Carbonara

If breakfast burritos exist, we should also be allowed to have a breakfast pasta! 

Judo

None of this "ninya" business.

Good time tonight

Either a good night or a bad night - who knows.

Broken

It's hard to maintain a language when you live abroad, even if it's your mother tongue. My deteriorating Japanese is definitely one of the biggest complexes I have.

Punch Line

Also, the French word for "punch line" doesn't seem to be "pointe"...

Na?

Just an homage to one of my favorite German words phrases.

Shoehorn

Kraftrad

I haven't had much time for comics lately because all of my time and energy is being used up for my BA thesis project. Here's my favorite drawing from this past weekend!

Husband

Superlatives

G's vocabulary consists of "not bad" and "not good". The other day he described something as being "not uncute," which I think was meant to be a compliment...

Horst

Poor Horst!

Morgenbüffel

Some mornings, I'm just a grumpy, grouchy Morgenbüffel. Moo.

*Morgenmuffel: someone who's grouchy in the morning
**Büffel: buffalo

Where Pigs Fly and Horses Puke

Hello!

Just a little update about an illustration project I did at the end of last semester (I blogged about it really briefly in February). The course was called "Wildes Berlin" (Wild Berlin) and we had to illustrate animals in some relation to Berlin. I'm kind of obsessed with languages, so I decided to work with animal-related sayings/idioms in Japanese, English, and German. I selected sayings with similar meanings and visually combined them -- which is kind of what goes on in my linguistically confused head! You can check out the entire book here!

Weakness

Okay, my resolution for March is to 1) post more frequently and 2) stop drawing about butts and boobs.

Nur die Wurst hat zwei

The Process of Learning German - by Tze-Ting Chao!

I've had a ridiculously hectic month, so Tze -- the Dutch-Chinese author (living in Frankfurt) of the awesome Meh Blog -- is helping me out with a guest comic! Thanks Tze! She has also recently taken the brave step of leaving her 9-to-5 job to pursue comics, and you can support her on her Patreon website!

The hecticness is over so I'll resume comics tomorrow.

Bastards

The German word for the typographical term widow (as in widows and orphans) is Hurenkind (bastard, or literally, child of a whore). Oh, German. 

Unh

Sorry for the lack of updates -- I was in the boonies for a workshop with the uni last week and hadn't checked the internets for a whole week...and now I'm in Bremen with G's parents for the holidays. Have a wonderful Christmas everyone!

Boah Ey

"Boah (ey)!" is the "Whoa!" or "Wow!" equivalent in German. I've caught myself saying it to non-German speakers many times this year ... I guess that might have been slightly weird.

A Little Nervous

I'm crossing my fingers and drucking my Daumen and picking him up with a bottle of Sekt!