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Showing posts with label language. Show all posts
Showing posts with label language. Show all posts
Friday, January 21, 2022

Shooting in English

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Vor Kurzem hat jemand in einer Facebook-Gruppe für Falkner eine Frage gepostet: „ Gäbe es zufällig Falkner aus Bayern, deren Tiere man für...
Wednesday, August 4, 2021

Reverence for Life

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Not long after I moved to Germany during a visit in Wisconsin I was introduced to Dr. Hans-Udo Jüttner, who has since become a friend. He wa...
Tuesday, April 13, 2021

Hawk or Buzzard?

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This is as much a language post as a bit about certain birds of prey. And as language goes, part of it concerns “two countries separated by ...
Wednesday, February 24, 2021

Changing Language, Part 2

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Language changes. This is nothing new. If you doubt me, have a go at reading Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales in the original Middle English ...
Sunday, February 21, 2021

Changing Language, Part 1

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I’ve been teaching German for 22 years (since 1999), and although I have also taught English (American Literature in the US, informal conver...
Thursday, August 16, 2018

Benefits of Learning German

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The answer to the question "Why should I learn German?" may seem obvious when the person asking is living in a German-speaking cou...
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Saturday, July 28, 2018

German and Swahili

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Jambo! Habari gani? When I went back to school in 1997 to obtain a minor to teach German (I already had my B.A. in English and my t...
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Saturday, April 21, 2018

Book Review: The Awful English Grammar

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"If I looked like Mr. Bean, I would cry myself to sleep every night." "Too true." "This is an example of the se...
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