Perfect German with words almost identical to the English

 German - English

campen - to camp

das Ende - the end

Freitag - Friday (Fr i a in both words and the final letters g and y both have tails)

Hilfe - help (consonants H and l in both languages)

Mann - man

Park - park (noun, as shown by the capital initial letter, not the verb)

perfekt - perfect

Poster - poster (the nouns in German have capital initial letters)

Problem - problem (das Problem, the problem)

Schere - scissors (looks like shears, both German Schere and English scissors contain the initial letter s and the letters c and r) 

schneiden - to cut (Years ago my family living in Edgware in north west London used to know a lady called Mrs Schneider. It was a surname for Germans including Ashkenazi Jews who were tailors or occasionally wood cutters)

Wald - forest (I used to know a family called Waldman)

Useful Websites For German Words and German Family Names

To learn German for free allowing ads, or paid for without ads

duolingo.com

To find the origin of names

familysearch.org

en.geneanet.org

Ask Gemini

  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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Flag of Liechtenstein.

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The Cinema Museum Sells Posters. What is a Quad poster?

I looked at the shop page of the Cinema Museum and they were selling quad posters. What is a quad?

I was at first confused by the term quad poster. I searched for the word quad. A goodle and wikipedia search produced nothing useful. I wondered if it was a brand name. 

When I used the two word search for quad poster, all became clear. Quad refers to the size. 

See my previous post about the exciting Cinema Museum.

The Wikipedia entry about thte Cinema Museum has lots of pictures and a video.

The website has 39 pages of posters for sale. For example, Isadora, Halloween, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. Lots for fans of the cinema, or just to decorate in season, or all seasons, in your hall, living room or bedroom, or as a housewarming gift, for someone who has eveything, except this poster.

The Cinema museum in London, near Elephant and Castle London underground tube train station.

Useful Websites

http://www.cinemamuseum.org.uk/shop/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinema_Museum,_London

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Film_Museum

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theatre_Museum

https://www.sign-holders.co.uk/snap-frames/movie-poster-frames.html?

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Why should you wear a mask during covid-19?

Masks are a must - don't you agree? Not everybody does. An anti-mask writer on Facebook wrote that masks could no more catch a minuscule virus than a tennis net.

Naturally the pro-mask brigade responded.

Firstly, the virus may be tiny, but it is carried from place to place in water or mist when you breathe out.

Secondly, as the advertisements in Singapore say, my mask protects you, your mask protects me.

How? A great diagram shows the effect of two people wearing masks, one person wearing a mask, and nobody wearing a mask.



Finally, the facts speak for themselves. Look at the figures for a country such as Singapore. The government early on provided at last a free disposable paper mask for every household (so one person can go out in a mask).

More recently they provided a new improved fabric washable and reusable mask for every citizen. This has reduced the death rate significantly.

I signed up for their app and I am sent the latest figures on my phone. 27 deaths. Not in a day. Altogether.



Here is a free mask supplied by the government in Singapore. It is re-usable and washable.

In Singapore signs by the lifts (elevators) tell you to wear a mask. 

Now i set off for the swimming pool. But first I have to stand behind the yellow line on the floor. When beckoned forward, I go to have my temperature taken. I write down my temperature in the log book with my phone number in case I need to be contacted.

Useful Websites on Covid-19

https://travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.com/2020/07/masks-to-be-compulsory-in-shops-in-uk.html

Go.gov.sg/moh

(gov for government, sg for singapore, and moh stands for ministry of health)

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-07-06/aerosol-transmission-of-covid-19/12425852

https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2020/06/417906/still-confused-about-masks-heres-science-behind-how-face-masks-prevent

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31142-9/fulltext#%20

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/jun/15/facebook-posts/claim-n95-masks-cant-stop-covid-19-particles-due-s/

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/06/21/880832213/yes-wearing-masks-helps-heres-why

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About the author, Angela Lansbury

I and my family have lived in the UK, Spain, the USA and Singapore. I am a travel writer and photographer and teacher of English A level and English as a foreign language.Please come to a Toastmasters International Club where the English clubs have a language evaluator or grammarian.  We also have French, German, Mandarin Chinese, Tamil and other language clubs based in Singapore and many more online around the world which because of Covid-19 are now meeting online.

I am Immediate Past President and current PR of Braddell Heights Advanced, meeting the first Wednesday of the month, Usually on Zoom, sometimes on Learncool. But the other Wednesdays have workshops on app learncool.sg

Our other regular meeting date is the third Saturday of the month in the afternoon 2 pm to 5 pm.

The president  is Faith.

