Archive for April 2024

Issue #68 English Tips for: Business English Language Learners (B.E.L.L.) Photo by Gayatri Malhotra Butterflies 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. You can get “butterflies” in your stomach when you are speaking a second language to a native speaker. Fears of using the wrong word or mispronouncing something are common, but you can…

Issue #67 English Tips for: Business English Language Learners (B.E.L.L.) Photo by Alexandre Perotto Skydiving 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. Why would you jump out of a perfectly good plane? Some people enjoy this crazy sport, so this week we will look at the sport of skydiving. Grammar Tip and Writing Practice Language Level C2…

Issue #66 English Tips for: Business English Language Learners (B.E.L.L.) Photo by Alex Knight Robots 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. Are they cute or scary? Will they be helpful or wipe out humanity? Hollywood has pondered this question through many different films over the ages. It is inevitable that robots will become a more…

Issue #65 English Tips for: Business English Language Learners (B.E.L.L.) Photo by Debby Hudson Word Origins 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. Have you ever wondered why a water closet (WC) is called a restroom in America and a loo in England? In American English, many different languages and cultures have influenced language…

Issue #65 English Tips for: Business English Language Learners (B.E.L.L.) Photo by Debby Hudson Word Origins 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. Have you ever wondered why a water closet (WC) is called a restroom in America and a loo in England? In American English, many different languages and cultures have influenced language…