Last year I agreed to, and then sort of acted on srah’s (I bet that’s not the name (s)he was Christened with) Language Week; The idea being to blog in a language other than the one normaly used on your blog.
I’m tempted to use the kind of German I normally use for the “German word […]
I’m sure that Mr. Sparky could tell you a lot more about viral advertising than I could, although having received this advert from three different sources so far this morning, I reckon they’re doing a pretty good job.
“Brüller“, “sehr witzig” and so on the e-mails were titled. All I could think of was that the […]
I have a friend (no, really) who works for a large translating company, she sent me the following screenshot today. If you’re going to translate something from English to German, get a German native speaker to do it and if you want something translated from German to English, I charge very reasonable rates.
German Word […]
Untertiteln : Subtitles
My first sojourns into Europe were to Sweden, the Netherlands and then France. France was really just a few weeks with a family near Limoges as a school exchange, so that hardly counts. But in Sweden and Holland I got to watch some TV and it was in English, there were subtitles in […]
The most popular and visited page on this blog is the one about making (or rather, attempting to make) Aloo Paratha, complete with a dodgy recipe. It gets a minimum of ten to twenty hits a day from search engines. So what better way to improve stats than food-blogging. First off: pizza. Now, we all […]
“Zeugen Jehovahs“
Okay, it’s an easy one - “Jehovah’s Witnesses”, but what do you do when you find yourself on your doorstep talking to two of them? I could follow the example of my father who, when asked “If there was one thing that God could change in the world for you, what would it be?” […]
