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Dear email,
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Everyone says German is a difficult language to learn. I had French for many years in school. In college, however, I gave up on French and started learning German, which I didn’t find nearly as difficult. English, after all, is a Germanic language. Certainly the accent was easier to master than French, and there aren’t so many apostrophes! It had a certain logic to it. So I learned German well enough to speak it (basically) in four semesters.
However, even after decades in Germany, there’s still one thing I find difficult: knowing the gender of the nouns. OK: -ung is feminine, -chen is neuter, -ling is masculine, etc. There are a few rules which are easy to memorize. But the rest you just have to know, and that’s difficult! Luckily for our readers, English articles aren’t quite that difficult. But there are some rules, and we tell you what they are below, amongst many other items we have for you.
Next week, my co-host Inez Sharp will have some more entertaining stories for you from around the English-speaking world.
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Judith Gilbert
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Editor-in-chief, Business Spotlight
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give up on sth.: etw. aufgeben | master sth.: etw. erlernen, beherrschen | memorize sth.: sich etw. merken, einprägen | co-host: Co-Moderator(in)
Note: Judith's editorial is written in US English.
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Word of the Week
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biohacking
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Did you know...? Have you heard of Bryan Johnson? He’s a 47-year-old multimillionaire who spends $2 million a year on staying youthful. This is a form of biohacking: an extreme version of self-improvement. Examples include intermittent fasting, cold exposure and optimizing gut health for improved immunity.
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youthful: jugendlich | intermittent fasting: Intervallfasten | cold exposure: hier: Eisbaden | gut health: Darmgesundheit
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© Illustration: Georg Lechner
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Ihr Gutschein für Business Spotlight
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Anzeige
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Your Free TOEFL iBT Sample Test Awaits!
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Want to boost your TOEFL iBT score? Try our free sample test and get a real feel for the exam! Practice under test-like conditions, identify your strengths, and improve where needed. The best way to succeed is to practice!
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Grammar
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The definite article
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Do you know who this cat is? Find out its name – and test your knowledge of the definite article in our grammar exercises!
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© Image: Shutterstock.com
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Quiz
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Quiz about “the”
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1. What is The The?
A. A famous pub in Piccadilly Circus
B. A British rock band
C. A French tea
2. If you were to write about a member of the British royal family, which is the proper way to write the definite article?
A. The Queen, The King, The Prince, The Princess
B. the Queen, the King, the Prince, the Princess
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proper: angemessen, korrekt
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© Illustration: Georg Lechner
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Travel
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Seattle: the Emerald City
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Washington state’s most populous city, Seattle is famous for being home to huge, multinational corporations, including Starbucks, Amazon, Boeing and Microsoft. It’s not just a business centre, though. Be inspired by beautiful train rides, fantastic seafood and buzzing neighbourhoods in our travel article!
As a special gift, our newsletter subscribers can read the online version of the article for free – but only for a week!
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populous: bevölkerungsreich | corporation: Unternehmen | buzzing: hier: pulsierend | subscriber: Abonnent(in)
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© Image: Alamy Stock Photo
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Career Coach
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How to solve problems in your team
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Have you heard of the Clear-the-Air method before? It’s based on non-violent communication, and career coach Frank Peters uses it to help teams talk through issues and reduce tension. Practise your vocabulary on the topic of conflict in our exercises!
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tension: Spannung
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© Image: iStock.com
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Profile
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Conductor in the cockpit
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For decades, Daniel Harding has been one of the world’s top orchestra conductors. That would probably be enough for most people, but Harding also has another career – as an airline pilot.
Harding has always been a high achiever. Born in Oxford, in 1975, he began playing the trumpet when he was eight. For fun, he tried conducting, practising at home. His conducting career began aged 17, after his teacher wrote to Sir Simon Rattle, describing Harding’s talent. Working with Rattle at the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (CBSO), Harding was a fast learner, making his professional debut with the orchestra at 19 and, later, winning the Royal Philharmonic Society’s Best Debut award. From there, he became the first music director of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, worked as the principal conductor of the Trondheim Symphony, in Norway, and was the music director of the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. He’s also been a guest conductor for many other well-known orchestras around the world.
In 2019, he took a break from conducting to become an airline pilot for Air France, although his plans were delayed by the pandemic. Today, he balances flying and conducting. “I don’t think it’s realistic to say, just because you love something, you should do it 24 hours a day, every single day,” he told The New York Times.
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conductor: Dirigent(in) | high achiever: aufstiegsorientierter Mensch | trumpet: Trompete | conduct (an orchestra): (ein Orchester) leiten | debut: Debüt | music director: Chefdirigent(in) | chamber orchestra: Kammerorchester | principal conductor: Chefdirigent(in) | take a break: eine Pause einlegen
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© Image: Benjamin Malapris/Redux/laif
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Im aktuellen Magazin
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The world’s best
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Who leads in industry and why? | Overtourism: its effect on economies | Satellites: what are they doing to the planet?
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Quiz
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Innovations
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Did you know that it’s been 100 years since the Scottish inventor John Logie Baird first successfully transmitted greyscale television images? Take our fun quiz to test your knowledge of other innovations!
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greyscale: Graustufe
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© Image: Ramón Salinero / Unsplash.com
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From the ZEIT SPRACHEN App
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It’s Pet Day!
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Meow! Today is National Pet Day in the United States. Join us as we dive into the world of cats – and learn important words and phrases about these proud felines.
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Meow!: Miau! | feline: Katze
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© Image: Pia Spieler
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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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