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Tag Archives: language
The life of a professional X (for many values of X)
Once upon a time, I was a professional X, where X is a number of different things, depending upon which part of my life we’re talking about and where the jobs were. And now that Mr. T is almost nine … Continue reading
Attention Nathan Swearingen and..
anyone else who was in Dr. Hanney’s French I class with me: I’m totally staying at the Jacques Brel youth hostel next month. I cannot stop laughing every time I see the reservation in my calendar, even 18 years after … Continue reading
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Tagged French, language, nostalgia, things I find funny and you don't
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What is this “real life” of which you speak?
One of the things about having a baby is that all of this literature for new parents begins to arrive at your house, and you have no idea which of it you solicited and which of it you didn’t. Furthermore, … Continue reading
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Tagged baby, being a grownup, education, education junkie, good things, language, Life, NaNoWriMo, novels, parenthood, research, sleep-impaired drivel, teaching, Torsten, travel
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Week 38: All kinds of progress
I didn’t start out intending this to be an official pregnancy post – it’s really more about other stuff – but since part of the progress I refer to has to do with Small Monster’s progress, I’ll put it in … Continue reading
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Tagged German, health, language, Life, NaNoWriMo, novels, pregnancy, writing
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Muahaha… total awesomeness!
Today is a day of total awesomeness: The professor for the advanced German seminar I really wanted to take is going to let me in and says there’s no problem. Yayyy! Something else I have really wanted to do but … Continue reading
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Tagged baby, education, education junkie, German, good things, language, Life, pregnancy, religion
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Better than “a time sex thing”…
Today’s Language Log cracked me up – there have been a few very good posts of late which display some of the excellent mistranslations found in translations from Chinese to English (the phrase in this post’s title is referenced in … Continue reading
Week 25: Wir sprechen hier Deutsch…
24 weeks: Teil drei. As I mentioned in my last post, my husband and I decided that our language at home would be German. Now, it’s not like this was an arbitrary decision – my husband is German after all, … Continue reading
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Tagged baby, bilingualism, family, German, language, Life, pregnancy, scary stuff
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Week 25: Shopping for our little imaginary friend
24 weeks: part deux. (N.B.: I begin this post totally aware that this is a prime example of my verbal incontinence and how I can talk forever without really having much of a point at all. Bite me.) My husband … Continue reading
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Tagged baby, books, German, language, Life, music, pregnancy, shopping
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Disturbing things about German, #62
So I was reading the introduction to this baby book in German. Part of the reason for this is that while my German is passable (depending on the phase of the moon), I know absolutely no baby vocabulary, which could … Continue reading
