von Christine Burgmer | Okt. 19, 2026 | Sparks |
Her emails don’t sound like her A client I started working with recently is finding her spoken English again after thirty years away from it. We go slowly. We laugh a lot. Then her emails arrive. Fluent, well turned, the odd idiom in exactly the right place. I...
von Christine Burgmer | Okt. 16, 2026 | Business Blog |
Bevor Sie eine Trainerin buchen: vier Fragen, die Ihnen viel Geld sparen Sprachtraining einzukaufen ist schwierig, weil Sie das Ergebnis vorher nicht sehen können. Am Telefon klingen alle freundlich und kompetent, und dann sitzen Sie in einem Kurs, der Ihnen nichts...
von Christine Burgmer | Okt. 16, 2026 | Sparks |
Accusative or dative, that is the question For years I couldn’t reliably choose between „ich gehe in den Wald“ and „ich gehe im Wald spazieren“. Accusative or dative, depending on whether you’re going there or already there. I...
von Christine Burgmer | Okt. 15, 2026 | Sparks |
Become or bekommen? The mistake that never cost anyone anything „I will become a steak.“ It’s the most famous mistake German speakers make in English, and most of you met it in a classroom, probably with laughter attached. Here’s the part...
von Christine Burgmer | Okt. 14, 2026 | Sparks |
Nobody asked you to apologise „I’m sorry, my English isn’t very good.“ Then forty minutes of clear, precise English. Good sentences. Exactly the right word for the thing they do every day. When I say so afterwards, they nod politely. They think...
