Finally my first post after a long break! And, after long investigations, I picked up 10 most useful idioms in German. And I promise you´ll meet them in everyday´s situations, media etc. Without further ado, let´s start! Tote Hose Literally: “Dead trousers”. It means something boring or describes a place or an event where nothing´s …
You may feel relieved or disappointed if I tell you that this post isn´t about Duolingo. Being one of the 35 languages available there, alongside with Hawaiian and Swahili, Swedish isn´t THAT exotic. Thus I tested three alternative resources (all available for desktop and mobile) which put more love and exclusiveness into Swedish. Let´s go! …
Before my first business trip to Barcelona, I thought I was able to speak Spanish more or less. But then the first dinner came. Just a glance at the restaurant menu forced me to switch to the English translation – and I was quite ashamed of that. And then those endless conversations about food and …
There is barely a language within Europe which has no borrowed vocabulary. In many cases, the borrowed words come from completely different cultural environments interacting with the European continent throughout history. Some of the influences were peaceful and entered Europe via trade routes. Other ones came with the conquerors and brought devastations first rather than …
To be honest, I barely know student books of foreign languages teaching how to order a meal in real situations. And I mean very real, everyday situations. I am entitled to state it after years of ordering kebab (Döner) in Germany. A typical conversation between kebab sellers and their clients is like breaking all possible …
You are learning Swedish and want to start reading quickly and painlessly? It seems that there is a solution. In my first-ever overview of a language-learning website, I´d like to present a source which helps you to immerse into Swedish content from an A2 level. It calls 8 Sidor (“8 pages”) and is basically a …
The IT Crowd is one of my best-loved sitcoms ever, and I admit I binge-watch it repeatedly. The story is about two nerdy IT–experts, Roy and Moss, working in a basement of a fictional London company Reynholm Industries. Another main protagonist is Jen, working with Roy and Moss as the Head of IT. All of …
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 …
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. …