Patricia Furstenberg, Writer of Historical Fiction, Children's Books
Travel via Stories
I still remember attending my first lecture on symbolism, it was in art, not a war book like Silent Heroes, but it told a story. I fell in love. My own studies were as far from literature and art as the moon is from the man who occupies it.
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What is the connection between German idioms, story tales and sausages? Weather it is Michael Ende’s “The Never Ending Story” (“Die Unendliche Geschichte”), Erich Kästner’s “Emil and the Detectives” (“Emil Und Die Detektive”) or Grimm’s “Hansel and Gretel”, German storytelling reveals a rich culture and a millennial tradition.
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Your final stop if in search of original Afrikaans idioms translated into English, and sure to make you smile.
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19 German Compound Words with Surprising Translations: Mammutwörter and the Longest German, English and Welsh Words – prepare yourself to be amazed.
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When learning a new language, some of the issues we encounter are translating those crafty closed compound words – combinations of two or more words that function as a single unit and mean something different than the individual words they are built from.
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