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Alex Vogel

@alex_vogel

🇺🇸 🇩🇪 American living the German dream | Lover of German beer, hiking, photography, traveling, cycling | Making an attempt to learn German | IG: ahvogel

Joined March 2009
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More socially and linguistically helpful graffiti please 👍🏼 😃 #berlin

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When you’re from the US but married a Bavarian 👇

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If you happen to be a German speaker you MUST do this test. You are being asked to name 24 objects and based on the dialect you choose you get displayed a map of where you are from. Spot on for me! Source: buff.ly/3YYqfw6



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A Faulkner A Hemingway sentence sentence

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If you’ve never been to Bardentreffen in Nuremberg, check it out next summer! It’s one of the best annual events Nuremberg offers.

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Mythical Beasts of Germany by Neil Parkinson

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The Dutch invest €500M—€30 per capita—per year in cycling. What is the return? Over 1,000 km and 60 hours of cycling per capita per year; preventing 6,500 deaths and €19B in healthcare. Don’t ask whether you can afford to invest in cycling. Ask whether you can afford not to.

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Always love a trip to Vienna, regardless of how short it may have been. I could spend one minute there and enjoy it.

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Some nice views on the Fünf-Seidla-Steig.

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Went home on the Ubahn in Nürnberg tonight and spoke to some people in German as it was a bit crowded. They said my accent was nice, and as I’m American I said “Thanks, I guess?” One said, “Yeah Viennese is so nice.” Never have I felt so complimented and confident in my German.


Excited to start this one. It’s been sitting on my bookshelf for ages.

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Umberto Eco, who owned 50,000 books, had this to say about home libraries: "It is foolish to think that you have to read all the books you buy, as it is foolish to criticize those who buy more books than they will ever be able to read. It would be like saying that you should use…

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Thinking about this Ethan Hawke interview

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new york office: hey man have you seen my email it's kind of urgent i need this back until tomorrow morning european office at 4pm:

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I got got.

Don’t touch the cast iron, I’ll wash it

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A sign I never thought I’d see in Germany, especially Bavaria.

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No “Life of Brian” today on Karfreitag, but a hike in Franconia followed by a Schäufele and beer is always good.

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What country am I living in? (This is rhetorical.)

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A lot of grey days in Germany lately, but Nuremberg always provides a bit of color.

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After reading so many posts complaining about the overcast skies and cold in Germany, I think I may be in the minority. Not too bothered.


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