Posts tagged with:language

I was on the toilet, reading one of the few magazines i still buy on a regular basis. And realized why people are buying fewer and fewer newspapers. The web did not kill the press. Press killed itself. It was a combination of lack of professional journalism and news overload. Almost all of Romanian economic […]

Well, in my German class, we are a wild bunch. There’s us two, one French, one Chinese, one Saudi, one newzellanden (I think this is the way it’s spelled), one Swede, one Canadian and one Uzbekistani an. All different. All liking Berlin. The French girl was telling me Berlin is a better city to be […]

How do you tell an Englishman that you do not speak German on the streets of Berlin? In French, of course.

Took me half an hour to rent a car. No sites, no usability, no English, no cars, no car details… How do you want to rent a car to foreigners if you do not have a website in English? And why do you send me the order details in German?

I hate it when websites detect my IP and display the site in German. A language I yet do not master. So I must look for the language changer and change it back to English. It was nice when i was back in Romania, most international sites did not have a Romanian version, so english […]

The fun part about living in a half-immigrant neighborhood in Berlin is that you don’t have to speak German. People understand you and they treat you nice, maybe just because they remember the time they come to this country and didn’t speak the language. And the Germans are nice, they probably got used to it. […]