TheCelticKraut

This year has been a very slow year workwise. If I've not been twiddling my thumbs, I've been crocheting hats and scarves and sewing...

Last month, I took myself off to the cinema to see a German film: Extrawurst with a local German actor, Hape (short for Hans-Peter) Kerkelin...

It's that time of the year again: the main celebraitons of the Carnival season are getting ever closer. Now, not all parts of Germany ce...

I'm still reeling [ taumeln, schwanken ] from the message that was passed on to me from a translation client via the agency. The client ...

Yes, sitting on the coach heading towards Bavaria on 28 December last year, those words really did pass through my mind. I'd forgotten t...

Nearly two years ago - March 2024 to be precise - newspapers informed us, the general public, that song lyrics were getting simpler and more...

Way back when, before I ventured to make translation my main source of income, I used to teach English as a foreign language, predominantly ...