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Sommermärchen 2010
I just can’t leave it. Simply can’t stray far from the football topic, I hope you can forgive that. It’s just this football fever! I’m infected, I guess. But today I want to tell you about something...
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Public Viewing or Rudelgucken?
So, it happened, the Sommermärchen is over. It’s a pity but it’s high time I started writing about other stuff again and being among 4 best football teams in the world is (or at least should be) still...
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Urlaubsreif
I love German word formation creativity! Urlaubsreif is another example from my log list of words that are somehow German-only i.e. usually cannot be translated into other languages with just one...
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Le Tête en Friche – My Afternoons with Marguerite or rather My Afternoons...
Le Tête en Friche is a French film directed by Jean Becker and with Gérard Depardieu and Gisèle Casadesus. It’s FilmFest time here in Hamburg, you know, so I’ve been spending quite a lot of time in...
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Winter surprised winter service employees…
…again! There’s a saying in Poland Winter surprised winter service employees and (un)funnily enough it comes to be true every year! This year’s calendar winter just started yesterday and yet it has...
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Tokioter, Hallenser and Ivorer – Countries & Cities and their Unusual Names...
Recently I’ve been reading quite a lot about Tokyo and its inhabitants in the German media. The occasion is a very sad and deeply shocking one but I’m pretty sure many of you have been reading about...
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Little Easter cheat-sheet
Time flies and it’s almost Easter time again! The time between Christmas and Easter passed really quickly for me this time even though Easter is so late this year. I always find it quite confusing how...
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Royal Wedding Vocabulary – Fashion
Have you been following the British royal wedding recently? I have to admit I’m a big fan of the British monarchy and hence have been watching and reading a lot about the fairy-tale wedding of the...
View ArticleHappy Birthday, Freddie Mercury!
Today is a special day. It’s Freddie Mercury’s birthday. He would have turned 65 today. As he’s been one of my all-time favourite artists since I was a little child (thank you, Mum & Dad!), I...
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Politischer Aschermittwoch
http://www.sxc.hu/photo/1378633 Today I’d like to write about something that is very typically (and only) German. Most of you might be familiar with the idea of Aschermittwoch (Ash Wednesday) in...
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