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Lessons in Leadership

I’ve just come back from a weekend of input and inspiration at the annual conference for Business English trainers and the focus was, of course, on AI and ChatGPT and how we can use...

Doppelt gemoppelt

Now, there are some German words and phrases that just don’t translate into English, so I have adopted them into the English language 😊. One of them is ‘doppelt gemoppelt’ – I love it!...

Survival Strategies for Interviews

I recently read on a colleague’s website, “The problem is not the level of your English. The problem is how you feel when you speak it.” The more I talk to my students, the...

Wonderful German Words and Games

Some of you may know that I love playing games so it was lovely to start the weekend on Friday with a games night with good friends. We were playing Wizard (a highly recommendable...

Donkey Bridges

Now, do you use ‘donkey bridges’ for English words you just cannot remember? Of course, the official translation of ‘EselsbrĂŒcke’ is ‘mnemonic’, a word I’ve just had to look up twice to get the...

Books Galore (Part 2)!

As promised, and because it is still holiday season, my topic today is fiction books. Now fiction refers to literature created from the imagination and can be mysteries, science fiction, romance, fantast, chick lit...

Books Galore!

What do you like to do on holiday? Are you an avid reader? I have been asked for a list of good English books, but before I start I must tell you about ‘fake...

More on the Weather

I bet you guessed I would talk about the weather this week, didn’t you 😊. Some of you may know that it is NOT my weather, I am still very British when it comes...

The unsung Treasures of the East

I have just returned from a fascinating road trip around East Germany and was amazed by all the ‘unsung treasures’ we visited (to coin a phrase which a good friend of mine called the...

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