![]() ![]() computer banks.” He’s only voted once in his life, for Barack Obama in 2008. “Any email you write goes into the N.S.A. (At one point, he looks at his wife’s and says earnestly, “It’s listening to us right now.”) He uses email but “I worry about it,” he says. Crumb’s followed in the long line of artists and writers who have exiled themselves from America, but his life abroad feels far more circumscribed than most. He never really picked up French (he relies on Kominsky-Crumb for that), and his social circle is small. I don’t want people showing up here.”Ĭrumb used to attend comic conventions and book signings, but now he makes very few public appearances. Then he adds, “Maybe you shouldn’t even mention the name of the town. “Some of that romance turned out to be true,” Crumb says. “And I guess I had some romantic idea about living in the south of France.” “So we had to get out,” Kominsky-Crumb says. She comes from a long line of salespeople, and she just sold me on the idea of moving to France.” “Ask her,” Crumb tells me, gesturing to his wife. records, mostly from the 1920s and ’30s (Crumb owns 8,000 of them he’s been collecting “old music of all kinds from all over the world” since he was 16), a bulky metal drawing board, various instruments (he’s an accomplished musician), stacks of faded newspapers and books with titles like “Because Our Fathers Lied,” “UFOs and Nukes” and “Grey Aliens and the Harvesting of Souls.” (“I’m very interested in fringe things like that,” Crumb says.) I ask the couple, who have been together since 1971 and married in 1978, how they ended up here. Inside, we go upstairs to a dimly lit office, with shelves of 78 r.p.m. Affixed to the front door are what appear to be Catholic prayer cards though, on closer inspection, they depict Elvis Presley in a state of religious ecstasy. Cars aren’t allowed in town to get to the Crumbs’ house, I have to walk across a weathered bridge that traverses a murky canal. ![]() They found a place that feels like it’s almost protected from the march of progress. Crumb moved here in 1991 with his wife, the comics artist Aline Kominsky-Crumb, and their daughter, Sophie, who was 10 at the time. This is the work of Crumb’s I keep thinking about on the summer afternoon I arrive in a medieval village in the Cévennes region of southern France. A small box in the final panel, containing the only text apart from the title, asks, “What next?!!” Then the trees disappear entirely and the house becomes a general store, the general store becomes a gas station, the gas station becomes a used-car lot and the sky, once so big, is almost completely obscured by crisscrossing electric wires. Soon, there’s a log cabin, then telephone poles, then asphalt and cars. In the second, there are fewer trees and a train rolling down a track, ejecting plumes of black smoke. In the first, we see a bucolic field abutting a forest, birds flying overhead. Just look for what you need under the ‘Online-Uebungen’ tab.ĭeutschlernerblog – you can find here numerous exercises from the A1 to C2 level.Īll publishers offer online exercises that follow their textbooks.THERE’S A COMIC by Robert Crumb from 1979 called “A Short History of America.” It’s 12 panels, all portraying a single spot of land. is a great source of interactive online exercises too. You can also choose your level and then practice: here. You can also practice by different grammar topics here. Especially if you are at an advanced level. Learngrammatik is one interesting site where you can practice your grammar through interactive online exercises. This site is in German, but it is pretty intuitive so it shouldn’t be a problem for you to orient yourself.ĭeutschAkademie is a perfect application for you to practice German grammar. Every topic is associated with interactive online exercises.ĭeutschlernerblog – offers many materials, explanations, examples and exercises with regards to various grammar topics. Their topics are suitable for both native speakers and foreigners. Lingolia enables you also to learn grammar. Explanations and grammar rules are written in German. Just look under the tab ‘Grammatik’, ‘Verblisten’ (irregular verbs, Rektion etc.) or ‘Zusatmaterialien’ (additional exercises with given solutions). ![]() is also a valuable source of grammar theory. We all know that Deutsche Welle is an extraordinary source of Information for learners and teachers. The only problem is that the descriptions are in German. Grammar – LEARN the THEORY:ĭetailed explanations in English to various Grammar-topics can be found here: German Language Workshop. Check out the below possibilities to LEARN (theory) and PRACTICE (exercises) German Grammar online. Internet is more than valuable source of learning and practicing opportunities. ![]()
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