English stuff, Kiwi stuff, Colombian stuff, lot´s of stuff
Saturday, October 31, 2015
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Saturday, October 24, 2015
Thursday, October 22, 2015
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Tuesday, October 20, 2015
Daily bread 10/20/2015
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Colombia's middle class forced to tighten belt
- slows down
- picks up
- accelerating from
- dropped by
- decrease in
- at the higher end of the career ladder
- inflate
- increased by
- rapid drop
- fall in the price of
- deceleration of
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How to Learn Any Language Fast and Never Forget It | The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss
Monday, October 19, 2015
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Saturday, October 17, 2015
Thursday, October 15, 2015
Tuesday, October 13, 2015
Sunday, October 11, 2015
Saturday, October 10, 2015
Daily bread 10/10/2015
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IELTS Juice | Weekly Lessons | Who speaks at IELTS speaking session
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Twist - definition of twist by The Free Dictionary
- 8. An unexpected change in a process or a departure from a pattern, often producing a distortion or perversion: a twist of fate; a story with a quirky twist.
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Thursday, October 8, 2015
Wednesday, October 7, 2015
Daily bread 10/07/2015
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Managing across cultures | The Economist
- corporate culture is the key to success in the next wave of global mergers and acquisitions
- president and CEO of Nissan and Renault
- Nov 18th 2005
- An Oldie, but a goodie. Still applies today...perhaps, more than ever.
- acquire and absorb
- courtship
- synergies
- the motivation of individual employees and their ability to collaborate in teams
- cordial
- The news
- met with scepticism
- latent
- corporate culture is the key driver
- motivated employees
- maintain the best features of existing cultures while promoting necessary evolution
- a new global imperative: diversity
- we have embraced English as a language that allows us to communicate effectively with each other and with customers
- Gender
- We must make space for women
- Generational transition
- promotion and compensation based on merit not seniority
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Teaching expats new tricks – The Bogota Post
- Pursuing a career
- Teaching expats new tricks
- Pursuing a career
- note the typical collocation
- a whole host of
- hurdles
- sorting out
- persevere
- held three jobs
- know a lot of Spanish
- enough Spanish to get by,
- the exception not the rule
- on the fly.
- listened to Spanish constantly
- lend itself to
- immersing yourself in the language
- contacts
- build a network
- expats
- lookout for free language learning opportunities
- www.elempleo.com
- research the major companies
- Face to face contact
- studying at one of the universities
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Tuesday, October 6, 2015
Monday, October 5, 2015
Sunday, October 4, 2015
Daily bread 10/04/2015
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Business English Study - Bang & Olufsen - advanced level.flv - YouTube
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Survival English: 5 Tips on Where to Start with Absolute Beginners
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BBC Learning English - Course: intermediate / Unit 5 / Session 3 / Activity 1
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Business English Study - inspiring students & teachers Entrepreneurs, Companies, Brands
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Apple Watch Launching in Brazil and Colombia on October 16 - Mac Rumors
Saturday, October 3, 2015
Friday, October 2, 2015
Daily bread 10/02/2015
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8 Reasons Why We Love Colombian Coffee | Colombia Travel Blog by Marcela & See Colombia Travel
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Colombia's last nomadic tribe in despair at loss of culture - Yahoo News
"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYNOIMDEx48"
Thursday, October 1, 2015
Daily bread 10/01/2015
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The Artful Codgers BBC Documentary 2015 - YouTube
The Artful Codgers The Greenhalgh family from Lancashire conned the art world with a series of fakes sold to museums, galleries and collectors all over the globe, made in the garden shed of their shared council house in suburban Bolton. This highly acclaimed film uncovers the secret world of the most unlikely art forgers in history, interviewing the police who uncovered them, the experts they deceived and their friends and neighbours. For over 17 years, led by 87-year-old pensioner George, the family systematically deceived the art world, including dealers, auction houses, museums and private collectors. Despite having made hundreds of thousands of pounds from selling dozens of fakes, the family continued to lead a modest existence, totally cut off from the outside world with only themselves and their forgeries for company. While Shaun was busy carving, casting and painting the forgeries, his elderly father George was the salesman behind the operation. He played the part of the doddery old man to perfection, fooling the various experts that he came across into thinking that he had no idea of the value of what he possessed. But the family had, in fact, carefully researched lost masterpieces in art reference books from their local libraries, and skilfully assembled stories about the fakes' provenances that some experts and auction houses believed. Finally, in November 2005, their cottage industry in art and antiquities began to unravel when a minor error in an 'ancient' Assyrian tablet his son Shaun had knocked up in their garden shed was spotted by the British Museum. The police raided the Greenhalgh family home and discovered a house littered with fakes, among which were three of Shaun's previous attempts at creating the Amarna Princess, a statue of Tutankhamun's sister purported to be over 3,000 years old, which they had sold for £440,000 to Bolton Council.