German - easy words and confusing words for English Speakers

  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 Confusing words

eine Pause (machen) - (take) a break (not a shorter pause)

Easy German - English words

Job - job

komisch - (funny/comical) strange

das klingt - it sounds (makes a clinking sound)

das kollegin - colleague

recht - right

reparieren - to repair / fix

schuh - shoe

schwer - difficult (so difficult that it makes me swear) 

stressig - stressful

suchen - search for/look for

tippen - to type

dr Urlaub - vacation (urge to lay up on a beach)

I am learning German on Duolingo. The main languages, such as English, French and German, have had an upgrade. There are now exercises, in speaking and listening.

Useful English-German websites

duolingo.com

https://wikitravel.org/en/German_phrasebook

translate.google.com

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Set 8 Handy Albanian words - west, in the west, right

English - Albanium

west - perëndim

in the west - ne perëndim

right - drejtë (rather like the French droit)

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left

straight on

mountain

sandwich

sea

shop

stop

street

supermarket

toilet

water

.........................

PAYMENT

bill

receipt

cash

change

service included

tax

tip 

Duolingo does not have Albanian.

Useful Websites

translate Google

Wikipedia

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

Wikitravel phrasebook

https://wikitravel.org/en/Albanian_phrasebook

Albanian in Memrise

https://app.memrise.com/courses/english/albanian/

Memrise is helping me make fast progress. I don't have to type the letter e with two dots above. You just select it from letter with a click.

More Albanian - needs on arrival and getting about

 

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I made lists of words I thought I would need to use or recognize when travelling, common words and useful words.

Words which are the same or nearly the same are hotel and farmaci.

Common words

and - dhe

danger - rreziku

the -të

or - ose

you - ju

warning -paralajmërim 

dhe - and të - the ju - you

ose - or paralajmërim - warning

rreziku- danger

You may need 

Linking words English - Albanian

at/beside - në/përkrah

from - nga

to - te

right/left - djathtas /majtas

yes/no po/jo

please/thank you - ju lutem/faleminderit

hello/goodbye - përshëndetje / mirupafshim

boy/girl - djale vajze

man/women - burrë/grua

Albanian - English (alphabetically) 

burrë/grua - man/woman

djale vajze - boy/girl

djathtas majtas - right/left

ju lutem/faleminderit - please/thank you

në/përkrah - at/beside
nga - from

përshëndetje / mirupafshim - hello/goodbye
po/jo - yes/no
te - to

Countries

Albania/Albanian

England/English

America/American

London/Londoner

Germany/German

Shqipëri/shqiptar
Angli/Anglisht
Amerikë/Amerikane
Londër/Londër
Gjermani/gjerman

Albanian - English

ajo - she

ju - you ( similar to the French tu, two letters, but more like d'you, to remember the j, I think you juvenile)

bar/snack bar/coffee shop/bistro/cheap restaurant/fine restaurant/local style restaurant/national food

From Maps

bridge - urë

cafe - kafene

car park - parkim makinash

city - qytet

drinking water

drug store - farmaci

entrance - hyrje

exit - dalje

free - falas

hotel - hotel

urë - BRIDGE
kafene- CAFE
parkim makinash - CAR PARK
qytet - CITY
ujë i pijshëm - DRINKING WATER
farmaci - pharmacy (UK) drug store (USA)
hyrje - entrance
dalje - exit
falas - free
hotel - hotel

Useful websites

wikivoyage

Ten American and British phrases

American - British English
at this moment in time - now
burglarized - burgled
got - have
gotten - had
Jello - jelly
jelly - jam
make a left - turn left
a quarter after - a quarter past
momentarily - shortly, soon, in a moment
raised - brought up

Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.

Hotels and Restaurants are Asking for TripAdvisor Reviews

Problem
You want to give honest reviews. But you don't want to upset a restaurant where you might eat again.

Answer
Damn with faint praise. That way the other customers know what to avoid. The establishment knows what or how to improve.

Everywhere is asking for feedback nowadays. That's good. We used to be shy about complaining in England.

The Americans are quicker to complain or sue. Although the American businesses promote the idea that the customer is king and the customer is always right.

The menu at a restaurant in Cambodia requested a TripAdvisor revue and gave the links of all their pages on Facebook, Twitter and elsewhere. The hotel asked us to give them a write-up on TripAdvisor.

Back in London, England, we had just sat down in B & K salt beef bar in Hatch End, and had not even ordered, when a message appeared on a mobile phone asking us to give a TripAdvisor review.

How did anybody know we were there? A friend of mine guessed, 'It's like the ap which knows where you are to send you details of nearby restaurants and offers. It pinpoints your location. If you have allowed it on your phone, to tell aps where you are, it knows if you are in a street or a shop or restaurants or department store to send you information.

Restaurant, hotel, and other business cards are increasingly listing all their media pages. I see it as a good thing. everybody wants to know my opinion.

Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer.