by Christine Burgmer | Aug 11, 2017 | Allgemein |
How much do you know about David Beckham? Do the BBC quiz to find out. And just in case you don’t know who I’m talking about … David Beckham was captain of the English national football team from 2000 to 2009.
by Christine Burgmer | Aug 10, 2017 | Allgemein |
How would you translate the German word “Zettelwirtschaft”? Piles of paperwork? Paper chaos? Bits of paper everywhere? You don’t know the word? Deutsche Welle explains it nicely.
by Christine Burgmer | Aug 9, 2017 | Allgemein |
You’re having a conversation with someone, but would like to get away gracefully. What can you say? On the phone I might say something like: “I should let you go.” “I hate to interrupt, but I simply must take a bio-break.”...
by Christine Burgmer | Aug 8, 2017 | Allgemein |
Have you ever seen the abbreviation p.a.? As in the sentence: Sales increased by 5 per cent p.a. The abbreviation p.a. is short for per annum and is a Latin phrase meaning per year. You might know that I’m not a big lover of abbreviations, as I find they can...
by Christine Burgmer | Aug 7, 2017 | Allgemein |
“No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.” Aristotle
by Christine Burgmer | Aug 6, 2017 | Allgemein |
Germans eat tons of potatoes every year, according to this Deutsche Welle article (and slideshow). Whether fried, baked, sliced, grated, rolled, as dumplings or shredded, mixed with onions and deep fried. Did you know that over 5,000 varieties are grown...
