One person’s trash…
This week is the last school week before Christmas break, and my class decided to do "Garbage Secret Santa" ("Schrottwichteln" in German), which seems to be all the rage this…
101 things a translator needs to know – #72
Beware of dictionariesDictionaries are great tools but rarely solve translation problems completely. That’s hardly surprising, given that ideas can be expressed in many different ways depending on the context. If…
My students must really like me…
...otherwise they would not have given me a present today, on the last day of school. Really, I should have been the one to give them something, since they really…
One happy translator…
... that's what I am, after one of my students (?!) gifted me with an old Langenscheidt dictionary. And with old, I mean OLD. The copyright says 1929 - that's…