by Christine Burgmer | Sep 8, 2015 | Allgemein |
We still need to write letters now and again, don’t we? But do you know what they should look like?
This is the American style (link to thevisualcommunicationguy.com).
The British style is a bit different. For example, we don’t use a colon (:) after the salutation in Britain. In fact, it’s not even necessary to insert a comma after the salutation (the beginning) and the complimentary closing (the ending). So we would write:
Dear Ms Smith
Thank you so much for your … blah, blah, blah.
Yours sincerely
Christine Burgmer
You might like to read the BBC World Service’s article on the conventions of writing a British business letter, just to stay up to date.
by Christine Burgmer | Sep 7, 2015 | Allgemein |
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.” Mark Twain
Isn’t this great advice for all of us?
by Christine Burgmer | Sep 6, 2015 | Allgemein |
A British business partner invites you to his/her party. Would you know how to behave? Etiquette expert William Hanson has, as always, wonderful tips for us.
by Christine Burgmer | Sep 5, 2015 | Allgemein |
Copy this wonderful spellchecker poem onto your computer and see how many mistakes you can find! You might be surprised!
I halve a spelling checker,
It came with my pea see.
It plainly marks four my revue
mistakes I dew Knot Sea.
Eye strike a key and type a word
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am wrong oar write
It shows me strait aweigh.
As soon as a mist ache is maid
it nose bee fore two long
And eye can put the era rite
it’s rarely ever wrong.
I’ve scent this massage threw it,
And I’m shore your pleased too no
Its letter prefect in every weigh;
My checker tolled me sew.
by Christine Burgmer | Sep 4, 2015 | Allgemein |
How many English words do you know? This vocabulary test from Ghent University’s Center for Reading Research only takes 4 minutes to complete and is fun to do (well, I enjoyed it!). You get your results at the end – and you’re helping scientific research at the same time.
Good luck if you give it a try!
