German Words For the Weekend

 Where can you learn and practise speaking German? 

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You can use German in Germany, Austria and German-speaking parts of Switzerland.  Also Luxembourg, Liechtenstein, and parts of Belgium and Italy.

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German - English easy words

Bald - soon (I remember soon you will be bald)

Bank - bank

der Computer - the computer

endlich - finally

der Laptop - the laptop

einen Moment - one moment

Projekt - project

Medizin - medicine

Nachmittag - afternoon

English - German words 

Now copy the words from the above list.

Useful Websites For Learning |German

Useful English-German websites

duolingo.com

https://wikitravel.org/en/German_phrasebook

translate.google.com

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The latest traveller-friendly information on Singapore trains

We are so lucky to live in the computer age.

Signs on some of the trains now tell you which side to get off.

This train carriage has a sign which shows you the next stop. Rotating signs show pictures of local landmarks such as museums, churches, temples, shopping malls, and community Clubs. For example, Newton MRT station shows the Cairnhill Community Club. 

Why show the Community Club? Many people go to these large buildings for lessons such as learning Mandarin, keep fit classes, family activities, seasonal celebrations. I visit community clubs for meetings of Toastmasters International.

Singapore is a great stopover between Russia or Europe and Australia. 

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See also my posts on Waterloo Street, The National Gallery, and Singapore's big attractions.

Do you want to make a book of your travels?

Problem
You want to make a memory book of your travels. What are your choices?

Answers
1 PHOTO BOXES
Stick them in a shoe box with card dividers by date or country. I visited the head of a photographic society in new Zealand. He had a room the size of a library full of photos of his lifetime's travels. How did he keep track? He filed everything in date order. Everything was numbered by first the date and then consecutive numbers. So 1990's first photo was 1990/1/1/1. The first of January 1991. It was in the box kept in date order.

He kept a second index by subject. So photos ofMount Fuji or whales would be listed by the subject and date. For example, Whales 1990/1/1/2. The second photo taken on Jan 1st 1990 would be a whale. he could get out a dozen photos on a subject, and later replace them, and later still find them again.

Most holiday records will be for yourself and friends and family, a hen party, stag do, or club, about 25 people maximum, meaning printing about 25 copies, rather than selling to the public. You can also do a one-off book for yourself, as insurance against losing your phone or computer or website.

2 PHOTO CALENDARS

3 PHOTO BOOKS
Yesterday evening June 7th 2017, I sat with a friend looking at the prices of producing a book. We found:

On Lulu.com a paperback book, black and white photos inside (colour cover)
for 100 pages black and white photos inside would cost £2.95 to print.

For 115 pages black and white would cost £3.17 to order a printed copy.
A colour book for 115 pages would cost £16.98.

Postage was expensive. Depending on whether you wanted just royal mail, or were wiling to pay extra for tracking. The highest postage rate was for next day delivery plus tracking. Why would you ever be in such a hurry? You should order well in advance. What tends to happen is you decide three weeks before a conference that you need to print a bon You spend a week planning and writing. Then the book arrives. You diced to rewrite it or write a second book. Deadline approaches. To be sure of it arriving in time you have to pay extra for fast postage.

I went back through my gmail folder labelled Lulu to see the emails of offers I had been sent in the previous year. Offers included, 10% off. Then 15% off if you ordered one book. Thirty per cent off if you ordered five. Spend £40, save14% (that doesn't look right?) and get free ground shipping.

Save £40 on five or more books (five copies at 115 pages, for £16.98 is a toal of £85.90 but after the £40 discount it costs £45.90 plus shipping.

The next offer was save £40 on 25 or more books. 25 copies of colour at 115 pages would cost £425, with 40% off that is reduced to £169.80.

We also looked at ISSUU.
ISSUU

My friend wanted to know how I produced a book from Facebook.
BLOG2Print
Then we turned to Blog2 print which prints books from Blogger, Wordpress, Typed and Tumblr.

Not Facebook? Why was next?

