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People often ask me why I don’t smile in photos. They’re not wrong. Most of my selfies feature firmly sealed lips, with barely a tooth in…

Jul 28, 2026

Despite tremendous leaps in safety, air travel is still fraught with danger. Crashes and hijacking have luckily become few and far between…

Mar 9, 2025

German is no stranger to unique words that describe very particular emotions or concepts. What other languages require full sentences to…

Sep 18, 2024

Picture Berlin in 1963. A divided city, cut in half by a wall erected two years prior by the East German authorities. At the height of the…

Feb 6, 2024

In Arabic, Ard is more than just a word; it’s a tapestry of meanings encompassing Earth, land, soil and one’s homeland. Jump over to the…

Jan 7, 2024

The term Hochdeutsch or High German refers to the standard form of the German language used in official documents, media, and taught in…

May 23, 2023

On a sunny September day in 2013, my co-workers and I took a sailing trip in Zushi, Japan. On top of the beautiful scenery, two memories of…

Dec 28, 2022

Brand is one of the well known Anglo-German false friends. This friendship, however, is not as false as we were led to believe. In old…

Oct 16, 2022

Draw me like one of your French girls Überleben, to survive, was one of the first German words that stuck with me. Thanks to its leben, to…

Sep 4, 2022

What’s better than a cup of iced coffee on a hot summer day? If you walk into a German coffee shop and order an Eiskaffee, you might be…

Aug 28, 2022

I’m not a big fan of language tests. The main goal for learning a language should be to speak, write and understand it. In June 202…

Jul 19, 2021

Five languages before thirty I grew up in Lebanon in the 90s. My mother tongue is Arabic. I started learning French as soon as I entered…

Mar 29, 2021