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

Breizh: an Endangered Regional Language?

Breton is a Celtic language spoken in Brittany, in the west of France. In 2007, only 206,000 people claimed to speak it. Since the 80s, there are no more monolingual Breton speakers. Is Breton in phase of becoming a dead language? It is and it is not. True, the UNESCO acknowledged Breton as a “seriously […]
November 12, 2019
5 mad ways to practise your language skills

So, you’ve just arrived in a new country, eager to put all that theoretical knowledge you have striven to learn into practice. Then you realise it is not that easy, being in a new place can be rather lonely and when you have sorted out all the paperwork and other duties you cannot avoid, you […]
October 25, 2019
Comics vs. Bandes Dessinées
French article
Sans doute n’avez-vous jamais entendu le nom de Chris Hemsworth jusqu’à il y a quelques jours. Quand bien même vous ignoriez qui il est, vous connaissez à coup sûr son visage: il tient le rôle principal du dieu mythologique scandinave Thor dans le film du même nom. Le marché des super-héros est en forme. Difficile […]
October 11, 2019
Viennoiseries: Danish, French, or Austrian?

Upon finishing their school-days, French pupils are usually treated to a tasty viennoiserie before facing their homework. Thank God I did not escape that tradition and I must confess, it did make my day a lot better – I was almost willing to do my math exercises. French children have the 4 PM viennoiserie, we […]
September 05, 2019

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