culture. education. literary studies.
Dear friends and followers of the Grammaticus blog, I am very happy to present the fourth title in my series of Grammaticus Free Library ebooks, designed primarily for English language learners (levels C1/C2), and all lovers of good literature. This one contains a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne, 'The Minister's Black Veil'. First published in …
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I first read this book a few years ago, in the days leading up to Halloween. I remember searching online for books to get me in the holiday mood, and among all the shiny, glossy titles (and there are so many!), there was this one that looked quite different โ a small, unassuming volume, with …
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Veles counts among the most prominent deities of the Slavic pantheon. Heโs one of the so-called horned gods of Europe; like them, he is typically depicted as a mature man, bearded, usually in the company of forest animals.
In this blog post Iโll present several English-language podcast series on an often discussed but much-misunderstood topic: autism. (As a bonus, Iโve also included a few podcasts in German.) To say that autism is often misunderstood is a major understatement: diagnostic criteria constantly shift and evolve, as does the terminology around ASD (the autism spectrum …
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