For meetings learncool it is quicker to type and easier to remember: 

 tinyurl.com/BHACOOL

Useful Websites On Speaking and Languages

https://www.toastmasters.org/find-a-club
translate.google.com
duolingo.com

https://www.duolingo.com/enroll/vi/en/Learn-Vietnamese

https://www.facebook.com/groups/polygotcommunity/

Other Useful Posts By Angela Lansbury Author

https://travelwithangelalansbury.blogs

https://travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.com/2019/04/how-to-say-thank-you-in-several.html
https://travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.com/2019/05/introducing-yourself-in-english-spanish.html
https://travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.com/2020/01/second-set-of-portuguese-words.html 

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Interestesting and useful posts on travel and tips on learning languages and recognizing accents

Create funny mock-plane seats at home and watch your/others' videos for Armchair Travel

The idea of pretending your washing machine is a cruise ship window is so ridiculous it is funny. An inflatable pool with bar stool in your back garden (or back yard as the Americans say) is better than nothing. I shall start with serious guides, then end with the amusing mock destinations.

I am very content travelling the internet. I could spend months searching through information and enjoying discoveries, planning trips which might take place later this year, next year or never.

What can you do to recreate the pleasures of travel:
Practical Pictures
1 Watch videos (made by drones)
2 Project seasides or forests onto your living room or bedroom or kitchen or bathroom or outdoor walls
3 Print your favourite photo large and frame it
4 Use your favourite holiday or business trip picture as your laptop's welcome screen
5 Use your favourite holiday or business trip picture prjected behind you as your backdrop
 when videoconferencing using Manycam
6 Compile a serious guide to your city or your dream destination using route planning guides and photos from wiki. Start with your heroes and heroines such as Anne Frank, Helen Keller, Jesus, American Presidents, Elvis, Freddie Mercury and city destinations, mountains, beaches or treks.

Amusements
Create a jokey mock up of plane or cruise travel to amuse your friends, using
1 Hotel pool
Deckchairs in the garden by an inflatable pool.

2 Hotel Pool bar
Bar stools and cocktails by kitchen work surface. Stick poster of distant hotel on wall.

3 To recreate a cruise ship window or airplane window.
Washing machine circular front windows. Stick picture of outside scene on outside of window or inside.

4 To create a plane interior:
A bank of chairs alongside or behind each other with masks or saved airline socks or paper sick back and airline magazines. Wife (male or female) wearing tight skirt with small hat and scarf or baseball hat from tour company carries meal on a tray.

5 To create airport lounge
Airlne magazine covers stuck on magazines to recreate an airport lounge. Add wheeled bags and briefcases. For seatbelts, and remove clip straps from shoulder bags.

5 A mock plane toilet
Remove all your other clutter leaving only your saved free zip up flight bags and disposable toothrushes.
Printed signs above your batrhoom (rest room) or toilet door.
Signs can say;
Occupied.  .
Return to seat.
Stand outside looking glum holidng a magazine and looking at your watch.

6 Mock Destination Video
Take your favourite clips and create a guide to your home city.
If all else fails, just photograph your garden or the view from your window and do a mock travel guide to nature of city life.

7 Holograms
Hologram of yourself or wildlife.

Entertaining and Educational Websites
From Wiki

• Comparison of bicycle route planning websites
• Google Transit
• Rome2rio

• Rutebok for Norge
• Transport Direct Portal

• Traveline
• Walkit.com

VIRTUAL TRAVEL USING SCENERY

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20200330-covid-19-virtual-travel-during-coronavirus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ManyCam
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtualtourist
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritage_Key
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_learning_environment
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-dimensional_virtual_tourism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holography

AMUSING JOKES ABOUT RECREATING TRAVEL
https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2020/04/15/people-miss-flying-so-much-theyre-re-creating-airplane-experience-home/
https://www.insider.com/tiktok-recreating-flight-experience-inside-laundry-room-2020-4

About the Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker. (Not related to the actress.) See books and profiles on Lulu.com and  Amazon and videos on YouTube.

Photo opportunity - your head in a monster's mouth

A photo or poster of any animal or fish or bird or statue with an open mouth is an opportunity for a fun photo. This one was at Harbourfront, Singapore, on the railway station near the place where you etner and exit through the barrier. 

The posters for the safari park and zoo and films seen to attract a lot of people, Japanese tourists, teenage friends taking turns to be photographed individually, families photographing single children, pairs of siblings and small groups of children. 

You don't have to visit a zoo or safari park. Just see the poster!

Author, Angela Lansbury, travel writer and phtographer, atuhor and speaker.

Grape varieties, grape colours, wine colours and wine posters

Poster showing wine colours.

Problem
How do I get to see grapes and grape varieties and remember wine colours?

A friend of mine went on a tour of vineyard tasting grapes. You can taste a grape or two, with permission, as you do a general vineyard tour, but often the grapes you taste are not eating grapes but sour grapes and not yet ripe.

You can buy posters of wine colours or get them from wine organisations and see them at wine tasting events at wine and food fairs organised in England, France, Spain, Italy, Singapore, all over the world.

Tips
http://www.thewinesociety.com/grape-varieties-list
http://www.allposters.co.uk/-st/Wine-Posters

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