by Christine Burgmer | Aug 5, 2017 | Allgemein |
Here’s a rhyming riddle for you today. “I come in different styles. I can help you walk for miles. I come in a pair. I’m something you wear.” Scroll down the page for the answer. “A pair of...
by Christine Burgmer | Aug 4, 2017 | Allgemein |
Cockney rhyming slang is a type of slang in which words are replaced by words or phrases they rhyme with. As I learnt from this article in The Guardian, “brown bread” is Cockney rhyming slang for dead, “china...
by Christine Burgmer | Aug 3, 2017 | Allgemein |
Germans have that lovely little word bitte. But how on earth can it be translated? Darf ich bitte das Buch haben? May I have the book, please? While handing the book over to you, the person might say: Bitte schön. Or Bitte sehr. And you would reply: Thank you. In...
by Christine Burgmer | Aug 2, 2017 | Allgemein |
People love hearing their own names. So when socialising, try and use people’s names as often as you can while talking to them. It’s a great way to build trust and to make people feel valued. And it’ll help you remember their names better! 😉 But, of...
by Christine Burgmer | Aug 1, 2017 | Allgemein |
After the salutation (or greeting) in a letter or email, we always start our text with a capital letter. It looks like this … Dear Michael (with or without a comma here) Many thanks for …. It’s different in German. Perhaps that’s why so many...
by Christine Burgmer | Jul 31, 2017 | Allgemein |
“Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.” Mark Twain
