9 May

3 key steps for exchanging information over the phone

Posted in staying on track

When I first came to Germany I worked in an office organizing exchanges between my home town Derby and the city of Osnabrück – a great job, but pretty challenging. Especially when it came to answering the phone (this was long before the email, so a lot of enquiries came by phone). People spoke so […]

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8 May

Is everyone on the same page?

Posted in staying on track

Do you ever need to discuss texts with a colleague? If you’re sitting together in the same room it’s relatively easy. You can go through the document together, pointing out on the screen or on paper where you have questions or suggestions. But what if  you need to ring a colleague to query parts of the translation of […]

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7 May

Don’t call it a beamer!

Posted in false friends and idioms

The German word Beamer may sound pretty English, but in fact it’s a classic false friend (a word which looks or sounds the same in both languages, but actually has completely different meanings). The English word for Beamer is projector. The word Beemer (with double e) is used to talk about a BMW. False friends […]

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