“Her voice flowed in the Venetian cadence: in other circumstances, Brunetti would have slipped into Veneziano, but she was speaking in Italian, and so he did his part to retain the formality of the exchange.” You also want to know more about Veneziano, the local dialect which Brunetti uses to his advantage when interviewing witnesses of a certain age: The Donna Leon, Inspector Brunetti mysteries are set in Venice, and after two dozen of them, you begin to feel like you could navigate the labyrinthine streets without a map. These linguistic variations fit in perfectly in a book that is more about the evocation of time, place, and people than the actual whodunit.
'Teach Yourself German' kit from Edinburgh library system. In this sprawling, hard-boiled mystery thriller, Kerr describes six different regional German accents – from Berlin, Frankfurt, Bavaria, the Rhineland, Vienna, Latvia, and Munich. Self-made cards for everything in my Berlitz German Phrase Book and Dictionary. And it was a strangely accented German he spoke: like Prussian, but different more like the Old Prussian I had heard my grandfather speak almost like the German I had heard spoken in Poland.” It turns out the guard is Latvian.Ī mystery caller’s regional German accent is a clue to solving the mystery in part I of Berlin Noir. Learning German to work online is a smart move. In keeping up with growing trends, Germany has become a top place for digital nomads in clean energy, software, mechanical manufacturing, and AI. Germany has long been known for advances in manufacturing and innovation.
This is how mystery writer Phillip Kerr introduces a nefarious new character near the end of his trilogy Berlin Noir set before, during, and after World War II in Berlin and Vienna.įor me, the next best thing to travel is reading books set in other countries, particularly books like Kerr’s where the way the language is spoken is as important as the architectural style or the food.Įarlier, the book’s hero Herr Gunter is caught trespassing, and since he’s been grabbed from behind, he relies on clues in the guard’s German to assess the situation: “He sounded big and not too bright. Top German Speaking Digital Nomad Destinations.
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