german – Bookmarks

We Have More in Common Than We Know – Los Angeles Review of Books

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/we-have-more-in-common-than-we-know/

How a German Writer Made Peace with the Imprecision of English | Literary Hub

http://lithub.com/how-a-german-writer-made-peace-with-the-imprecision-of-english/

This means that Germans read and speak differently; we scan to the end of the sentence, then we go back and parse it. Understanding this, in my view, is crucial to understanding how English speakers and German speakers think differently. English speakers make it up as they go along; German speakers have to know where they’re going.