Christine Burgmer | Blog

Listen to some of these BBC podcasts if you want to make your English sound more natural.

… that some German words are used in the English language?

German words that sound like English words can cause us a lot of problems, can’t they?  How would you translate ‘Bad’, ‘sensibel’ and ‘Rock’, for example …

Do you ever gatecrash?  You don’t know what the word means?  It means to go to a party even though you haven’t been invited.

Here a funny little video clip on the problems with those false friends!

It’s good to know that native speakers make mistakes, too!  Here a teacher posts some of the things his students have actually said.

Things like this …

I had a new student from Belgium.  Students were intrigued by him and the fact that he spoke several languages.  One of them asked him,

VOA Special English program has a nice story using some financial words and expressions used in business and the stock market.  You can read or even listen to it here.