Today, I want to present three expressions that can lead to serious life-and-death-type misunderstandings. Two of them are false friends (English expressions that are used in German with a very different meaning), and one is a very dangerous literal translation. Body bag Whereas a body bag in German is a bag to transport your personal
In my experience, many German native speakers (including myself) tend to mispronounce the noun worm, referring to a long thin creature with no bones or legs, that lives in soil. The mistake usually made is to pronounce worm as [wɔː(r)m], just like the word warm, listen here. However, the correct pronunciation of worm is [wɜː(r)m],
As a reader of an English blog, you have most likely heard of the TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) test. It is a standardized test of English language skills, which is used in many areas (in particular for university admissions). Interestingly, I clearly remember that in Austria, people used to pronounce the