It seems like the world can not decide what it wants. It is throwing some of life’s worst at the people I care about the most. Stuff that you would not wish on anyone. But it is happening just the same, and all you can do from across the ocean is show your love and …
At the risk of sounding like a broken record, here I go again writing about language. I can’t help it, really. As a stranger in a strange land, language is one of the dominating forces in my life these days, and I spend an inordinate amount of time thinking about vocabulary, grammar, and communication. Before …
Isn’t it funny how where you are can change how you answer where you come from? How much more complicated this question is than it actually seems? When learning a new language, these are some of the first words you learn how to say so that you can answer the requisite foreigner questions: Who are …
I stole the title of my post right from the Spiegel Online article explaining the latest frozen snack available here in Deutschland… A German frozen food company hopes to raise sales with a new product: Obama fingers. The tender, fried chicken bits come with a tasty curry sauce. The company says it was unaware of …