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Aprende Inglés: Useful or Useless?

Aprende Inglés: Useful or Useless?

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...
The sooner you learn this, the better

The sooner you learn this, the better

Using Comparatives to show Consequences Using comparatives to show consequences, that’s the topic of today. To make adjectives or adverbs comparative in English, you either stick an ‘-er’ on the end if your instinct tells you to, or you put the word ‘more’ in...
How to write a Job Ad in English

How to write a Job Ad in English

A lot of my contacts work in HR, so I get to see a lot of online job ads. As with any kind of advertising, there is an art to writing them, and if you have to do it in a weird language like English, it occurred to me that a bit of help might be useful. Less is More...
Keyboard Symbols: Dash, Slash and Hash

Keyboard Symbols: Dash, Slash and Hash

More Keyboard Symbols in English My last blog focused on how to say the main keyboard symbols you need to tell people your email address. Our company address is “Second AT Second-Language DOT net” (second@secondlanguage.net), so we only have to worry about two...
What the $#!@%?

What the $#!@%?

Keyboard Symbols in English Hopefully, most of you by now have broken all your New Year’s Resolutions and started on the serious business of getting through January without murdering anyone. As a result, you won’t find anything motivational or likely to inspire you to...
Festivities in English

Festivities in English

Christmas is coming and many people’s thoughts are turning to parties and celebrations. For non-Brits working in England, I thought it might be useful to give a run-down of what awaits you in the next few weeks. The Office Do First, there’s a good chance that your...
Festive English

Festive English

Christmas Christmas is fast approaching and, as if you didn’t have enough on your plate at work, you now have to remember all that once-a-year vocabulary you need to be nice to your English-speaking contacts. If you’re not sure about the differences between a bank...

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