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The motion picture

The motion picture

English Writing für Deutschsprachler – Part 4

Forget the cliché about "painting a picture in the reader's mind." A movie is the right metaphor. Vivid writing stimulates a sequence of scenes in the reader's mind—a "motion picture," as they used to say. This movie feeling comes through using lots of character subjects and action verbs. 

A RAM reduction

A RAM reduction

English Writing für Deutschsprachler – Part 1

To write well in English, German speakers should start by switching off about half of their brain’s RAM. It’s as if their language brings them into adulthood with 8 gigs, while we English speakers have only 4. That’s the only way to explain how German speakers read sentences like this every day without having their brain short-circuit:

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