Good morning GLNers! Hope you enjoyed the Holiday Weekend and are ready for a four-day work week. Since a new GLN semester is upon us, I thought I would ask our dear readers to share (by clicking on the link below) your lovely stories about...
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Category Archives: Tuesday Posts
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Translation Tuesday–Rosswurst!
Happy Tuesday, GLNers, and hang on to your stomachs! Today’s translation story might be a bit much for you if you get grossed out easily, so don’t say I didn’t warn you!
This particular story takes place in Germany. The setting: Freimarkt, an Oktoberfest-like festival that...
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Translation Tuesday–The Other English!
Happy Tuesday, GLNers! Hoping for a sunny day today... A close friend, who resides in London, was recently teaching me the British way of speaking English. This might surprise a non-native English speaker: American English vocabulary often differs from British English. Here is a...
Translation Tuesday–nekojita!
Have you you ever heard a phrase in a foreign language and thought you understood it, but then realized that...you didn’t understand it at all? You understood the literal translations of the words, but had no idea why they were being used or what the...
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Teacher and Student Tuesday!
Translation Tuesday–A Little Hawaiian!
Hello my lovely GLNers, I hope the week is treating you well so far! Today I’ve got an interesting translation situation for you, all the way from Hawaii and thanks to Bill, one of our students!
It turns out that in Hawaiian the word “limu” can...
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