I never knew that was a German thing! I've been using these for many years, my parents or some other family members always give me one as a lazy christmas present.
I prefer the Langenscheidt ones, because the content is less dense, they have excellent quality control/very few mistakes and I think the layout is much nicer. My brother had the Harenberg one for Latin once and said it was quite good (he teaches Latin), they give good and very in-depth explanations on the back (of course limited by space). I've also used the Buske/Chinese one once, and I felt that they try to cover too many levels, making some pages waaaay to easy and others very hard. My brother had the Buske/Turkish one that year (discontinued?) and shared my assessment. I might get another one from Buske anyway, the quality is definitely good enough and they cover rarer languages. All of them change the content and the way the calender is organized every year, sometimes for better, sometimes for worse.
patrickwilken wrote:What a great idea! I want to buy calendars for both German and Spanish. I think I'll go with Langenscheidt, I am big fan of their dictionaries.
From my personal experience, having more than one calender at once is hard to manage. If I don't put it right in front of me on my desk, I keep forgetting about them. When I had more than one, I tried putting the second one in the bathroom, on my nightstand or next to my front door, but nothing really worked. If you keep forgetting about the calender like me, pages will just pile up on your desk/stay on the calender. This happens to me every year and I've just accepted that I cannot read everything and that I might need to throw a lot of pages out unread in order to catch up and keep frustration down.
Anyway, if you come up with better strategies, let me know, because choosing the one language for my calender is a pain every year and I usually end up with a second unused one
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Also, I've yet to prepare I single dish from all the recipes they include
I never paid attention to it.)