Grammar Girl here. I'm In Yon Fogarty and just a heads up that today's show was originally a bonus episode released back in March for people who support the show, the Grammar Pellusians. If you like what we do every week and want to support the show and get ad-free podcasts and these bonuses

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and now onto the show greetings grammar pelusians i'm here with headwin newton we just did the main

segment where we talked about all sorts of fabulous slang and new words and the Mandela effect and Yosemite Sam, it was fabulous. If you haven't listened to it, go check it out. But in this bonus segment, well, let me, first let me tell you who Edwin is. Headwin is an English teacher and translator in Germany who was raised in a bilingual household.

And she has a newsletter that I love called English in Progress.

It comes out every couple months or so, every month or two.

But she also has a translation site where she helps people translate, find English translations

for Dutch words that are hard to translate. So we're going to

talk about some of those difficult to translate words and also get her book recommendations.

Edwin Newton, welcome to the Grammar Palluzza bonus segment. Thank you so much. Yeah. So,

you know, it's funny because I was not aware of your translation work. I only knew your English in Progress newsletter.

But then as I was sort of researching you for this episode, I became fascinated with the whole other part of what you do in these untranslatable Dutch words.

And it was hilarious because it was immediately brought home to me how true it is because I went

to your website and I presume it's in Dutch and Google had the button that says translate this

website and I clicked that button and almost none of it made sense. It was definitely difficult for

Google to translate. How did you get into doing this work?

Yeah. So I started out, well, maybe not life, but I started out my working life, I suppose,

as a translator. A long time ago, I was working behind the bar in a cafe in Naime here in the

Netherlands, because that's where I'm from.

I'm actually from the Netherlands.

And a guy said, hey, I heard that you're bilingual.

I heard that you were raised in English.

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