Lost in Translation, part 2 accents + dialects business english conversational skills humor office communication podcast Jan 30, 2022

My last blog entry ended with the question:

Is there a difference between the US and the UK regardi...

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Lost in Translation, part 1 accents + dialects business english conversational skills office communication podcast Jan 13, 2022

Have you already heard about my latest endeavour? Since November 2021, I am hosting a podcast. Every...

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The brand new podcast behind the scene business english listening podcast technical english Dec 15, 2021

Why a podcast?

 

The day after recording my first podcast episode, I was asked this question by on...

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What is Technical English? myth buster technical english the foundation Nov 08, 2021

What is Technical English?

Back in 2021, I posted some general explanations to 'What is Business En...

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Not a comma and not a period: The Semicolon grammar punctuation writing Nov 01, 2021

 Today I posted a quick guide about semicolons on IG. Why? Because I recently read the most confusin...

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The ONE thing I ask new clients Oct 25, 2021

Every time I start working with a new client, I ask them to do one thing:

 

Forget your 'School-En...

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Articulation fluency speaking Oct 17, 2021

ARTICULATION a.k.a. WORDS CLEARLY SPOKEN


What do you need to do?
Express words so that they can easil...

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Turn that meeting into a phone call business english emails office communication writing Sep 26, 2021

For the last 1.5 years, I've always got the same answer whenever I asked one of my engineers how the...

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Do it anyway! about behind the scene myth buster Sep 13, 2021

So, the first time I tried snowboarding in 1997, it was a complete fail. Of epic proportions.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀...

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Language ISN'T your Business myth buster Sep 06, 2021

Gentle reminder today that as an engineer, you don't need to SOLVE EVERY PROBLEM by yourself! ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀...

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[u] is so beautiful Aug 29, 2021

What do you think?? How bad is mispronouncing English words?

Here's a quick tip on how to pronounce t...

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Truth Bomb about accents + dialects business english myth buster Aug 23, 2021

TRUTH BOMB: I'm not too fond of most linguistic terms: conjugations, parataxis, subordinate clauses,...

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