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...
¡Es la hora de los propósitos de año nuevo! Pero, ¿cuáles son los tuyos? El comienzo de un nuevo año siempre viene ligado a la creación de una nueva lista de propósitos para este 2024. Es una muy buena manera de crear desde el primer día del año unos nuevos hábitos....
Calendario de Adviento: Contando los Días con Anticipación La llegada de diciembre marca el inicio del conteo regresivo hacia la Navidad, y muchas familias adoptan la tradición del calendario de Adviento. Este calendario especial, ya sea en forma de cajas numeradas,...
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...
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...
My last blog looked at the word BACK as a direction or destination, like UP or DOWN. When you go BACK (or run BACK, drive BACK, walk BACK, etc.), you go to where you originally started, or return. This use of BACK with movement verbs like go or come is very common in...
This month, you might well be sick to the back teeth of seeing the word BACK in your business emails from English-speakers. Kids are going back to school, suppliers are back at work, at last and customers promise to get back to you with updates on your unpaid invoices...
Why it’s worth making the effort with WORTH When a marketing company tell us that we’re worth it, we feel good because the “it” that we’re ‘worth’ is a lovely thing, and if our worth is so high that society wants to reward us with such luxury, we must be pretty damn...
Deconstructing Mindfulness in English You might recently have been advised to be more mindful. Some believe that, when life isstressful, your work seems endless and you feel helpless, being mindful can be a powerful tool. Whether or not you agree, mindfulness is...
¿Cómo evaluar a tus empleados si están realizando una formación de idiomas en la empresa? En primer lugar, destacar la importancia de la evaluación y seguimiento de tus empleados y su proceso mientras están formándose en un idioma. ¿Por qué? Es sencillo. Con ello...
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