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FURTHER FALSE FRIENDS: FOOD

FURTHER FALSE FRIENDS: FOOD

Further False friendsLast time, I looked at the false friends that Spanish speakers of Business English can encounter when talking about health and the body. In this blog, I will extend my investigations to include the linguistic traps to avoid when you’re talking...
PERFIDIOUS ENGLISH: YOUR BODY

PERFIDIOUS ENGLISH: YOUR BODY

Men can get embarrassed as easily as women, but it’s trickier for a man to get pregnant.  This is one of the many false friends and other traps that lie in wait for Spanish speakers of Business English. These are important errors because they can make you feel stupid...
Aprende Ingles: The full backing off

Aprende Ingles: The full backing off

Hopefully, my last two blogs will have eradicated any fond ideas you might have had about BACK being a nice, simple word for the part of your body that’s hard to scratch. BACK can be the direction part of a phrasal verb, like when you go back to somewhere or put...

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