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...language. "They just throw it out there at the student," says Mark Kaiser, associate director of the Berkeley Language Center. "They fail to present language as a representation of that language's culture." Author and entrepreneur Tim Ferriss, a regular language acquisition blogger who has become fluent in Spanish, German, Chinese and Japanese, is quick to credit Rosetta Stone for engaging more people in language learning. However, Ferriss argues that by shunning grammar and exercises leveraging one's native language, Rosetta Stone slows the learning process. "There's a real benefit to having the right dose of grammatical awareness...
...easily hooked from the start.The finest moments of this majestic album are its effervescent pop songs. Perhaps the best song on “Dark Days/Light Years” is “Inaugural Trams”, which opens with Franz Ferdinand’s Nick McCarthy counting in German. It is a sweetly silly love song as well as, yes, a tribute to trams: “Let us celebrate this monument of progress / We have reduced emissions by 75%.” Frontman Gruff Rhys sings, “I will design the town in the image...
...were arrested in a raid on Sept. 4, 2007, when German police commandos stormed their rented house in the village of Medebach-Oberschledorn, in the central region of Sauerland. At the time of the arrests, police say, the suspects were almost ready to strike and had turned their house into a bomb factory. The authorities found dozens of detonators and barrels of hydrogen peroxide, a chemical used in hair bleach which, when mixed with other materials, can be used to make explosives...
...been under surveillance by U.S. and German intelligence agents for months. The authorities claim that at the end of 2006, two of the suspects had been spying on the U.S. military base in Hanau, 25 kilometers (15 miles) east of Frankfurt. Intelligence officials had been monitoring the group's cellphone conversations and email traffic with IJU leaders abroad. It was in February 2007 that preparations for the bombings began in earnest, prosecutors say. According to the authorities, the suspects collected 12 barrels of hydrogen peroxide, but in July 2007, the German authorities secretly swapped the 35% solution of hydrogen peroxide...
...German authorities have been dealing with the threat of militant Islamic terrorism since 9/11, when it emerged that three of the hijackers, including the presumed ringleader Mohamed Atta, had been living in the German city of Hamburg. In July 2006, the authorities foiled a plot to plant suitcase bombs on commuter trains in Cologne's main station. The explosives failed to detonate and no one was injured. A Lebanese man, Youssef Mohammed el-Hajdib, was convicted in Dec. 2008 of attempted murder and sentenced to life in prison for the failed attack. A year earlier, another Lebanese man, Jihad Hamad...