by Christine Burgmer | Nov 12, 2016 | Allgemein |
Try and get your tongue around this one here …
“How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
He would chuck, he would, as much as he could, and chuck as much wood
As a woodchuck would if a woodchuck could chuck wood.”
Now that’s quite a mouthful, isn’t it?
by Christine Burgmer | Nov 11, 2016 | Allgemein |
Listen to Scientific American’s 60-second
podcast entitled “Is Lying a Good Strategy?”. It’s fairly demanding, so don’t worry too much if you don’t understand everything. You can also find the transcript on the page to help you.
by Christine Burgmer | Nov 10, 2016 | Allgemein |
False friends are those English words that sound very much like the German words you know, but mean something completely different. You’ll find a lovely little list on the Bayerischer Rundfunk site.
by Christine Burgmer | Nov 9, 2016 | Allgemein |
Rather than learn fixed phrases when giving a presentation, I suggest that use your own words. And that’s exactly what Carl Kwan from Presentation Expressions recommends, too. Your presentation will sound so much more natural and spontaneous.
by Christine Burgmer | Nov 8, 2016 | Allgemein |
As far as I know there aren’t any fixed rules about how to use bullet points. So this is how I normally use them.
I like to introduce lists with a colon (that’s this punctuation mark here :).
I don’t use full-stops when I write a list of items.
Please bring with you:
- pens and paper
- dictionaries
- a pair of scissors
If my lists are made up of full sentences, I start each with a capital letter and end each with a full-stop.
Things to do before you write an email:
- Plan what you want to say.
- Make some notes.
- Think about your subject line, your salutation and how you want to sign off.
If my lists carry on from the introductory text, I use lower case (small letters) for the first letter in each bullet point and only add a full-stop to the very last sentence.
Before you write an email, remember to:
- plan what you want to say
- make some notes
- think about your subject line, your salutation and how you want to sign off.
by Christine Burgmer | Nov 7, 2016 | Allgemein |
“Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.” Benjamin Disraeli
