My Blog until 2018

"Stuff you missed in history class" is a great site to go to if you love history. Choose a topic...

You really can’t have everything. Where on earth would you put it? 😉

How good is your Denglisch? Do the Denglisch quiz to find out. 🙂

We really don’t listen to music out of ‘boxes’, we listen to music out...

I love this tip. Joanna Goddard tells us how to introduce people to one another - with a nice...

In German, when someone says, "Danke", you most probably reply, "Bitte". Easy, isn't it? But what...

"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop." Confucius

Would you know how to behave if you were invited to a dinner party in America? Not to worry. Help...

When you go into court you are putting yourself in the hands of 12 people who were not smart...

Sitting at work for long periods of time is linked to a number of health problems, according to...

What Germans call a “Smoking” (to mean an item of gentlemen’s fashion) is not English. The correct...

You're working in Customer Care and a customer asks you a question you can't answer. Instead of...

I know we've spoken about saying 'thank you' before, but I thought you might like to read...

"The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it." Chinese...

Okay, you probably don't need to read the book "How to be German in 50 Easy Steps", but you might...

Did you know that everyone has a photographic memory? Some just don’t have film! 😉 Sometimes you...

How good are you at understanding other people? Do the test to find out (link to:...

We don’t use the word ‘Dressman’. We call that guy who models clothes, a ‘male model’.

If you can’t decide whether to leave your job or to stay in the company, then this BBC infographic...

We touched on the topic of apologising last week. Macmillan Dictionary's blog has a very useful...

"Fall seven times and stand up eight." Japanese proverb

In this BBC News article you can learn some interesting details about the Oktoberfest, beer and...

We know that light travels faster than sound, don't we? Now you know why some people appear bright...

Are you easily distracted? Do the test to find out.