In Europe—not just Germany—most people write numbers with commas and decimals flipped from the way we use them in many English-speaking countries. To separate hundreds, Germans use spaces or periods instead of commas. 35 000/35.000 35,000 And it’s even called das Komma! 3,3 Million ...
The usefulness of mnemonics for German studies doesn’t stop at vocabulary. These devices can also be used to rememberGerman grammar rules. One of the hardest things for non-Germans to get behind is the gender of nouns. Whether something is male, female or neuter seems to be assigned at ra...
How Many Letters Are in theGreekLanguage? The Modern Greek alphabet has 24 letters, ordering from alpha to omega.The Greek alphabet is utilized to write the Greek language, which is native to Greece, Cyprus, Albania, and some parts of the Eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea. The early ...
I adjusted the way I was sitting and granted their request right away. I had everyone close their eyes and I sang “Katyusha” in Japanese style without letting my voice quiver. The young man said it was Russian style, which impressed upon me Germans’ nature as a people of music. Next...
Afterwards, participants were given a chance to write the first thing that came to their minds when they thought about “cultured meat” in an open-ended question. Respondents were subsequently given the following statements: “I think cultured meat is healthy/environmentally friendly/ tasty/ kind...
The final third writes them down. Source: Statista 9. 53% of US users create unique passwords for each social media account More than half of the US users take time to create a unique password for all their social media accounts to stay protected. Moreover, 47% of them say they reuse...
Germans are early risers, by the way. The standard working day runs from 8 am to 4 pm, with an hour of lunch break allowed. School days also start at 8 am. In formal environments and written language, Germans will speak in terms of the24-hour clock, but colloquially it's also commo...
Germans love to read. Bless them. Sometimes I can’t believe this is real. It took twenty years to find anyone who wanted to publish for my fiction. I never dreamed it would appear in any language other than English. Yet here I am with a whole shelf full of various different editions...
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...
Of the nearly 20,000 trainees who passed through Camp Ritchie, about 60 percent were American-born (including Native Americans), and the rest included refugees classified as "enemy aliens" (Germans and Austrians) and immigrants from Morocco, Azerbaijan, Iceland, India and more. The Composite Sch...