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Dear email,
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Do you make New Year’s resolutions? Or are you ‟anti-resolution”? After often failing to achieve any of the goals I set myself on 1 January, I’ve decided to make resolutions that require no pain and are only positive. My first has been to do something enjoyable on Sunday afternoons and evenings to avoid the “Sunday scaries” – see below. So far, I’ve taken a long walk followed by a nice meal and it has definitely helped!
My next resolution is to visit more of my favourite places in the UK in 2025. Kent, in the southeast of England, is one of the loveliest counties. I’d like to spend some time viewing local castles at Hever and Dover, and also walk the Crab and Winkle Way at Whitstable, which we describe in our travel story.
Let’s see if I can make my resolutions work. I’ll keep you posted. In the meantime, my colleague Judith Gilbert, editor-in-chief of Business Spotlight, will be back next week with more interesting stories for you from around the English-speaking world.
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Inez Sharp
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Editor-in-chief, Spotlight
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New Year’s resolutions: gute Vorsätze fürs Neue Jahr | posted: keep sb. ~: jmdn. auf dem Laufenden halten | editor-in-chief: Chefredakteur(in)
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Word of the Week
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Sunday scaries
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Did you know... ? How do Sunday evenings make you feel? If you work from Monday to Friday, there’s a good chance that you sometimes get what’s known as the “Sunday scaries”. This means you feel anxious about having to go back to work after the weekend. To stop this from happening, try to do something you really enjoy on Sundays. In other words: live in the moment and don’t focus too much on the week to come!
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© Illustration: Georg Lechner
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Global Business
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The rise of non-alcoholic drinks
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Will you drink alcohol this month? Dry January is becoming increasingly popular, but throughout the rest of the year too, non-alcoholic beverages are growing in popularity. Where has this trend come from?
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beverage: Getränk
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© Image: Stocksy United
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Podcast
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“You know you’re not going to lose 20 pounds in a week”
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But how can you set realistic New Year’s resolutions – especially when it comes to health and fitness? Get tips from health coach Karen Crici in our latest podcast episode of English, please!
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1 pound = 0,45 Kilogramm
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© Illustration: Thao Nhu via canva.com
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Travel
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A day trip from London to Whitstable
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London’s dense transport network offers a variety of amazing day-trip options into the counties that surround it, most of them surprisingly green and pleasant. For example to...
Whitstable, Kent
They’ve been shucking shells since Roman times at seaside Whitstable, Britain’s oyster capital, and every July, the town holds the giant Oyster Festival. But Whitstable’s not only about molluscs. Its quirky shops, bistros and art galleries give off a boho air that has made it a darling among Londoners escaping city life. Stroll the coastal path for views out to the estuary and its wind farms. Walkers and cyclists (bike hire is available) might also consider the lovely 12-kilometre Crab and Winkle Way, which follows an old railway line from Whitstable. It takes you through fields, woods and nature reserves, and past 13th-century churches, to the cobbled streets of historic Canterbury, whose cathedral, founded in the year 597, was long England’s chief pilgrimage shrine. Trains back to London are an option from Canterbury.
Pit stop: Try the Lazy Lobster for – you’ve guessed it – seafood and chilled local vibes.
How to get there: Catch a direct train from London St Pancras International to Whitstable (1 hour, 19 minutes). Alternatively, you can go from London Victoria for a slightly slower, scenic route (1 hour, 25 minutes).
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dense: dicht | shuck: hier: knacken, öffnen | shell: Muschel | oyster: Auster | mollusc: Weichtier | quirky: eigen, schrullig | boho (ifml.): alternativ, unabhängig | air: Atmosphäre | cobbled street: Kopfsteinpflasterstraße | pilgrimage shrine: Pilgerstätte, geheiligte Stätte | vibes (ifml.): Atmosphäre | scenic: landschaftlich reizvoll
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© Illustration: Shutterstock.com
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Skill Up!
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The language of rebranding
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New year, new style: is it time for a new logo, a new design or even a new name? Try our four exercises to practise the language of rebranding!
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© Image: P. Byrnes via cartoonstock.com
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Odd Jobs
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Forensic artist: remaking faces
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Hew Morrison is a freelance forensic artist and forensic facial-identification specialist, based in Inverness, Scotland.
“I have always had a fascination with the true-crime genre in literature and documentaries. So, after studying fine art in Edinburgh, I studied forensic art and facial imaging at the University of Dundee. Forensic facial reconstruction is used for the identification of unknown deceased individuals, missing people and criminals on the run. It’s also used to recreate facial images of people from the past for museums. My clients range from archaeology companies to police forces.
“My career really took off when I worked on an early Bronze Age woman from the north of Scotland. The facial reconstruction I produced, based on DNA, carbon dating and isotope information, created a lot of media interest. My work is often featured in newspapers and television documentaries.
“For some cases, I’m asked to update pictures of younger people to create an image of what they would look like today. I recently completed a project like this involving an age-progressed image of a drug trafficker who has been on the run for 30 years. My work helps the police to catch criminals and gives the families of missing people a sense of hope that they’ll one day be reunited.”
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facial identification: Gesichtserkennung | study fine art: an der Kunstakademie studieren | facial imaging: Gesichtsdarstellung(en) | deceased: verstorben | on the run: auf der Flucht | Bronze Age: Bronzezeitalter | carbon dating: Kohlenstoffdatierung | isotope information: Isotopenanordnung | featured: be ~: gezeigt/dokumentiert werden | age-progressed: mit einberechnetem Alterungsprozess | drug trafficker: Drogenhändler(in) | reunited: be ~: wiedervereint sein
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© Image: private
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Im aktuellen Magazin
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Best day trips from London
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7 day trips from London | 5 of New York City’s most iconic buildings | Useful euphemisms | A day in the life of a King Henry VIII impersonator
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Quiz
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It’s time!
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Time for a quiz: what do you know about time zones, history and idioms related to time? Test yourself by clicking the link below!
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© Image: Shutterstock.com
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Verlagsangebot
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Gemischter Satz
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Unser Lesertipp für alle Österreich-Freunde! Im kostenlosen ZEIT Österreich-Newsletter „Gemischter Satz“ finden Sie Aktuelles, Bemerkenswertes oder Beiläufiges über die Kultur, die Politik, den Alltag und die Absurditäten des kleinen Landes da im Süden mit seinen Bergen und Weinhängen.
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© Image: Joss Woodhead / Unsplash.com
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Culture
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The art of junk food
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Food doesn’t just feed Noah Verrier – it also inspires him. The artist lives and works in Florida and is famous online for his still-life oil paintings of junk food. One of them got more than 12 million views and then sold for $4,999. Another painting even appeared in the hit film Mean Girls (2024). Verrier told People magazine that he had social media to thank for his success because it “lets you be yourself”, which is “freaking amazing”.
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still life: Stillleben | freaking (US ifml.): wahnsinnig, verdammt
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© Image: courtesy of Noah Verrier
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Mitarbeit: Dennis Draber, Judith Gilbert, Susanne Krause, Nadia Lawrence, Mae McCreary, Richard Mote, Rachel Preece, Inez Sharp
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