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How much do you know about David Beckham? Do the BBC quiz to find out. And just in case you don't...

How would you translate the German word "Zettelwirtschaft"? Piles of paperwork? Paper chaos? Bits...

You're having a conversation with someone, but would like to get away gracefully. What can you...

Have you ever seen the abbreviation p.a.? As in the sentence: Sales increased by 5 per cent p.a....

"No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness." Aristotle

Germans eat tons of potatoes every year, according to this Deutsche Welle article (and...

Here's a rhyming riddle for you today. "I come in different styles. I can help you walk for miles....

            Cockney rhyming slang is a type of slang in which words...

Germans have that lovely little word bitte. But how on earth can it be translated? Darf ich bitte...

People love hearing their own names. So when socialising, try and use people's names as often as...

After the salutation (or greeting) in a letter or email, we always start our text with a capital...

“Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”  Mark Twain

What do Germans typically eat during the summer months? You'll find the answers in Deutsche...

Tongue twisters are good if you want to practise your pronunciation. Give this one a try: "If a...

Are you a grammar guru? Do this BBC quiz to find out.

We've all been in meetings where one person goes on talking for what seems like hours and hours on...

Replace a negative phrase (a phrase with not) with just one word to make your sentences shorter...

"Happiness depends upon ourselves." Aristotle

Read this BBC article to find out the things you need to know about Bollywood - the Hindi language...

A riddle is a problem that is not always easy to solve or that has no clear answer. Here's one for...

            Do you know how to use apostrophes correctly? Do the...

So you go to someone with an Anliegen. You could say that you have a request to make. But you...

When we procrastinate, we don't do or we delay doing something that needs to be done. Why do we do...

We use the first conditional to talk about something that will happen (the result), if a...