Judo

None of this "ninya" business.

Eclair

Sometimes, I practice my rusty French in the rain.

Nutella Probability

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.

Linguistic Superpower

You crazy linguists writing about languages you don't speak like it's no big deal!

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!

Horst

Poor Horst!

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!

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.

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.

Ein Griff ins Klo

I only learn the most important German phrases from G.

Gross Idioms

I have to get back into listening to lectures in German...

Holding Chickens

Nowadays G and I just say "Hähnchen halten?" when we want to hold hands.

Finnininen

How am I supposed to speak this language when even the Germans get it wrong?!

Jumbled

Broken

This is the longest I've been away from Germany since I moved to Berlin more than three years ago. It also could have been due to the fact that I was caught by surprise, but it's pretty scary how quickly you lose grasp of a language you thought you knew pretty well. When I go back to Berlin, this is probably going to happen to my Japanese (though to a lesser extent) . . . I think I'll need to make some Japanese friends! 

Helsinki Day 2: City Centre

Another scribbly update from Helsinki!