by Christine Burgmer | Oct 27, 2015 | Allgemein |
If you want your email to sound more respectful, try leaving out these three words: ‘actually’, ‘sorry’ and ‘me’! Read this article (link to time.com) to find out what alternatives you can use! You’ll see that small changes...
by Christine Burgmer | Oct 26, 2015 | Allgemein |
“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.” Antoine de Saint-Exupery to drum up people = Leute zusammentrommeln to...
by Christine Burgmer | Oct 25, 2015 | Allgemein |
Do this intercultural quiz (link to: dialogin.com) to find out how well you know your American (and German) neighbours in terms of their cultural upbringing. British English: neighbours American English: neighbors
by Christine Burgmer | Oct 24, 2015 | Allgemein |
‘You should be ashamed,’ the father said to his son, Mike, “When Abraham Lincoln was your age, he used to walk ten miles every day to get to school.” “Is that true?” Mike asked. “Well, when he was your age, he was...
by Christine Burgmer | Oct 23, 2015 | Allgemein |
Are you good at retrieving information from your short-term memory? Do this test (link to: labinthewild.org) to find out and then see how your performance compares to others. It only takes just under 10 minutes to do, and has been designed to help researchers...
by Christine Burgmer | Oct 22, 2015 | Allgemein |
The word ‘training’ in English does not have a plural (unlike in German). So we say, “We offer a number of training sessions (‘trainings’) for organisations.”
