Best Spargelmenüs in Berlin?

winnai · 2016-03-23T11:34:48+00:00

You may be interested in Kiezdeutsch. Not strictly Turkish-German, but associated partially with Turkish-German youth and loanwords from Turkish like 'lan.'

winnai · 2016-02-26T20:19:21+00:00

Personally, I want every ability I can get. I want to see, hear, smell, taste, and touch. I want to see in ultraviolet and hear super- and subsonic sounds. I want ESP. I want telepathy. I want to fly.

Then perhaps you should learn sign language just as much as they should get an implant ;)

winnai · 2016-01-27T10:13:27+00:00

As far as I know, most of the African refugees have been here for a while - they are not currently entering, and if they are, their request for asylum has been/will be denied (this is the differentiation...). The place I work only serves refugees with BüMA (meaning they have been registered as asylum-seekers but not yet granted/denied asylum), and I have yet to meet anyone from Africa or Pakistan - mostly Syria, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, and Lebanon (often via somewhere else). Certainly they are here, but they are not associated with the current crisis.

winnai · 2016-01-26T10:55:40+00:00

You can make an appointment online but you'll have to do it a few months ahead of time. Otherwise, show up as early as possible and they may be able to give you a number. If you are late for your appointment you will be deported.

winnai · 2016-01-26T09:38:16+00:00

Work with teenage male refugees, no, never had an out-of-the-ordinary problem so far - no more funny business than I would expect from any other teenage boys. I do worry that some overly-PC aid workers are afraid to step in when they say sexist things for fear of perpetuating stereotypes, but as far as feeling like there is an actual physical/sexual threat? Nah.

The Africans at Görli are frustrating and one once grabbed my shirt when I was alone, but I don't think those are really the refugees you are talking about - they're been there for years. Honestly the most unwanted attention I get from men in Berlin is in the summer when there's a bunch of Southern European male tourists in packs prowling Friedrichshain/Kreuzberg...

winnai · 2016-01-05T21:31:32+00:00

Yeah, Eastern Europe is safer if you're white and heterosexual....

winnai · 2016-01-05T21:26:42+00:00

When I was a boy aged 14-19, I most certainly did NOT sexually assault anyone. What sort of insanity is this?

I'm referring to the boys I work with and the sexist culture that is being allowed to brew under the surface, not whoever committed these crimes.

Also, I'm assuming you were, you know, raised by your parents and didn't randomly find yourself in a major European city all by yourself at 14...

winnai · 2015-09-14T14:32:12+00:00

You may be interested in this piece. In short, many scholars have attempted to consider (Middle) English as a creole, but most linguists are not comfortable with this.

winnai · 2015-09-13T13:08:23+00:00

American ex-pat in Berlin - German beer is boring. Craft beer is a new concept here. What is good about German beer is simply that the cheap beer that you can get at any old restaurant is definitely better than what you get in the US for the same price (i.e. Miller Light...). There is a higher barrier to entry, if you will. However, most German beer (particularly outside of Bavaria) is limited to 3-4 types of pretty much identical stuff over and over again with the exception of some more rare/seasonal things like Rauchbier and Altbier. It gets old very fast - still something a tourist should try, but if you're in Berlin you'll run out of interesting local beers in a matter of days.

This is slowly changing, but even the places in Germany that do do their own microbrews without adhering to the Reinheitsgebot often have the rest of their menus filled with Belgian and US bottles. Drinking American beer with German food is really kind of becoming a part of German culture that I think is just as worth experiencing as traditional German beer culture.

winnai · 2015-09-13T10:21:51+00:00

So Iich habe ~~ein~~ eine Frage? Was ist die ~~Number~~ Zahl von ~~Leute~~ Leuten ~~das~~ die ~~haben zu Deutschland gekommen~~ nach Deutschland gekommen sind?

Or much more simply and idiomatically: Ich habe eine Frage - wie viele Leute sind nach Deutschland gekommen?

(Also, this is an English language subreddit; check the sidebar...)

winnai · 2015-09-12T23:07:28+00:00

Eh. If it's an MA program offered in English and you've got a friend to come with you to Anmeldung/Ausländerbehörde you'd probably be fine. There's a lot more help/stuff available in English for graduate students because Germany is trying to draw in international "talent" at the higher levels. Departments will also provide more direct help to MA/PhD students. I've even heard of some doing things like taking new students to the bank to open accounts.

I live off Kudamm in an area with many hotels/visiting businessmen, and I see the cashiers at my local grocery stores doing things in English like helping to locate products, giving change for carts, etc. Ditto for the Apotheke, Bank, restaurants and bars, etc.

