German-speaking

• “Our house sat in a redwood forest populated by bobcats, mushrooms, and what my German-speaking grandmother thrillingly referred to as Wildschweinen, “wild pigs,” disappointingly called “boar” in English.”

  Simon & Schuster: The English Is Coming!

• “Müller, born in a German-speaking village in Romania, writes almost exclusively about life in that country under the dictatorship of Nicolae Ceauescu.”

  Book Review: The Appointment by Herta Müller « A Progressive on the Prairie

• “[2] Müller, born in a German-speaking village in Romania, writes almost exclusively about life in that country under the dictatorship of Nicolae Ceauescu.”

  A Progressive on the Prairie » Book Review: The Appointment by Herta Müller » Print

• “A point must be made as to German-speaking linguistic areas, as opposed to just Germany de jure.”

  Matthew Yglesias » 18th Century Polish Strategic Dilemmas

• “They got the Rhineland and Westphalia after the Congress of Vienna, which vastly strengthened them vis a vis Austria (Vienna was the traditional center of power for the German-speaking world, seeing as it was the capital for the Hapsburg and predecessor Holy Roman Empire).”

  Matthew Yglesias » The Fall of Poland

• “I don't speak German, but I have (old) technophobic German-speaking relatives around here, as well as relatives in Germany who don't speak anything but German.”

  Gmail Labs Automatically Translates Your Email | Lifehacker Australia

• “Now, the watchword is evolution, with a series of impressive productions earning the house Jahrbuch Opernwelt's prize for Opera House of the Year 2011—the first time it has been awarded outside of a German-speaking country.”

  The Wall Street Journal: From Revolution to Evolution

• “All of the German-speaking festivals thrive on the sort of food that makes schnitzel seem the lite option.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Eat, Drink and Be Entertained

• “To be born Hungarian and Jewish and German-speaking is to start at a slightly odd angle to the world.”

  The Zealot

• “When I was a little boy, my German-speaking grandmother would mutter something whenever she picked up my baby sister or told my mother what a handsome son she had.”

  Simon & Schuster: In the Valley of the Shadow

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