Tag Archives: language

Englisch Unterricht

Wed, Jun 10, 2009 – 15:59

There’s some awesome inspiration for my Cthulhu project on Motionographer! This morning I went to the English class the square dance caller teaches to answer questions from his 6th grade students. I was kind of worried about them asking questions that would either be too complicated to answer quickly or they wouldn’t ask any questions, [...]

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German Grammar

Wed, May 13, 2009 – 18:18

I found out why Janine is so much easier to understand than 80% of the Germans I’ve talked to — there is a huge range of dialects, full of contractions and mispronounced letters, and every village has a different one evidently. Janine makes a big effort to speak in high German for me, and it [...]

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