A one horse race

A one horse race

NOTE: Vacation is American English.

We say HOLIDAY, but I agree with the sentiment in the picture!

NOTE: Business English etc.
can be found below the translation exercises.

Translate the Text into English: Übersetzen:

Andreas, Nadine, Heike, Joachim, Reiner and Simone.

Wir möchten zusammen zahlen danke.

Ich esse gern Fisch aber ich esse kein Fleisch.

Das macht zusammen fünfundzwanzig euro.

Hier

Große

Die Rechung ist billig möchtest du zusammen zahlen?

Ich esse manchmal Schnitzel.

Ich möchte lieber griechisch essen und du?

Was möchten sie Trinken?

Ich möchte einen Kaffee und eine Suppe bestellen.

möchten sie einen Kaffee Trinken?

Möchtest du italienisch oder griechisch essen?

Inlandsflugtickets

voranzukommen – fortschreiten

um Ihren Sitzplatz zu wählen

 

 

 

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Business English Word of the Week:

Geschäftsenglisch Wort der Woche:

A business word/phrase = Revenue expenditure is the expense that is used to run your business on a daily basis. It includes the costs used to ensure the proper functioning of a fixed asset repair costs, maintenance costs, and costs that are incurred for current operations. It differs from the cost used to acquire or buy an asset.

 

Law English Word of the Week:

Gesetz Englisches Wort der Woche:

A law word/phrase = diminished responsibility – verminderte Verantwortung.

 

Vocabulary for Contracts:

Wortschatz für Verträge:

A word/phrase for contracts = An insurance write-off = eine Abschreibung der Versicherung.

Sample Sentence:

“The Lorry was so badly damaged in the accident that it was deemed (gilt als) an insurance write-off.”

 

Vocabulary for Negotiations:

Wortschatz für Verhandlungen:

A word/phrase for negotiations = Averse to – abgeneigt

Sample Sentence:

“We are not averse to this suggestion, but we would rather have things slightly differently.”

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Word of the day: Wort des Tages:

Overcast – cloudy – Bewölkt.

Sample Sentence:

“I say Martha it is shocking weather today, it’s so overcast and cloudy!”

 

Phrase of the day: Satz des Tages:

“The Brill Cream Boys” = RAF (Royal Air Force) pilots in WWII (World War 2).

Sample Sentence:

“Look Reginold, here comes some more of those Brill Cream Boys of the RAF!”

 

Idiom of the day: Redewendung des Tages:

“To sugar the pill” – this idiom means to make an unpleasant thing less difficult to accept or deal with.

Sample Sentence:

“When Sandra broke up with her boyfriend she sugared the pill by saying that he did not offer her any possibility for marriage in the future and as she was over 30 years old she could not wait any longer to have a baby.”

 

British English / American English Vocabulary:

Britisches Englisch / Amerikanisches Englisch Wortschatz:

B.E. to Sneeze (zum Niesen) = “God Bless you!” or just “Bless you!”

A.E. to Sneeze (zum Niesen) = “Gesundheit!”

(NOTE: Americans do not know that this is a German word, let alone know what it means!)

 

Pronunciation tip: Aussprachetipp:

Berth / Birth (Liegeplatz / Geburt) =  are pronounced the same way.

 

False Friends Tip of the Week:

Falsche Freunde Tipp der Woche:

German                    = Maut

Translation              = Toll

False Friend (F.F.)   = Toll

Meaning of F.F        = Great

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Special Grammar tip of the Week:

Spezieller Grammatik-Tipp der Woche:

“Looking at football” = XXX / “Watching football” = Correct. You look at something that is STILL a picture or a photograph. Watching something that is MOVING e.g. a film, a DVD or a documentary etc.

Wit, wit, wit – Education:

Witz, Witz, Witz – Ausbildung:

“The Private Schools of England are to the educated classes what the Union Workhouses are to the very poor. Relief is granted to all who come but it is provided in as unpalatable a form as possible. ”

Quote by Evelyn Waugh.

 

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Slang word of the day:

Slangwort des Tages:

Freebie – Something that is free.

Sample Sentence:

“The bumper sticker, for my car, was a freebie.”

 

Colloquial / Colloquialisms:

Umgangssprache / Umgangssprache:

“What’s up?” = “Hey; what are you doing?”

Sample Sentences:

“Hey Tom, Buddy! What’s up?”

“Not much!”

“Hey Mark, Bro! What’s up?”

“The Sky!”

 

Cockney Rhyming Slang:

Cockney Reimender Slang:

Dicky or Dickie = dickie bird = word = as in “not a dickie“, or even “not a dickie bird“.

Sample Sentence:

“What did you say?”

“I didn’t say a Dickie!” Meaning “I did not say anything.”

 

Quote of the week: Zitat der Woche:

“Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a step the spines of others are often stiffened.”

Billy Graham.

 

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