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So Long, Farewell, Auf Wiedersehen, Goodbye

Jun 7th, 2010 | By Anna | Category: English

There comes a time when you must bid farewell to your adopted country and the time for me is nigh; in less than a week I shall be back in England’s green and pleasant land.



Typisch Deutsch?

May 31st, 2010 | By Anna | Category: English

The stereotypes of Germans are particularly unforgiving: Lederhosen wearing, beer guzzling, sausage eating men, Blonde ladies with ample bosoms wearing Dirndls (traditional dress), completely humourless, fastidious, punctual, excessively law abiding….



When in… Hamburg

May 25th, 2010 | By Anna | Category: English

Living in another country for a few months you seem to pick up the habits of the locals, whether it be eating the food, picking up various words and peppering your vocabulary in your own language with them or following the local way of doing things.



Don’t you Just Love Idioms?

May 21st, 2010 | By Anna | Category: Topic

Don’t you just love idioms? They generally make no sense whatsoever, particularly in a foreign language. Anyone learning English, for example, would be particularly stumped by ‘It’s raining Cats and Dogs’ – I mean, what have cats and dogs got to do with rain?! To make your lives easier and to give you a little [...]



I’m Sorry, I don’t Understand

May 19th, 2010 | By Anna | Category: English

Getting to grips with the language barrier…



Will you Marry me?

May 14th, 2010 | By Anna | Category: Topic

As Frank Sinatra once sang, ‘Love and Marriage go together like a Horse and Carriage.’ Well, not so any more it would seem. Marriage apparently is dead; an institution of a bygone Era and romance has died along with it. So many couples divorcing those lucky people that are ‘in love’ don’t see any sense [...]



Es Geht um Die Wurst

May 13th, 2010 | By Anna | Category: English

What would be the one word you associate with Germany? Well, mine is Wurst (sausage), followed a close second by beer.



Top Foreign Languages Taught in Schools

May 7th, 2010 | By Anna | Category: Topic

You would expect English to be the top of the ‘foreign languages taught in schools’ list, wouldn’t you? After all, it is the ‘global language.’ But is that really the case? Well, here at Lexiophiles we have put our thinking caps on and thought about the top languages taught in our native countries. Of course, [...]



License Plates

May 7th, 2010 | By Anna | Category: Topic

License Plates (number plates in British English) are instantly recognizable as being from one country or another. You can always tell you are in a foreign country just by looking at the license plates on cars. Likewise, if you see a car from you own country while on holiday you immediately know you are not [...]



It’s Hip to be Square

May 4th, 2010 | By Anna | Category: English

Why the Brits like to be different…