At this semester’s Academic Open Day (Dies Academicus) on 17 May we had the opportunity to present the LaMa blog and school cooperation project to the interested public. MA student Hanna Bruns, secondary school teacher Timo Brede and BAEL staff members Stefanie Pohle and Pawel Sickinger gave a talk titled:...
…or: what the ability to quickly name pictures has got to do with speaking two languages. When learning a foreign language at school, we are often told that we should go to the country where that language is spoken. Many German pupils are sent to Great Britain, because, as their...
How is English used in Namibia? What do Namibians say to complain or apologize? How do they make an offer or engage in small talk? Answers to these questions are best found by going to Namibia to collect language data, of course. Two months ago, in March 2017, I went...
