by swtraining | Sep 19, 2024 | Blog, Uncategorized
If you take a beginner’s course in general German, you may never encounter these verbs. If , however, you want to learn Business German efficiently, you will encounter them in the very first lesson – provided, of course, you learn Business German from a...
by swtraining | Sep 18, 2024 | Blog, Uncategorized
Some intercultural differences are difficult to understand and explain. But there are also differences that are very easy to explain. For example, when an American client once asked me: “Why don’t you Germans drink your beer ice-cold?”, my answer was...
by swtraining | Sep 18, 2024 | Blog, Uncategorized
I had done my best and tried to explain to my American client Tom when to use ‘haben’ as an auxiliary verb and when to use ‘sein’ in the perfect German. But Tom wasn’t entirely satisfied. “That’s certainly right, Niels. But...
by swtraining | Sep 17, 2024 | Blog, Uncategorized
“Every noun has a gender, and there is neither sense nor system in the distribution; therefore you must learn the gender of each noun by heart. There is no other way. If you want to tackle this, you must have a memory like a memorial book.” This is how...
by swtraining | Sep 16, 2024 | Blog, Uncategorized
In terms of grammar, Business German hardly differs from German as a general language. In terms of vocabulary, however, it differs a lot.. And here the purchasing manager in the automotive industry needs a largely different technical vocabulary than the chief...
by swtraining | Sep 16, 2024 | Blog, Uncategorized
At the end of a long trip through the UK, we met Gordon in London. Gordon had worked as a banker in Frankfurt for a few years. During this time, Gordon had visited us several times for intensive German courses in Meersburg. Now he was back home. We met in one of those...
