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
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 INGLÉS: Backing off
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...
Aprende Inglés: Getting back
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...