by Christine Burgmer | Oct 22, 2014 | Allgemein |
Read this article (link to www.entrepreneur.com) on how you can find out whether you use ‘ums’ and ‘ahs’ when speaking, particularly when presenting in front of an audience. And then find out how you can eliminate them. They say it’s...
by Christine Burgmer | Oct 21, 2014 | Allgemein |
Did you know that the first word after the greeting in an email or letter always starts with a capital letter in English? Yes, it’s quite different to what we do here in Germany, isn’t it? Something like this … “Dear Sam Thank you so much for...
by Christine Burgmer | Oct 20, 2014 | Allgemein |
“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.” Marcus Tullius Cicero
by Christine Burgmer | Oct 19, 2014 | Allgemein |
If you’re a history lover, you’ll like the BBC’s news archive website “On This Day”. It contains an online digital library of news stories reported by the BBC on World War II and on world events from the 1950s to 2005. Take a look what...
by Christine Burgmer | Oct 18, 2014 | Allgemein |
A Japanese soap manufacturing company received a complaint that a consumer had bought a box of soap that was empty. Management asked its engineers to solve the problem permanently to avoid it happening again. The engineers worked hard to devise an X-ray machine with...
by Christine Burgmer | Oct 17, 2014 | Allgemein |
In this very short YouTube video, Richard Wiseman (psychologist, author and magician) tells us what we can do when bad things happen to us. Take a look at Robert’s website to learn more about him. He’s got a very interesting blog …