It’s going to take more than one post to cover various points about the German detective TV shows, called Krimis, that we’ve been watching, but to kick things off, we’ll start with the granddaddy of all the shows, called Tatort … Continue reading
That talk I gave at the d.a.i. wasn’t the only presentation about photography I gave on Tuesday. The last day of the class I’ve been taking on learning words that help you talk about art in German was Tuesday morning, … Continue reading
I focused on just the color “blue” the other day, but today I have just a few quick expressions to show that both German and English are full of many colorful expressions. Literally.
The German word for the color “blue” is blau. In my German class today we learned a bunch of expressions that involve the color blue.
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Today I want to share a couple of works from a project I’ve been working on. The project is called Poética, a Spanish word for “poetic” or “the art of poetry”. The project name is in Spanish because I’m collaborating … Continue reading
So the other day Chris was clicking around the dial, and we happened on a show called Schlager Party.
I’m taking a class at the moment the is a combination of grammar review, plus an introduction to words and expressions that come in handy when discussing works of art.
Since we’ve been on the subject of language learning this week, let me share a recent thought I’ve had about learning German.
As Kathy’s mentioned in her comment on last Thursday’s blog post, the phrase I used for the post’s title, “High on a Hill”, is found in the lyrics to the song The Lonely Goatherd, from the musical The Sound of … Continue reading
At the risk of your wanting to murder me, that murder mystery on the British trains I promised yesterday just isn’t coming today. Tomorrow for sure, really. You surely know how it goes when a day just doesn’t go as … Continue reading