When talking about the “ten” numbers in English, we use the word “teen” at the end. But in German, it’s clear as day. Couldn’t be simpler. Eight and ten make eighteen. Germans make this easy by using the number and tacking the word for “ten” (zehn) to the end. See, n...
they seek out fax machines and phones as eagerly as Germans bag the best sun-loungers. Yet working time in Europe and Japan continues to fall. In Germany's engineering
A cryptographer would write the letter "B" as "12". The letter O is "34". To encipher the phrase "How Stuff Works," the cryptographer would write "233452 4344452121 5234422543." Because he replaces each letter with two numbers, it's difficult for someone unfamiliar with the code to det...
Here’s our recommended way to learn how to count in German, including resources and tricks for remembering these common numbers. Common German time words Germans use a wide range of phrases for telling and reading time. From phrases for “a quarter after” to phrases for telling someone exact...
Based on those examples, it's tempting to jump to the conclusion that those who feel hatred toward others are mentally ill. But that doesn't explain the vast numbers of ordinary Germans and Bosnian Serbs who morphed from friendly neighbors to eager murderers of their countrymen. That's why...
Members of the French Resistance movement arrested Germans in hiding throughout Paris after the liberation of the city by Allied forces in 1944. Hulton-Deutsch Collection/Corbis/Getty Images And how important was the French Resistance? Did it turn the tide of the war? Could the Allies have ...
The Germans gave sauerkraut its popular name, but the Germans did not invent sauerkraut. STEP 6: FERMENT. Ferment for 2 to 4 Weeks In Step 6: FERMENT, the friendly bacteria work for you while you watch and wait. They know how to make sauerkraut FOR YOU! 🙂 Now sit back and relax ...
Hitler might have continued the pattern of right-wing Germans helping the Kuomintang. By 1937 it was too late: Hitler had made a firm alliance with Japan and Japan was committed to expansion. Like the modern New Right, Chiang knew how to work the system, but had no idea of how the ...
not four—those who respond aesthetically to these works are often basing their judgments in part on the language itself. Many non-Germans think of German as a harsh language, with all of its consonant clusters and guttural ch’s. Especially in the case of opera, it took time for a full...
The numbers of Cantonese, Japanese, Austro-Hungarian (Czechs, Poles and Germans) and Ottoman-origin settlers in areas opened for farmers by the previous Spanish administration were heavily racialised zones of exclusion when the United States Army first entered in 1899 (Chanco Citation2017). In ...