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Dear email,
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Don’t you just love those quiet days between Christmas and New Year, when you can finally sit down and read a good book? We certainly do. We’re both big readers, and the coming year will see us comparing notes on our favourite Jane Austen novels. 2025 marks the 250th anniversary of her birth, so expect to see lots about Austen over the next 12 months. If you want to get a heads-up, why not try our quiz about her?
Both of us enjoy quizzes of every sort, so we’ll be testing our knowledge on the interesting mix of topics you’ll find below: weird aspects of Britain, capital cities around the world and pub culture. We hope you have fun answering the questions over these twixmas days.
We wish you all the best for the New Year and are looking forward to helping you with your language learning resolutions in 2025!
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Inez Sharp and Judith Gilbert
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Editors-in-chief of Spotlight and Business Spotlight
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heads-up: hier: Vorgeschmack | twixmas: Tage zwischen den Jahren | resolution: hier: Vorsatz
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Word of the Week
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sleepmaxxer
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Did you know...? “Sleepmaxxers” use sleep trackers, mouth tape, magnesium supplements – and anything else that will help them get the best night’s sleep possible. However, experts say that this can lead to orthosomnia, which makes people so obsessed with getting a perfect night‘s sleep that they’re too stressed to sleep at all.
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mouth tape: Mundklebeband | supplement: hier: Nahrungsergänzungsmittel |
orthosomnia: Orthosomnie, zwanghafte Beschäftigung mit dem perfekten Schlaf | obsessed: besessen, zwanghaft
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© Illustration: Georg Lechner
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Quiz
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Capitals
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How many capital cities have you visited? Did you know that Ngerulmud, on the Pacific island of Palau, is the world’s smallest capital? It has a population of just over 200 people. See what other nuggets you can glean in our quiz on capital cities.
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nugget: Bröckchen | glean: auflesen
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© Image: Shuttterstock.com
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How much do you know about Chicago?
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Here’s the first bit of trivia: Chicago is the biggest city of the Midwestern state of Illinois – but not its capital. Now it’s your turn: test your knowledge of the “Windy City” with our quiz!
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trivia: hier: Trivialwissen
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© Image: Bryan Rodriguez / Unsplash.com
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Weird Britain
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Will you be having guests over on New Year's Day? In Scotland, tradition dictates that the first person to set foot inside your home after midnight on New Year's Eve will set the tone for the year to come. Read about more quirky traditions from Great Britain in our fun quiz!
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quirky: seltsam
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© Image: Shuttterstock.com
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Quiz
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Pubs
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Pub culture is very important in the UK. Lots of people head to the pub on Christmas Eve before Father Christmas arrives. But do you know where the word “pub” comes from? Find the answer, and much more, in our quiz!
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head to: sich aufmachen zu | Christmas Eve: Heiligabend | Father Christmas (UK): der Weihnachtsmann
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© Image: Samuel Svec / Unsplash.com
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Quiz
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Austen’s world
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Jane Austen is one of the great British novelists, and her legacy has endured for 200 years. Do you know which popular TV show her work has inspired? Have you read any of her masterpieces? Test your knowledge in our fun quiz!
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endure: Bestand haben
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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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