#blackteaandlanguages

l’actualité - current events

crise économique - economic crisis

paix - peace

la guerre - war

cessez-le-feu - ceasefire

attentat - attack

territoire - territory

ressortissants - citizens, nationals

la mort - death

espoir - hope, prospect

étrangères - foreign

interdiction - ban, prohibition

resultat, issue - outcome

répercussions - implications, effects

meurtrier - deadly

témoignages - testimonies

décéder - to pass away

viser - to target

blesser - to injure, wound

combattre - to combat, fight

mourir de - to die of

faire le deuil - to grive, mourn

négocier - to negotiate

terminer - to complete, end, fihish

compromettre - to compromise, jeopardize

Hello!! I’m very sorry for the delay. Here’s the list. 

I avoided writing the last haraka in the pronunciation section because the haraka at the end of the word depending on the sentence.

حرف الباء

حرف التاء

حرف الثاء

حرف النون

حرف الياء

Today I decided that I would go shopping for a few new tea flavours to try. However, because I have absolutely no impulse control, that "few" I originally had in mind soon turned into seven- seven tea flavours. They were on special, but still!

These new additions to my collection bring my total up to a whopping fourteen- and counting. Because I try so many different teas, I thought it would be fun to document them each into a little mini-series.

Today's tea is: Cardamon, Ginger and Orange!

Initial thoughts: At first glance, this tea looked amazing. It's packaging was lovely, it smelled delicious and just sounded warm and cozy- which is definitely a good thing considering we're going through the rear end of winter right now. After pulling out the sachet the scent really came through, and I could smell it even from the next room while I waited for the jug to boil. The tea turned an enticing, almost caramel-like colour once boiling water was added.

The taste test: On the first sip, the immediate taste on my tongue was of the orange. Subtle yet sweet, it was quickly washed out by a strong ginger flavour. I wouldn’t go so far as to call this “spicy,” but there was definitely a warm aftertaste accompanied by a light touch of cardamon.

Overall: This is the kind of tea I would curl up in bed with while it rained down outside. It’s sweet but not sickly, yet with a small kick to it so it isn’t overbearing to your tastebuds and doesn’t have an annoyingly long-lasting aftertaste. This is definitely one of my new favourites.

Thank you so much for reading! As mentioned above, I do have thirteen other teas to try, but let me know if there’s a particular tea you’d like me to review and I’ll try my hardest! I’m doing this mostly as my own documentation, but I would love to hear your thoughts.

Love,

Well, ok... Listen, I don’t really take that kind of anon commentary very seriously. You hide behind an anon feature to make fun of one (1) positive post I made once that has gotten quite a few notes? I don’t really care.

Just to qualify because you commented: I’m not offended when people call German ugly or harsh. It’s their opinion and it has nothing to do with me personally. You can only be proud of things you achieved yourself. I did not invent German. I just grew up speaking it. It’s my language but it’s not mine. 

It’s just that it’s not ‘some foreigners in Germany’ who say it’s an ugly language. It’s the majority of English speaking media which mostly dominate the scene. And it’s because they don’t know actual German. Most of them only know it from history class or because they heard some German person yell once or some American person try to speak for fun German and overdo it on purpose. Videos such as this don’t help either. That’s not what German sounds like. (But to be completely honest, that video made me laugh too. It’s funny. We Germans make fun of our language too.)