I’m staring at a blank page. A blinking cursor is waiting for me. Where should I begin? What should I write? I type a few words, but I don’t like their sound and delete them. I insert half a sentence, make it to the first conjunction, and start over again. I try to create another line and end up with a blank page once more. That’s what writing my …
When I was planning to move to Germany back in 2018, DeepL had recently introduced its online translator. DeepL’s ability to turn German into Dutch and vice versa immediately astounded me. It was miles ahead of Google Translate and especially shone when literal translations wouldn’t be accurate, like with idiomatic expressions. DeepL quickly …
Until last year, if you’d asked me to describe myself in one word, I’d have said I was a perfectionist. Almost twenty years earlier, I fully lived out my perfectionism in university. During the first year of my studies, I had a lot of time on my hands. I spent most of it studying—to practice and perfect my newly acquired skills. My thorough work …