My Blog until 2018

You can always talk about the weather when socialising with a customer or colleague. However, what...

This is so easy that we probably haven't given it much thought at all. According to Geoffrey James...

We've still got more phrases we can use when closing an email message. Here are five more you...

"I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it." Pablo Picasso

If you're not sure how to drink wine, you might like to read this lovely little article (link to:...

Henry and Sam were in a pub. Henry says to his friend, "My mother-in-law is an angel."...

Are you tired all the time? If so, you might like to read this article (link to Time.com) and see...

Watch this funny Fed Ex Commercial (link to: youtube.com) to hear a group of people mentioning...

If you're not sure you understand the difference between the simple past (I did) and the present...

Ping pong is another name for table tennis. You know, the game where two (or four) people hit a...

"You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation." Plato

If you're interested in the French business culture, you might like to read this article here...

"My wife's jealousy is getting ridiculous. The other day she looked at my calendar and wanted to...

If you'd like to test what kind of a genius you are, take a look at this article here (link to...

No, you can't say that your colleague is a 'lucky mushroom'. That won't work in English. But what...

.... that is the question. I've attended several presentations where the presenters have used...

A lot of people are not sure about this here. When you close an email or a letter, you only have...

Gertrude Stein once said, "Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone." And William Arthur Ward,...

We often used to spend our summer holidays hiking up and down the mountains in Austria. So I've...

"Most mothers tell their daughters to marry doctors. But I told mine to marry an archaeologist,...

Here's another quiz from the Telegraph. This time you're asked to identify 15 islands. But be...

We want to treat people with respect, don't we? Therefore, we need to be careful with our choice...

If you often confuse the two-letter prepositions 'in', 'on' or 'at', read the Voice of America's...

"Hyphen" is a word that very few people here seem to know. In German, it means "BIndestrich". Do...