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This is a new category on this blog. I will post some french music here because there are still some really good songwriters in France. And he is one of them. His name is Bénabar and the song À la Campagne is from his new album Infréquentable. Lyrics:

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One of my basic German lessons contains an exercise about reading a german menu in a restaurant. Last week I did this lesson once again with a new client of mine and it made me think about names of german dishes. What is a Jägerschnitzel? First, a Jäger is a hunter. So now you might think “Ah, I got it. It’s a Schnitzel made out of wild boar or deer or something you hunt in the german forest!”. No, infact[...]