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Der Spiegel ist sehr gut

Wie komme ich am besten zum Bahnhof, bitte?

I took GCSE German during high school and I came out with a B grade. Not bad. Whenever I go to Germany I pick it up pretty good. In fact, I am confident enough to order a basic meal in German.

Ich mochte ein(e) cola. Can’t remember the ‘sex’ of a coke. Und ein sandwich mit jambon. (Ham Sandwich). Bitte. Danke. Ja. Get IN!

I try and keep up with the likes of Der Spiegel, one of Germany’s biggest newspapers. Most of it is, inevitably, ‘greek’ to me, but I do snap into the German language memories quickly.

So a tip of the hat to Der Spiegel’s Christian Stöcker, who included my 2am post on the Mumbai terror alerts in his piece today thus:

Auf der Branchen-Web-Seite “Mobile Industry Review” macht sich ein Autor Gedanken über die massive Veränderung, die Mobiltelefone in solchen Situationen verursacht haben. Ein Vor-Ort-Bericht eines Augenzeugen, schreibt er, “wäre vor 15 Jahren noch eine Story für die Titelseite gewesen”, heute sei er fast selbstverständlich. Aber: “Die Herausforderung, vor der die ‘echten’ Nachrichtenseiten stehen, ist, dass sie jetzt Zugriff auf Tausende von Konversationen und Erfahrungsberichte haben. Echt. Live. Jetzt. Welche davon sind tatsächlich korrekt? (…) Ist das echt, oder ist es irgendein Kerl aus Baltimore, der sich ein bisschen Social-Media-Spaß gönnt, und versucht, bei CNN zu landen?”

Nice one Christian!

7 COMMENTS

  1. Jambon….if you happened to be in France at the time, otherwise I think you want some Schinken.. ah the joys of languages…

  2. Jambon….if you happened to be in France at the time, otherwise I think you want some Schinken.. ah the joys of languages…

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