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Dear email,
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When the Spotlight team began planning the new special issue of the magazine, which focuses on English around the world, someone asked, “Should we list the most important differences in US and UK vocabulary?”. “Oh, everyone knows that Americans say yard and Brits say garden,” replied another team member.
In the end, though, we decided to include as many differences in English vocabulary around the world as we could squeeze in. In fact, if this magazine has a guiding principle, it is to provide maximum usability for our readers. Here in the newsletter, we’ll begin a series of excerpts from that special issue, beginning with those US/UK differences.
If you haven’t yet signed up for our special debate on democracy and the US elections, I’d like to encourage you to do so now. It’s a unique way to debate an important topic and practise your English at the same time. All the details are below.
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Inez Sharp
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Editor-in-chief, Spotlight
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squeeze in: hineinzwängen | guiding principle: Leitlinie | usability: Nutzerfreundlichkeit | excerpt: Auszug | sign up for sth.: sich für etw. registrieren (lassen) | unique: einzigartig
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Im aktuellen Magazin
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English around the world
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Is there such a thing as global English? | Learn about English as it’s spoken in Australia, India, South Africa, Singapore... | Working as a dialect coach
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Word of the Week
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swing state
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Did you know? The outcome of the 2024 US presidential election will likely depend on how the swing states vote. Swing states have a nearly equal number of Democrat and Republican voters, so both parties have an equal chance of winning the state. Due to the electoral college system, the winning party gets all the electoral votes – even if they win by only one vote.
The most important swing states in the 2024 election will be Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Georgia, Michigan, Arizona, Wisconsin and Nevada.
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swing state: US-Bundesstaat mit wechselnder Wählermehrheit | electoral college: Wahlmännergremium
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© Illustration: Georg Lechner
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Anzeige
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»Romane? Lese ich im Original!«
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Reclams Rote Reihe – Fremdsprachentexte für alle, die ihre Sprachkenntnisse auffrischen und vertiefen wollen.
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The Language of Democracy
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It’s time to talk!
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In the weeks before the US election, we are offering you the chance to take part in a unique, interactive debate hosted by ZEIT SPRACHEN. It’s an opportunity to discuss the election, improve your English, and support a culture of respectful, civil discourse. Your English doesn't have to be perfect!
Sign up for our Language of Democracy debate and an algorithm will match you with someone who has different opinions on the election. You and your partner will meet in a private one-on-one conversation to discuss issues facing the US today and share your perspectives.
Not only is this event completely free – hosted together with our experienced colleagues of ZEIT Verlagsgruppe – but we also provide all the essential English phrases you’ll need for the discussion as well as useful background information on the candidates and their policies.
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unique: einzigartig, besonders | host sth.: etw. veranstalten | discourse: Diskurs |
sign up for sth.: sich zu etw. anmelden | match sb. with sb.: jmdn. mit jmdm. zusammenbringen | free: hier: kostenlos
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© Image: Georg Lechner
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Ihr Gutschein fĂĽr Spotlight
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Sie erhalten die erste Ausgabe unseres Abonnements gratis
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Global English
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The US versus the UK
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The Irish writer George Bernard Shaw once said: “England and America are two countries separated by a common language.”
How much do American and British English have really in common? Find out more about the differences with these exercises:
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© Image: Juan Moyano / Stocksy United [M]
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Empowerment
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The fisherwomen of Lake Victoria
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Globally, nearly half of the people who earn their living from fishing are women. Still, most women in the industry have very little say. A group of Ugandan women on the shores of Lake Victoria are helping to change things.
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living: Lebensunterhalt | shore: Ufer
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© Image: Polaris / laif
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Profile
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The Czech sphinx
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In 2023, Royal Mail, Britain’s postal and courier service, reported a loss of £419 million (about €496 million). In recent years, the troubled company has struggled with repeated strikes by its employees, regulatory fines for poor service and, most recently, a huge scandal over unethical behaviour by its management. However, the 49-year-old Czech billionaire Daniel Kretinsky is not deterred. He’s in the process of buying Royal Mail for about £5.3 billion. The British press call him the “quiet sphinx”, for his enigmatic style, but he’s fast becoming one of Europe’s most influential business leaders.
Kretinsky has a large and diverse business portfolio, which includes supermarkets and football clubs. He’s also one of the owners of Czechia’s biggest media group, Czech News Center. Kretinsky made his money in the energy sector. He’s the chairman and majority owner of the energy company Energetický a průmyslový holding (EPH) — which has become one of Europe’s biggest power suppliers. However, his experience with EPH has not been without controversy. In 2023, one of the group-owned companies was fined by the UK regulator, Ofgem, for unfairly increasing customers’ energy bills.
Why is Kretinsky investing in Royal Mail, a postal service that The Guardian described, in 2023, as “on the brink of collapse”? And why does he back fossil fuels, an industry the International Energy Agency believes is at the “beginning of the end”? In 2015, in a rare public speech, Kretinsky said: “We want to make money in industries that are dying, because we think they’ll die much more slowly than the general consensus says.”
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courier service: Kurierdienst | strike: Streik | regulatory fine: durch Aufsichtsbehörden verhängte Geldstrafe | billionaire: Milliardär(in) | deterred: not be ~: sich nicht beirren lassen | enigmatic: rätselhaft; hier: schwer durchschaubar | chairman: Vorsitzender | fine sb.: jmdn. mit einer Geldstrafe belegen | on the brink of: am Rande von | back sth.: etw. unterstützen, hinter etw. stehen | fossil fuel: fossiler Brennstoff
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© Image: Picture Alliance / abaca
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Podcast
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Who do you admire?
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Is there a politician you particularly admire? In our podcast, we talk about inspiring political figures from the past and present. What is so special about former Irish President Mary Robinson, US Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the British post-war Labour Prime Minister, Clement Attlee? Find out in the latest episode of English, please!
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admire: bewundern | post-war: Nachkriegs-
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© Image: Shutterstock.com
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Quiz
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A magical cast
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The Harry Potter films were a parade of acclaimed British thespians. Among them: the wonderful Maggie Smith (here in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince), who died a week ago. What do you know about the British actress and her co-stars?
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cast: (Film-)Besetzung | acclaimed: gefeiert | thespian: gehoben: Schauspieler(in)
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© Image: Alamy Stock Photo
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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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