We don’t normally say that someone has a ‘free day’ as in German. We say that ‘he or she has got the day off‘. That means that he/she doesn’t have to work on that day.
Two other example sentences:
I’m going to take a day off to visit a former colleague of mine.
Shall we take a day off tomorrow to work in the garden?
We use a capital (large) letter at the beginning of a sentence. For example:
“We thought it would be useful to produce a little book.”
We also use a capital letter for the personal pronoun ‘I‘ (meaning ‘ich’). For example:
“What could I do?”
Using a small ‘i’ in a business email message is unprofessional. Sorry, I don’t like it! 🙁
“When in Rome, do as the Romans do.” Proverb
This is one of my favourite proverbs, and means that we should behave in the same way as the people around us behave.
I learned a lot from the Deutsche Welle’s slideshow on Germany’s traditional dress. I wonder if anyone on this site has seen any of these costumes. The only ones I know are ‘lederhosen’.
Did you know that in some villages in the Black Forest you can tell who is married and who isn’t by the colour of the pompoms on their hat? What a nice tradition. 🙂
We’ve seen or heard of people who can memorise lists of numbers in telephone books and the order of cards in a deck. And we most probably believe that we wouldn’t be able to do it. In this TED Talk video, Joshua Foer describes a technique, called ‘the memory palace’, showing that anyone can learn to remember things relatively easily. Go on, give it a try! 🙂
The Telegraph has collected a lot of strange signs – all to do with animals. Would you be able to do a better job? 😉
