My Blog until 2018

Do you really have to do that activity or do you choose to do it? Marshall Rosenberg, the father...

If you're sorry you say, "I'm sorry." If you say, "I'm sorry but ..." then that means that you're...

I often hear people say they're 'boring' when they mean they're 'bored'. Or they say they're...

"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they...

British etiquette expert William Hanson tells us how to take care of our suits in this article. He...

A tramp knocks on the door of a pub called "St. George and the Dragon". The landlady answers....

Do this quick BBC online quiz. Do you know "who said" these sentences? Was it the great Mahatma...

You're probably doing this already, but if not you might like to consider giving this a try. When...

Perhaps we don't like saying 'no' because we want to be helpful and don't want to hurt our image....

A lot of people don't know when to use 'how much' and when to use 'how many'. I find that it's...

Kwintessential's guides are great when you need to do a bit of quick research on the culture,...

A woman found her husband standing on the bathroom scales, pulling in his stomach. "Ha, ha," she...

There's a strange phenomenon that has been proven to show that "because most people possess...

Geoffrey James tells us to remove or replace three slides he calls 'boring' to make our...

Another grammar point we talked about over a year ago is the difference between you're and your....

"The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation." Mark Twain vocation = Berufung

Years ago cheese was virtually unknown in China. However, it is now becoming more and more popular...

Try and twist your tongue around this little rhyme here: "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled...

How good are you with colour? Do you have what it takes to become a designer? Do the test (link...

When pronouncing the word "February", remember not to drop the first 'r'. You can listen to the...

If you're planning on giving a presentation soon, you might like to work your way through this...

We talked about when to use 'a' and when to use 'an' over a year ago. So now it's time to test...

“Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”  Albert Einstein

A few weeks ago we spoke about the difference between pudding and dessert, as seen by a British...