Can anyone explain to me how I could get German TV channels (alongside my English TV channels)

[emkana]

We currently only have Freeview

You can get (free) German tv by installing a satellite dish and aiming it at 19.2 East - you can either get a separate satellite dish or use one which has several LNBS (can receive signals from more than one satellite) dish. We're just in the process of installing ours, so I'm still learning myself .

We have two satellite dishes, bought from Lidl, at a cost of £60 each. The one pointed at 19.2 East gets all the regular German channels.

It's a pain to set up, and we have two separate satellite boxes, but it's the cheapest option, AFAIK.

We've got a traditional satellite dish too and it works really well, I also check out the Austrian and German Ebay sites for cheap videos and DVDs

WE have one that aims at both the German and the British satellite dishes, this one

We ordered it online and it is great. One dish, one receiver.

Or would be if DH would get around to installing it again now we have moved.

We are on SKY - basic package - and I watch channel 794 (German/English channel). Some of it is in English, some in German, sometimes atrocious pronunciation of English, sometimes very good. [hmmm]

Bringing up little bun English/German and was hoping to get some French in there as well. Bit rusty though.

German seems a bit pointless as most Germans speak English - and by the time he is grown up they probably all will. But hey - it's more than about sheer practilicalities...

Its true, many 'Continental Europeans' do speak English quite well, but in my experience of working in business it is a huge advantage to speak your customers' language... plus, as you said wildwind, its also about factors as culture and overall brain developement (apparently bilingual children have more 'brain connections' or something like that ).