Message from the Chair 2 June 2020
Dear LALG Members
This week is national Volunteers' Week and I couldn’t let it pass without saying a huge Thank You to everyone in LALG who has kept us going through these strange times.
Items about spoken languages.
Dear LALG Members
This week is national Volunteers' Week and I couldn’t let it pass without saying a huge Thank You to everyone in LALG who has kept us going through these strange times.
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Dove |
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Group visit to Berlin - well worth the trip.
As every year the German Conversation Group had a New Year get-together with a generously loaded table contributed by the members.
When the Covid-19 virus struck we started online meetings per LALG's Zoom licence. It's still up to two hours of French language conversation with the additional refinement that some of the members of the group are sitting in their homes in France.
This was a slogan in Cold War days when West Berlin was isolated in the middle of the hostile territory of the DDR – Deutsche Demokratishe Republik, which was allied with the Soviet block, not entirely in accordance with the wishes of many of its citizens.
The LALG German Group meets every Tuesday evening throughout the year to enjoy two hours of informal conversation one hundred percent in German language. The meetings are in members' homes, alternating each week, and some wine, tea/coffee and cakes are part of the evening.