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 can yield big results! 🙂
“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 long for something = sich nach etwas sehnen
‘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 President.”
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 understand how short-term memory works.
Since my school days, my short-term memory has always been better than my long-term memory, so I don’t find tests like this one SO difficult! 😉
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.”
