Learning German (badly)

2019-10-18 • 220 sayfa • EN

Yazan Tim Luscombe

With the possibly looming that he might lose easy access to Germany and his German partner, British theatre director Tim Luscombe is forced to get German citizenship. And to do that, he needs to learn German. Overly skilled at English, he struggles. Witty, charming and enlightening, Tim Luscombe's comic diary is an ode to a potential (E)Union, a lament for a lost citizenship and a celebration of a new life in Berlin's cosmopolitan bubble as the writer grapples with a referendum, adapts Jane Austen's Emma and learns 7 different ways to say 'the'.