Reposted from my LinkedIn post: Speaking good German doesn’t make you a native-speaker…or does it? We all know that as native-speakers, the way we communicate is intuitive and nuanced, and the language we use reflects the deep cultural knowledge and experiences we are infused with growing up with that language from early childhood. While that […]
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Reposted from my LinkedIn article: I’ve been meaning to write something about Chinese food translations for a while. But it’s impossible to write about Chinese food translations. It’s just too big. The CNN headline says it all. Food is already a huge topic. And Chinese food? That’s the dragon of food. You can’t separate it
Reposted from my LinkedIn Post: “…will now default to English — not because it’s better, but because it’s equally bad for everyone.”Glad to see Switzerland making steps to improve communication in a tiny country with huge language barriers. When I lived in the Swiss-German part of Switzerland in my early twenties, I had the quietest
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Reposted from my blog on Medium: Towards the end of a dinner of delicious Knödel (German dumpling) variations with mushroom sauce, followed by a curd cheese Knödel dessert with cherry and cream (with complimentary schnapps) at the Knödelwirtschaft restaurant in Neukölln, my German fiancée and I find ourselves talking about more banal matters, such as
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