Monthly Archives: August 2008

mobile blogging, part 3

It’s almost one year ago that I published three (1, 2, 3) articles on mobile blogging – and nothing has really changed since then.

Back in 2007, both the Nokia N95 and the Apple iPhone were released – two completely …

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on the CEFR & YouTube generation

What you see here is the first page of a brand new textbook for 12-year-old German kids who want to learn Spanish (as a foreign language).
It starts with a listening comprehension unit and provides relatively short exercises throughout the …

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Après l’amour, le repentir.

Is this already mainstream cinema?

2 Days in Paris – a wonderful movie on sex, food and relationships.? And this although it beautifully covers the cliché of both the French & American’s inability to communicate in any other language …

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Black Moses

“I ain’t go anywhere in the United States of America and see another black man and give him a power shake…and there’s unity there. There’s a beauty there that I can communicate with this brother…”

Right on.

(via on-point.be)

I’d seen this …

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Blackberries

Talking about (urban) alottment gardens the other day, one of the advantages of living in downtown Frankfurt am Main is that there’s this special park in the neighbourhood which used to be a nursery a looooong time ago. After …

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