von Thom | Mittwoch, Januar 6, 2021 | Get informed
Digital technology and the internet as a whole is not one of Germany’s strong suits. This starts in schools, where the current pandemic only highlights this predicament: when schools first had to close, all of a sudden everybody was forced to use computers to learn....
von Thom | Mittwoch, November 18, 2020 | Get informed
Invisibility is a super power many people have daydreamed about. IGN ranks it as the second best super power – just after the ability to fly – and it is easy to see why this ability is so sought after. It would allow you to find out what people really think about you,...
von Thom | Mittwoch, Oktober 28, 2020 | Get informed
Animals stuck in rooms are apparently a great source for idioms. Remember our post about there being „no room to swing a cat“? Today we will finally address the elephant in the room. Parts of this idiom are fairly straightforward. It is easy to imagine a...
von Thom | Montag, Oktober 26, 2020 | Get informed
This living hand, now warm and capableBy John Keats This living hand, now warm and capableOf earnest grasping, would, if it were coldAnd in the icy silence of the tomb,So haunt thy days and chill thy dreaming nightsThat thou would wish thine own heart dry of bloodSo...
von Thom | Mittwoch, Oktober 14, 2020 | Get informed
When you first started learning English, you may have struggled with some patterns. You may have realised that there are a good number of words that are not pronounced the way you expected, in fact, there are words that are spelled virtually identically, yet...