English language lecturer/Lektorin; writer. Privat unterwegs. New essay collection out now: The Therapy of Puppy School
Germany via Australia
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I thought, when I started keeping notes on life during a pandemic – or at least my life – that it would come to be some sort of pandemic diaries. But that didn’t happen. Lots of other things did, though.
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Perhaps summer, my beloved summer, is the death, if indeed there is one. Its heat, its frantic growth, its rush. The brightest blaze, a cycle’s peak, before the yellow and red drop to the earth and she prepares to start again.
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German/English translators/linguists: is there a convention when it comes to whether or not buildings or famous places get a German name or the English one is used? Das weiße Haus but Empire State Building, zB
At some point, towards the end of our week there, our son looks at the North Sea, driven wild by wind, the water like piano keys under a mad pianist and says, ‘it looks like music.’
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It should get easier, shouldn’t it? As the language emerges more vividly & the cultural quirks lose their novelty, as the traditions get folded into the seasons, shouldn’t this mess of longing & resentment, love & adventure just bloody sort itself out?
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I was an English and French double major. Went in deep for the humanities. I’m so grateful for humanities training—I learned how to think critically, to research, to communicate on many levels, to figure out nearly anything I need to learn relatively easily.
For a decade, humanities enrollment has plummeted. What’s going on? In this week’s @NewYorker, I report at two campuses—ASU and Harvard—and ask “what it might mean to graduate a college generation with less education in the human past” than any before. newyorker.com/magazine/2023/…
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Kinder ab der 2. Klasse, denen das Lesen noch etwas schwer fällt, können ab sofort wieder ausgebildeten Hunden in den #Kieler Büchereien vorlesen. Vorlesehündin Lotta und #Vorlesehund Bo freuen sich schon darauf. Zur Anmeldung ➡️ sohub.io/a2nv
ALT Eine Hündin (Lotta) liegt mit dem Kopf auf einem Stapel Bücher
ALT Ein Hund (Bo) liegt auf dem Boden. Neben ihm zwei Kinderbücher.
I recently had the revelation that, for whatever reason, I have long expected that at some point, I will be finished with this process. Like a crash course, this sense of pushing myself, will end.
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Culture on the couch tonight. Tuning into one of the lectures in the "21st-Century Joyce: Ulysses 100 Years On" series, a joint effort between Flensburg Uni and Kiel: uni-flensburg.webex.com/uni-…
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