by Christine Burgmer | Dec 2, 2014 | Allgemein |
Those shiny glass balls that we hang on the Christmas tree are called “baubles” (in German: Weihnachtskugeln). We don’t call them “Christmas balls” in English! And, the 26th of December (known in Germany as the “2....
by Christine Burgmer | Dec 1, 2014 | Allgemein |
December means that Christmas will soon be upon us. And, I’ll be posting an A – Z of Christmas vocabulary you might need when speaking to foreign customers and colleagues. So let’s get going with A …. The time before Christmas, what we call the...
by Christine Burgmer | Nov 30, 2014 | Allgemein |
If you do business with the Portuguese or are thinking of travelling to Portugal, you might like to look at this free Kindle edition I found on Amazon.de called “The Xenophobe’s Guide to the Portuguese”. It covers all kinds of topics from attitudes...
by Christine Burgmer | Nov 29, 2014 | Allgemein |
Joke of the day … Boss to employee: You should have been here at 9 am. Employee to boss: Why what happened? (So you know how to react on a Monday morning!) 😉
by Christine Burgmer | Nov 28, 2014 | Allgemein |
Take a look at this nice little slideshow (link to www.inc.com) giving you 23 ways to be happier at work. It’s clear that we shouldn’t compare ourselves to others, that we all have the same amount of time and that we should smile and laugh more often. But...
by Christine Burgmer | Nov 27, 2014 | Allgemein |
Okay, you might not need this word too often, however I do have a group of clients who work with this product. We’re talking here about ‘enamel’, which can be translated as ‘Lack’. Follow this link and click on the loudspeaker icon to...
