A new survey by the language learning site Babbel has come to surprising conclusions. “Our data shows that men have a bias towards learning German, Portuguese and Russian, whereas women seem to choose Dutch, French, Italian and Spanish,” Thomas Holl, the company’s co-founder and president,...
while mine starts half an hour later. Finnish teenagers have lots of homework but there is much less when they’re younger, which very similar to Holland. My son Ben spends at least an hour a day on homework too, in his third
Shell Energy North America (SENA), a subsidiary of the oil-soaked giant, scooped up RISEC Holdings, LLC, thereby securing the plant’s two-unit gas-burning operations, which have been happily belching emissions since 2002. The plant, which serves the ISO New England market, will now conveni...
Also worth considering is that, after the Armistice (end of WW 1, in 1918), the then Dutch government narrowly escaped punishment for allowing German army units to cross Limburg, on their way to what were to become the Flemish killing fields – in spite of neutrality solemnly declared, some...
Rather, the possessee is expressed by a pronominal element which surfaces as an invariant affix on the possessive pronoun. This latter strategy is reminiscent of one-insertion in English. We will come back to the relation between the appearance of the invariant affix in Dutch dialects and one-...
It was delicious as is. Also, since I do have an oven-safe nonstick pan, I only used 3 Tablespoons of butter. January 23, 2017 at 9:05 am Reply Rachael This looks awesome. Your childhood German Pancake has become a staple in our household and this will too I am sure. In the ...
‘Fennek’ 4×4 light armoured reconnaissance vehicles to support their operations in Uruzgan province as well as in Kandahar. Other vehicles in theatre are the Patria 6×6 XA-188 wheeled armoured personnel carriers and soft-top Mercedes-Benz 4×4 vehicles from which it is easier to make ...
The essence of a PVE is that citizens advise on a specific decision-making problem of a government in an easy-to-access manner. Citizens are basically put into the shoes of a policy maker. In an online environment, they see: 1) which policy options the government is considering; 2) the...
This is even more relevant when assuming that the most evaluative statements of the press are published in the days after the debates are broadcast (Reinemann and Wilke, 2007). For instance, after the two TV debates in the 2002 German elections, both which took place on a Sunday, the ...
Today there were reports that oil and gas giant Shell is keen to get involved with the UK’s vibrant offshore wind sector. Earlier this month it announced that it bought the German energy storage and management provider sonnen. If news had broken three years ago that Shell had acquired a ...