Mittwoch, 28. Oktober 2009

That's what I'll take home with me (Listening/ Businessbook p. 10)

I have heard an interview in the english lesson and it talks about language assistents.

Flora, who is from Ireland visited Austria.
There are some sentences, which are mentioned in her interview.


1. She said, that she met many people in Austria.

2. Flora was shocked, that people in Austria are allowed to take smoking almost everywhere they want to.

3. She mentioned, that she learned a lot of her own Irish culture.

4. Flora added, that now she know a lot about the Austrian way of life.

5. She said, that she learned a lot about clichés in Austria.

Donnerstag, 15. Oktober 2009

39 Hitler relatives in Lower Austria


I have just read an article in autriantimes. at.
It talks about Hitler relatives and I thought you might be interested, because Hitler was born in Austria.

It is also mentioned that the relatives, who have tracked down are living in Lower Austria.
Journalists called “Hitler-Hunters”, tracked down 39 Hitler relatives.



Basically what it says is that Hitler’s other living relatives live in Lower Austria’s Waldviertel region.
They have taken other names, but they aren’t very different from “Hitler”. For example they are called “Hidler”, “Hietler” or “Hüttler”.
Most of them don’t know about the relationship to Hitler.


I took this article, because I think that it is quite interesting to know what has happened with the Hitler-generation.

Link to the original article: http://www.austriantimes.at/news/General_News/2009-09-14/16338/Hitler_relatives_tracked_down




Vokabularies:

tracked down (ausfindig machen): Tracked down means to find out about something.
relatives (Verwante): Relatives are members of a family.