von Christine Burgmer | Okt. 24, 2026 | Business Blog |
„Ich verstehe alles auf Englisch. Warum bekomme ich es trotzdem nicht raus?” Sie sitzen im Meeting und folgen mühelos. Sie verstehen jede Wendung, Sie wissen genau, was Sie sagen wollen, innerlich nicken Sie längst. Dann sind Sie dran, und es kommt nichts. Oder...
von Christine Burgmer | Okt. 23, 2026 | Sparks |
I said it perfectly. That was the problem. My first week in Germany, on a student job in Stuttgart, I went to the greengrocer’s and asked for “ein Pfund Granny Smith”. The woman had no idea what I wanted. I pointed at the green apples. “Ach,...
von Christine Burgmer | Okt. 22, 2026 | Sparks |
He didn’t know the session had started One of my clients, a managing director on the finance side, used to get restless after about three minutes. We’d be talking about the weekend or how the quarter was going, and he would shift in his seat and ask if we...
von Christine Burgmer | Okt. 21, 2026 | Sparks |
You can’t meet a football pitch A client was telling me about an indoor football place near his house. He said, “You can meet the pitch for an hour.” He meant hire. Mieten was sitting there in his head, close enough to meet that his mouth took it and...
von Christine Burgmer | Okt. 20, 2026 | Sparks |
He didn’t know the word. He described it instead. A client was telling me about a material his company makes. He didn’t have the English word for how thick it is. He kept going anyway. He said it was smooth like a smoothie, then thicker than yoghurt, then...
