Pfingsten

May 21, 2008 By Leave a Comment

Pfingsten is the weekend known in English as Whitsun or Pentecost. The Sunday and Monday are bank holidays in the whole of Germany. It falls 50 days after Easter.

Pfingsten celebrates the moment when the Holy Ghost descended to Jesus’ disciples, allowing them to be understood by everyone that they talked to. To the listeners they appeared to be speaking in their native language.

The weekend is often used by families to have a longer weekend away. Some parts of Germany have school holidays that start on this weekend.

To hear a simple explanation and a short discussion in German, listen to the podcast:

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Increase in visitors during the winter months

May 20, 2008 By Leave a Comment

Visitors to Lanzarote surged during the winter months of January and February – up by 11% compared to last year with a 16.7% increase in British visitors.

All this despite the current financial climate caused by the so-called “credit crunch” – the reduction in the availability of loans or their increased cost caused by the subprime mortgage financial crisis – meaning less money to go around and thus causing worries amongst the property market that this may have meant a downturn in visitors or even buyers.

Thankfully, this is not the case – as the leading island property portal, Lanzarote Guidebook, reported.  With these two months normally being the quietest of the year, the hoteliers association (ASOLAN) were pleased to see record occupancy of some accommodation types.

And if it’s good for the tourists, then it’s going to be good for the investors…

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Parken oder Parkieren?

May 20, 2008 By 1 Comment

Hier ist ein weiteres Beispiel für eine Übersetzung ins Deutsche die anscheinend schiefgegeangen ist.

Aber ist sie es wirklich?

Was uns das Schild eigentlich höflich sagt, ist, dass man vor diesem Eingang nicht parken soll.

Das Wort “parkieren” hört sich für gebürtige Deutsche lustig an, da man dies umgangssprachlich und auch sonst nicht benutzt. Es könnte sein, dass angenommen wird es sei wie bei spazieren zu konjungieren, dass es auch parkieren heißt.

Aber tatsächlich ist es so, dass es im Schweizer-Deutsch wirklich parkieren heißt.  Möglicherweise machen in diesem Ferienwohnungskomplex viele Schweizer Urlaub?

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