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Things I might never learn
There are some things that are very unintuitive and hard to learn in another language. Maybe the things that are difficult to learn are individual – maybe not. I’ll have to ask around. For me...
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Coffee
I don’t like coffee so I am not speaking from experience here but the topic coffee has to be covered in any blog about America and American culture. Coffee is very much a part of American everyday...
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Onomatopoeic Words
Onomatopoeia in action, pic: http://www.englishcafe.com I know from my own experience as an ESL (English as Second Language) speaker that “onomatopoeic” is an extremely valuable word when it comes to...
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Rare and amusing insults
Call him a hobbledehoy and he'll think you are a total geek, pic: articles.nydailynews.com Thanks to a friend’s Facebook post I just found Merriam-Webster’s list of 10 rare and amusing insults. That...
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Even Madder
No text needed , pic: vampyrekisses.com As discussed the other day there are a number of slang words for a mental institution but that number pales in comparison to the words and expressions used to...
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Egads
No swearing allowed, “egats1″ should be alright, pic: ielanguages.com I haven’t heard that in a while and when I read it in a blog the other day I thought “wow, that is a good one and so quaint!” One...
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Dirty words
dirty words, no longer just the usual suspects and now featuring what used to be honorable words like government and liberal, pic: http://new.exchristian.net/2011/09/dirty-words.html In 1972 the...
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Presumed English
A few words recently came to my attention that Germans often get wrong but that are not false friends per se. It is more that everybody presumes that these are English/American words because they...
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Articles
Those little articles can be tricky beasts and their usage varies between English and German in subtle ways that are sometimes difficult to pinpoint. Before looking at differences is usage it makes...
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Especially devious false friends
My husband pointed out a particularly devious pair of false friends for the German speaking crowd out there to me the other day and so I decided to write a quick blog about it. The culprits are:...
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