Cathedral Notre-Dame de Paris, a Visit before April 2019 Fire
A visit at the Notre Dame Cathedral of Paris before the fire of April 2019. Sharing images, snippets of culture and facts, thoughts and poetry (haiku).
Patricia Furstenberg, Author of Dreamland and Other Books
Travel Through Books
A visit at the Notre Dame Cathedral of Paris before the fire of April 2019. Sharing images, snippets of culture and facts, thoughts and poetry (haiku).
Your final stop if in search of original Afrikaans idioms translated into English, and sure to make you smile.
19 German Compound Words with Surprising Translations: Mammutwörter and the Longest German, English and Welsh Words – prepare yourself to be amazed.
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.
A most beloved wartime classic song, Begin the Beguine was composed by Cole Porter in 1935, turned into a swing by Artie Shaw and band and made famous by Fred Astaire and Eleanor Powell. Their legendary tap dance in the movie Broadway Melody surely caught on.