COVID-19 ist still holding us captive and it made most of us reconsider our plans for 2020. Weekend city trips and open-air concerts are whether cancelled or postponed – with no concrete deadlines. The local businesses, however, are suffering most under the quarantine restrictions. The small shops, bars and restaurants, being once a part of …
Mastering the difference between the Spanish infinitive verbs SER and ESTAR at the very beginning of the learning process is essential for the future fluency as incorrect usage of them cause some funny situations while talking to the native speakers of Spanish or even bring you into troubles. Both verbs mean in English TO BE, …
The spread of COVID-19 urged a lot of us to work from home and this new experience seems to establish itself as a normal, permanent one in the post-corona era. In Germany, it became one of the highliest discussed topics in the media which inspired me to dedicate my next German vocabulary section to Denglish, …
According to some sources like sweden.se or visitsweden.com, the celebrating of Easter in Sweden goes back to its religious roots to a much lower extent than, I would say, in the countries of the Middle and Southeast Europe. It means family reunion and the commencement of the Spring rather than a mass in the church. …
Money Heist, one of my favourite crime drama series running on Netflix and beating the majority of well-advertised and high-ranked Hollywood analogues, tells us about life and death, love and hatred, friendship and treason and is, therefore, a rich source of useful Spanish vocabulary you will encounter in other series, daily news and suspense books. …
In my first-ever post, I am going to show an infographic displaying the most used basic German nouns regarding the so-called WGs (Wohngemeinschaften) – Germany´s most wide-spread form of living among the students, young employees and, of course, the expats trying to find their place in the rapidly growing cities like Berlin, Munich or Hamburg. …