23. Mai 2018
I was recently asked a question about English which started me thinking about grammar, but then led on to culture, creativity and ultimately - Soul. What was the question which can lead us on such a metaphysical path? Radio music. Yes indeed. If you are young enough, or your children are old enough, there was no escaping One Direction's Zayn Malik's "She don't love me." which was playing on the radio some time ago. Over and over. "She don't love me. She don't love me. She don't..." Wait a...
23. Mai 2018
I still remember, very clearly, the first German I met who wanted to brush up on his English skills. A student, but not a language student, he was planning to travel to Ireland on holiday. He wanted to improve on his English before he left. He took out a little wooden box filled with small cards with carefully written nouns, adjectives and short phrases. "I have to get through two hundred of these by next week," he announced. What was this? I was shocked. This seemed like some form of obscure...