Jokes are not always easy to understand in another language, are they? Do you get this one?
“Old bankers never die, they just lose interest.”
(‘Interest’ can mean ‘Interesse’, but it also can mean ‘Zinsen’).
(to get a joke = to understand a joke)
Do you find a lot of presentations boring? How many can you remember? How many were really good? Geoffrey James says that it can be so easy to make them memorable. His solution? Tell a story.
Read his article in inc.com here – and use what you’ve learned in your next presentation!
You’re writing an email or letter and would like to give your personal opinion. Remember that plain and simple phrases are the best. So you could use the following:
I think … or I believe … (both less formal)
In my opinion … or In my view …(more formal)
I think that you’re doing a good job.
In my opinion, both examples are excellent.
Mark Twain offers us some great advice …”Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
German as a unified modern state has only existed since 1871. If you’re interested in German history, then you must listen to the BBC’s three part history of Germany before the world wars. You’ll learn about:
And here’s the answer to yesterday’s brain teaser: All the letters look the same in the mirror apart from the ‘R’.
