whole song contains children talk like "I like you a little" , "I like to walk with you hand in hand"... Thats so lame. How should anyone learn a language if you serve them infantile contents that noone wants to hear. The music is not bad though.
Come on, this is not a news! There should be more important things to write about!
@iseedaftpeople & @crastin you are aware germany banned rammstein's last album cover for portraying a spanking, right?
@grimbax nz allows a wide range of opinions in a (fairly) open society. those who might have said "yeah, that song was a bit of a joke" aren't gonna make the news, obviously.
@mako - tell me about it. freizeit stomp, anyone?