Cooking doesn’t have to be time consuming. Many meals can be cooked very quickly and will taste far better than a ready meal. If you have Pilze (mushrooms), Zwiebeln (onions) and Reis (rice) in the house, you can already cook a very tasty Italian mushroon risotto.

With Hackfleisch (mince), Kidneybohnen (kidney beans), gehackte Tomaten (chopped tomatoes) and onions, you can cook a quick Chilli Con Carne, or Spaghetti Bolognaise if you leave the kidney beans out.

The secret to great cooking is in the Zutaten (ingredients). With freshly prepared, high quality ingredients, you can make a truely mouth watering dish. There are many cooking websites and books out there with easy to follow Rezepten (recipes) that will turn you into the next Gordon Ramsey in no time. The only down side is all the Geschirr spülen (washing up) afterwards, but the great taste is worth it.

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Doch Michelle Obama und Carla Bruni entschlossen sich für eine Charme Offensive, wobei die poltics (Politik) nicht nur am Konferenztisch stattfand, sondern auch zu Hause am breakfast table (Frühstückstisch). Dies hatte nicht nur einen positiven Effekt auf die internationalen Friedensbemühungen, sondern auch auf gemeinsame Abrüstungsgespräche.

Obwohl Mrs. Obama und Madame Sarkozy keine offiziellen Ämter ausführen, hatten sie einen wesentlichen influence (Einfluss) auf die Politik des Jahres 2009. Ganz nebenbei haben sie auch bewiesen, dass die Politikergattinen keine Anhängsel ihrer berühmten Männer sind, sondern selbst stark sind. Beide haben erstaunlich erfolgreiche careers (Karrieren) hinter sich, sind self confident (selbstbewusst) und lassen sich nicht von der public (Öffentlichkeit) beeinflussen.

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Hello Double Translate fans!

After a lot of hard work and development, we have now released the first of what we hope to be a series of Double Translate language learning books.

Die Zeitmaschine is about four children who find a time machine. This time machine is to take them on many adventures, each exiting and dramatic. Make sure you check out out first book to see their first adventure with the time machine.

The first release is for English learning German. However, we hope to release the following languages soon:

• German learning English
• English learning Spanish
• Spanish learning English
• German learning Spanish
• Spanish learning German

The above should be available within the next month. More languages including French are also on their way soon so make sure you check our website for updates.

To celebrate the launch we have a very special offer. Every 10th order will get 100% of their money back. Its easy to tell if you are one of the lucky ones, if your order number ends in ’0′ then we will automatically refund your payment.

We shall be updating this blog with many tips and help to learning languages.