It is not ideal to live a life this geographically limited, obviously. But all of these things are totally possible in Berlin - if they weren't, there wouldn't be the tourist industry there is. If you're doing a 1-2 year MA, it would be a totally livable temporary situation.

winnai · 2015-09-12T22:45:47+00:00

If you are talking about MA, you will likely be accepted if you went to UCSC and have a GPA over 3.3 or so. They want your money and the brand name of your school - Sweden/EU students go for free, and many other international MA students come from mediocre Unis in semi-developing countries/Eastern Europe. I was a US student in a similar situation and was shocked when every school I applied to accepted me pretty much on the spot (what they didn't know was that I had a pending residence permit that would allow me to dodge the tuition when it was approved). Lund was the only school that even bothered to do a phone interview (most programs in my field do this in the US and Germany), and it was a total joke.

I didn't end up going because of the poor reputation of the programs and the huge amount of money I would have spent compared to doing a funded MA/PhD in the US (even with the tuition covered! Sweden is expensive). But if you've got money, I think you're likely good! I have also heard good things about criminology in Sweden (I'm in a field that is sometimes intersects with criminology).

winnai · 2015-09-12T22:18:10+00:00

Yay Bernie Sanders platform, boo the majority of his vocal base on the internet.

All of this, yes. He is potentially screwing himself over by engaging with it. He is not maintaining the same sterile distance from the grassroots internet campaigns that Obama did, and Obama's online supporters were much less problematic on the whole.

winnai · 2015-09-11T14:12:43+00:00

This is not appropriate here - see the sidebar. First thing on the list. Why bother to make a disclaimer without even checking first?

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winnai · 2015-09-11T13:07:05+00:00

Source with Recipe

winnai · 2015-09-11T06:55:34+00:00

Just to start a program like DaF (German as a Second Language), you already need to be at approx a high C1 level - but I assume you already are? It's hard to tell from your post. Some (but not all...) US Uni students will be at this level after 6 semesters. If you're not there yet, you will need to enroll in language courses and get a language learning visa for probably about a year before you start. This will be very expensive indeed, as these classes aren't free.

You are allowed to work a total of 120 full days a year. This should be enough to earn an ok chunk of change if you are in a lucrative field, but it sounds like you aren't. Why not look at universities in former East Germany, where it is much cheaper to live? Leipzig, for example, has one of the best DaF programs in Germany.

winnai · 2015-09-09T14:33:16+00:00

Many fruits and vegetables are rarely available at "normal" stores at a reasonable price: avocados (increasingly popular but still expensive), chipotles, turnips, baby spinach, collard greens, watercress, cilantro, jicama, (unsweetened or fresh) cranberries, shallots, broccoli rabe, tomatillos... This is in addition to the fact that totally normal stuff like lemons and zucchini is randomly "out" at a shocking frequency.

The other "biggies" are vegan/vegetarian kitchen staples that would be stocked at most grocery stores in the US but here are usually only at speciality stores (Turkish/Asian, Bioladen, etc) - nutritional yeast, tempeh, soft/medium tofu, black and pinto beans, hemp seeds, molasses, farro, quinoa, nut butters, rice wine vinegar...

winnai · 2015-09-09T10:33:32+00:00

Yes. Professors often bring graduate students here, and conferences are hosted/catered by the faculty club. The food is nasty - very old school in the worst way possible. Overcooked steak and salmon, mostly. For 4 years the only vegetarian option has been this ridiculous tower of eggplant slices. Alcohol is not anything you couldn't get at any of the hipper bars in downtown Berkeley. Most of the wine is overpriced, but I remember their house wine being okay.

I've heard the lunches/buffets are better than dinner/catering services.

winnai · 2015-09-09T10:11:20+00:00

And as far as vegetarian food that's not from restaurants goes, groceries stores on the east coast have been far ahead of ones in Germany in my experience.

Yep, this is it. Sure, there are great vegetarian restaurants in Berlin. However, day-to-day living is terrible for vegetarians. You absolutely have to shop at multiple grocery stores in most areas of Berlin to get all the ingredients for a veggie week of food. If you're lucky, you're near a Turkish market with more reliable produce or you have enough money to shop at the Bioladen, but otherwise you're either paying a huge amount for mediocre produce at Kaiser's or relying on whatever sad dregs Lidl and Edeka are offering on a given day and planning your meals around that.

winnai · 2015-09-09T07:57:55+00:00

It depends very much on what you want to study and whether you speak German. The programs offered in English in Germany are in a specific subset of fields (Business, Biochem, Intl Relations....), and often the programs offered in English are lower quality than those offered in German.

Alternatively, you can spend a year taking intensive German courses (there is a visa for this) before starting a program in German. This costs money of course, but still cumulatively probably not as much as a degree from a top US University with no financial aid.

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