Archive for March 2024

Issue #64 English Tips for: Business English Language Learners (B.E.L.L.) Photo byTim Hart Grand Canyon Each week, I will send out some handy tips and useful exercises for adults learning to navigate and use the English language. Please feel free to share this newsletter with friends and colleagues. People come from all over the world to visit one of the seven natural wonders, but I was lucky enough to grow up in the Southwestern United States, where the Grand Canyon was practically in my…

Issue #63 English Tips for: Business English Language Learners (B.E.L.L.) Photo by Adrien Vajas Skateboarding Each week, I will send out some handy tips and useful exercises for adults learning to navigate and use the English language. Please feel free to share this newsletter with friends and colleagues. Skateboarding was created in the 1950’s in California by a group of surfers who wanted to “ride the waves” on land. Skateboarding gained popularity in the 60’s and 70’s and by the 1980’s…

Issue #62 English Tips for: Business English Language Learners (B.E.L.L.) The Ides of March Each week, I will send out some handy tips and useful exercises for adults learning to navigate and use the English language. Please feel free to share this newsletter with friends and colleagues. The soothsayer warned Julius Caesar, “Beware the Ides of March.” What is that? The Ides of March, or March 15th, was traditionally the day that citizens of Rome must have all of their debts settled (like tax…

Issue #61 English Tips for: Business English Language Learners (B.E.L.L.) Photo by Omar Lopez International Women’s Day Each week, I will send out some handy tips and useful exercises for adults learning to navigate and use the English language. Please feel free to share this newsletter with friends and colleagues. International Women’s Day was first observed around the world on March 8, 1910. It began in America in 1908 as women marched through the streets of New York to demand the end of…

Issue #60 English Tips for: Business English Language Learners (B.E.L.L.) Photo by Dmitry Ratushny How We Learn Each week, I will send out some handy tips and useful exercises for adults learning to navigate and use the English language. Please feel free to share this newsletter with friends and colleagues. There are lots of ways we learn. We learn through study, imitation, and repetition, but studies have shown that we are more likely to retain (remember) what we learn when we put it into…