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To Queue or Not to Queue

Feb 22nd, 2010 | By Anna | Category: English

My first experience of a German taxi rank filled me with despair. For a country famous for being orderly I could not comprehend the chaos that ensued and the people pushing past me to hail the next cab. ‘This is the queue!’ I stifled in my best pigeon German, but…

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British Regional Dialects

Jan 28th, 2010 | By Nathan | Category: English

One of the hardest things I found when starting University in England was the difference in regional dialects of my new-found friends and even more so, their seemingly bizarre use of slang…

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