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‘We always get our sin too’ by Maarten H. Rijkens is a hilarious book with quotes from Dutch ministers and ‘hotemetotes’ who make linguistic mistakes.
They translate Dutch words directly into English or make Dutch words sound English. It becomes even funnier when Dutch phrases and expressions are translated literally when their meaning is meant figuratively. [...]
‘We always get our sin too’ by Maarten H. Rijkens is a hilarious book with quotes from Dutch ministers and ‘hotemetotes’ who make linguistic mistakes.
They translate Dutch words directly into English or make Dutch words sound English. It becomes even funnier when Dutch phrases and expressions are translated literally when their meaning is meant figuratively. A perfect book for another English lecture!
It’s a bit of a challenge, lecturing English to first year Dutch Journalism students. Most walk in thinking it will be 2 hours of listening to boring present-tense and past-tense rules, maybe like it used to be in High School. Well, I have set myself a challenge.
It’s a bit of a challenge, lecturing English to first year Dutch Journalism students. Most walk in thinking it will be 2 hours of listening to boring present-tense and past-tense rules, maybe like it used to be in High School. Well, I have set myself a challenge.
Before you realise it’s Friday and a whole week of publishing about fact checking is over. The first year journalism students in Utrecht were taught to work in a Content Management System, to phone journalists and sources to confront them with the facts from the articles, upload their post and multimedia onto the blog and [...]
Before you realise it’s Friday and a whole week of publishing about fact checking is over. The first year journalism students in Utrecht were taught to work in a Content Management System, to phone journalists and sources to confront them with the facts from the articles, upload their post and multimedia onto the blog and interview guest speakers.
This upcoming week the first-year students of the School for Journalism in Utrecht, The Netherlands, will experience their first Orientation Week. The students have the whole week to get familiar with a certain journalistic medium, in this case new media.
This upcoming week the first-year students of the School for Journalism in Utrecht, The Netherlands, will experience their first Orientation Week. The students have the whole week to get familiar with a certain journalistic medium, in this case new media.