Christine Burgmer | Blog » Language http://blog.english-trainer.de Ideas, news, tips and resources for the Business English learner Sun, 05 Feb 2012 19:06:36 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Podcasts http://blog.english-trainer.de/2011/11/podcasts-2/ http://blog.english-trainer.de/2011/11/podcasts-2/#comments Fri, 18 Nov 2011 20:10:05 +0000 Christine http://blog.english-trainer.de/?p=2997 Listen to some of these BBC podcasts if you want to make your English sound more natural.

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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,

“You speak Germany, right?”

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