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Here's a little quiz I found on the spiegel.de website. Do you know the vocabulary and grammar you...

  The person who works in the kitchen of a hotel or restaurant is called a 'chef' and not a...

20 Rules for Selling Ideas to Your Boss from Bruce Kasanoff Do you want to learn how to get on...

Do you remember that we've already spoken about this before? Your writing will be much clearer if...

"An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind." Mahatma Gandhi So who was Mahatma...

'Queuing' means 'standing in line' and it's something that the British feel they invented. In his...

Let's see if you spotted the mistakes yesterday ... You are (or you're) the best person for the...

Here's a quick test for you. Can you find the mistakes in these sentences? There's one mistake in...

So have you made a 'date' or an 'appointment'? A 'date' is another name for a 'rendezvous' (so we...

Do you often find it difficult to get started and find yourself putting off actions or tasks to a...

It's your decision whether you would like to write 'percent' or 'per cent' (as one or as two...

"I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead." Mark Twain

Well, I had tennis at school and did everything to get out of having to play it. So I've never...

Would you like to know how good your grammar is? Why not do the Grammatically Speaking quiz? It...

A lot of people find it difficult to translate the German word 'Praktikum'. I like to talk about a...

You've been asked to give a presentation? According to Carl Kwan you first need to think about the...

In Germany there's a saying, "Doppelt gemoppelt hält besser". But is that really true? Well, in...

"People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the...

You would like to learn a bit more about New York before you go on a business trip or just out of...

A young executive was leaving the office late one evening when he found the Managing Director...

Why not do the BBC's personality test and find out what kind of person you are? Are you more the...

The Telegraph has collected a lot of strange signs - all to do with restaurant menus! I mean who...

'Kwik Learning' explains the interesting time management method called the Pomodoro technique (we...