von Christine Burgmer | Juli 23, 2026 | Sparks |
German English Quirks I Secretly Love: Capital Nouns There’s a quirk I secretly love in my clients’ English. Capitalising every Noun in an email. Meeting. Deadline. Attachment. They all want a capital letter in your head, whether English allows it or not....
von Christine Burgmer | Juli 22, 2026 | Sparks |
Fewer or less: the mistake that barely counts Fewer people care about “fewer” than you’d think. Somewhere, a supermarket checkout sign says “10 items or less.” Somewhere else, a small part of your brain silently fixes it to...
von Christine Burgmer | Juli 21, 2026 | Sparks |
You understand everything. Speaking is different. Have you ever noticed that understanding English and speaking it feel completely different? That’s because they are. And for a lot of professionals, that gap is quietly frustrating. Reading and listening help you...
von Christine Burgmer | Juli 20, 2026 | Sparks |
The word was there. It just came late. You knew the word. It was there. But when the moment came, it didn’t show up fast enough. I see this often in my sessions. You know the vocabulary. You understand the sentence. Then a small delay appears while your brain checks...
von Christine Burgmer | Juli 17, 2026 | Sparks |
The zombie test for passive voice You write an English sentence, and it feels stiff. Heavy. You can’t quite say why. Often it’s the passive, and German nudges you straight into it. “A decision was made.” “The report was finished.”...
von Christine Burgmer | Juli 16, 2026 | Sparks |
What the tortoise actually got right. In English meetings, you might feel like the tortoise. Everyone else races ahead while you’re a step behind, still searching for the word. You’ve probably decided that slow means losing. But look again at the old...
