Huh! My Intro to Stummsprache
After 30 years in Boston as a moderately-successful performing artist (viz. I made more money than I spent), I moved to Germany. I was 54. …
Culture
What is culture? We are fish, culture is water…
What is culture? I can give you a thousand examples of what culture is (it will take a few hours, but I promise you will …
No Verstehen, No Cry (pt1) – Living in a Sound-Bubble
PART I: No Verstehen, No Cry (Living in a Sound-Bubble) or “No German, no problem… language is not in question when escaping a raging inferno” …
No Verstehen, No Cry (pt2) – Gifted at misinterpreting German
PART II: No Verstehen, No Cry (Living in a Sound-Bubble) or “My gift for misinterpreting German (and Germans)” My first years in Germany I found …