All tagged English
We investigate reports of a crisis in the Uk’s language learning sector as Germans look to other countries to get their grammar fix. Things get personal with Der Spiegel’s recent report on the rapid increase in obesity among British children and finally, a fish restaurant has haddock enough of complaints about unruly kids and has decided that children have no plaice in their establishment.
We’re finally taking our first steps back into the land of the normal as Simon joins a large group of foodies for a tour of Nürnberg, while Nic ventures out to visit the Augsburg Plärrer. We discuss the anniversary of the lowering of the German voting age in 1970 and take some time to celebrate the life of everyone’s favourite Chancellor, Willy Brandt. We discuss the curious case of the “Peppa Effect” a supposed shifting of accents seen in US children due to overexposure to the cartoon Peppa Pig. We question whether it’s true that “Everyone speaks English” in Germany and finally we look at how native English speakers differ between the UK and the US.
