Dead satisfied
Yesterday I visited Ohlsdorfer Friedhof. If you weren’t looking carefully, you might miss that this is a cemetery. It is laid out much more like a park or arboretum and is so large that there are bus...
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It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil,...
View ArticleSay a little prayer for the language learner
I recently noticed the similarity between the German words beten – “to pray” – and bitten – “to ask or beg someone [for something]” – a similarity that was highlighted when one looks at their past...
View ArticleUntil we meet (us) again
I’m working my way through »250 Grammatik-Übungen: Deutsch als Fremdsprache« which covers A1-B2 in the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages...
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