John Barré – Hamburg, Germany

My name is John.

Currently working as a Team Lead in Content Management at jobleads.com

Online Marketeer

The world wide web is my oyster.

Translation beyond words.

Appearance matters.

Recent blog posts

A Simplified Introduction to Irish Names

Ó Flaithbheartaigh, Ní Raghallaigh, Ní Tuama, Ó hAonghusa,… No idea how to read, let alone utter, those words? Quite likely like most people and yet these words come from a European language. Gaelige is a speech that differs a lot from its fellow European languages. Official language, with English, of the Republic of Ireland, it […]
July 10, 2019
Amélie Nothomb, Graphomaniac Writer

Note: This article was originally published in 2011 on Lexiophiles.com. Since then, Amélie Nothomb wrote 7 more novels and the latest to date is Les prénoms épicènes. Amélie Nothomb, 43, is one of the most popular writers of her generation and composes in French. She published no less than 19 novels, which is a mere […]
June 26, 2019
Average is worse than you think: “Avarie” linguistic tale

Lately, I have been reading a book about the influence of the Arabic language on modern French: “Nos ancêtres les Arabes” by Jean Pruvost. It’s a wonderful book if you are into linguistics and share a passion for words and how they evolved into what they are now over the centuries. Among the many words […]
November 30, 2018
The Almost Nearly Perfect People by Michael Booth | review

I am a lucky person. Not only have I visited Scandinavian countries, I had the opportunity to visit them several times, on various occasions and to meet and tie friendships with locals. I saw the ever-breath-taking geysers in Iceland, I cycled through the streets of Copenhagen, and I even experienced drinking beer on a bank […]
August 19, 2018

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