BLURB
Blurb was charging Us dollars $14.99 for 20 pages and 20 centre per extra page. Going to a currency converter site we saw that was £11.57 for a twenty page book. Only 20 pages! Not enough. My friend had lots to say, as well as producing illustrations.

My Social Book
MySocialBook.com makes books by extracting your posts from Facebook or Instagram. The cost was £30.60 for 324 pages? with free shopping but covering only April to June of one year with was 2 months, at £10.??

We had been going to look at e-books but we had been going for two hours and stopped to go our separate ways and eat.

The exercise was sufficient to show my friend that if she wanted to produce a book to show to her club, she could display one book on a welcome desk, then tell people, perhaps through a flyer, that they could order the book on line. That reduced her expenditure to under 325 including postage and allowed the public to buy a reasonably priced ebook.

You could do the same kind of comparison exercise again for yourself. If you are taking notes in a lined book, I suggest you make four or five columns, to compare black and white, colour, 100 pages, 115 pages, one copy, 25 copies discount of 10%, and add shipping costs.

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L'Oreal Face Shaping Haircut

Yes, this is what I have always wanted. A face shaping haircut. An advertisement pictures in Singapore.

Many women and men cut their hair shorter in hot countries or when travelling in summer. But long hair frames your face and can be used to shape it.

I had one disaster at a hair salon in Singapore.  I wanted a short bob which is shaped underneath, tapering and thick, so it looks like a cross between a coconut and a pear.  Unfortunately I hadn't realised that it's not just the cut. You need to have thick hair to start with.

An American friend told a group of us at a Toastmasters International club meeting that a decade or two ago he arrived in Singapore with a had of dreadlocks. (I thought bears and long hair were banned years ago?) Each year he cut his hair shorter, because of the heat.

One year I travelled from the UK to visit a boyfriend in the USA. I cut my hair just before I left. New me. Advice columns tell you not to look the same forever. It dates you. Somebody new comes along and strikes afresh

He was disappointed. He said one of the things he had liked about me was my long hair.

I once went to a hairdresser in Raffles Hotel shopping complex where they had a computer. You keyed in a photo of yourself and lots of details. The whole process took about half an hour. The result was a photo of your face in a hairstyle which the computer said best suited your face and what you requested (eg short or long, fringe or none, blonde, black, red, brown, straight or curls, and so on, eye colour, face shape etc.

 You could change your requirements, print off the result to show your family and friends, email the result (with their advertisement on the end) to everybody you knew. Key yourself into their system and get reminded when you were next due for a tint or haircut. Probably also special offers for your birthday, wedding anniversary, and Valentine's Christmas holidays.

You can do something similar with the shape of your spectacle frames to suit the shape of your face, and whether you need large lenses, or tinted glasses.

Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer.

Two wheel cabin cases with owls, only £14.99

A wise own said a two wheel suitcase is available on line with free postage. Never mind the size, feel the weight.

If you don't mind having two wheels (rather than the latest four wheels) you can get a cheaper suitcase. Karabars sell a two wheel pull along case in lots of patterns. My favourite is the owls.

The price is only £14.99 with free delivery. That saves about five pounds, a quarter of the price of the £20 model. But £20 is still a good price, if you must have four wheels.

If you look at the pictures on eBay and blow them up larger, you'll see that the handles on the top and side are flat, not padded. I think they are assuming that most of the time you will be pulling the suitcase, only carrying it when walking up stairs.

If you want a padded handle, either inspect pictures carefully, or look at suitcases in local shops to decide the style and size you want, before buying from a shop or ordering on line.

Note the 20 inch cases are really weeny, for those airlines which limit you to a tiny carry on case. You might consider a bigger case for daily use, or a set of three.

If I wanted to protect a laptop computer for work, I would pick something more padded and heavyweight, less likely to be damaged by pointed objects, or slashed by a thief. You can lock together the zip tabs on many of the 'good value' cases. They are more secure than shopping trolleys.
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Angela Lansbury, travel writer, author, speaker.