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Everyone’s crazy about football…
…these days! Yes! The big football ‘Fest’ starts tomorrow! It’s funny because it seems that even people normally not that into football or watching sports in general give in to the overwhelming fever.
No matter where you live, whether you call this sport football or soccer (or Fußball, calcio, fútbol, piłka nożna, サッカー or whatever else…), [...]
Cinematic Trauma
Allow me to be a little off topic today. This post will not be just about languages or cultural differences but more generally about the cinema experience.
I went to see ‘Robin Hood’ last Friday and based on that experience I came up with a list on how to enjoy your cinema visit in Germany:
Do not [...]
Bierkastenrennen & Vatertag – new German rites – Part 2
I mentioned a Bollerwagen last week; this funny vehicle plays a significant role on the so-called Father’s Day (sometimes also called Men Day). It’s so important because it’s used to transport beer and is therefore the best indication on how much alcohol the Germans (German men) drink this day (they need to transport the alcohol [...]
Bierkastenrennen & Vatertag – new German rites – Part 1
It’s common knowledge that Germans really do love their beer. It’s so dear to them that there are even special holidays and festivals evolving around this topic.
On Saturday I took part in the traditional, annual Bierkastenrennen (beer box race). It’s not a race commonly known to everyone but it is gaining more and more interest [...]
How to become a German – der Einbürgerungstest
Yesterday I was watching ‚Der große deutsche Einbürgerungs-Test‘ on German TV, a show on the naturalisation test that applicants have to pass if they want to get the German citizenship.
They had a couple of not German-born ‘Promis’ (celebs) as guests and the audience divided into 5 groups: teachers, students, civil servants, traditionalists and immigrants. They [...]
Volcanic ash everywhere!
If I was to choose a word I’ve heard most in the recent day it would definitely be volcanic ash…
I’m just wondering if it should be the word of the day, week (the volcano cloud crisis is in its 5th day already), or month??
Glad that I haven’t planned any air travel for the nearest past [...]
Hide & Seek
German is a language famous for its compounds. It’s true that you can combine the words (preferably many, many nouns) until you arrive at something as illegible and incomprehensible as Donaudampfschiffahrtsgesellschaftskapitän.
What I’ve been fascinated by recently are compound words that hide ‘something special’ in them, this week I took words with body parts hidden in [...]
When did Krieg der Sterne become Star Wars? Part 2
Hope you all had a nice Easter weekend! I did and I even went to the cinema on Saturday to see the new “Alice in Wonderland”. Which brings me back on track to my film titles topic. Well, not Alice herself (this title has been translated neatly) but the cinema.
Looking at the titles of films [...]
When did Krieg der Sterne become Star Wars?
I’ve had this discussion a hundred times before but yesterday we were watching TV with my flatmate and we were getting annoyed by the TV commercials for films. Well, actually not the commercials themselves but the titles of the films or even more precisely their translations into German. Much has been said and written about [...]
English, German, EuroEnglish??
Recently I’ve come across a funny article on a 5 year phase-in plan to simplify the English spelling in order to create the official language of the EU called “EuroEnglish”. What comes out of this ‘project’ in the end strongly reminds me of the speech delivered by European Commissioner for Energy Günther Oettinger from Germany.
The [...]
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