The summer of 2020 was weirdly different as most of us knew it up to then. Fundamental practices like travelling, being carefree, embracing little things such as hugging, kissing and getting together were put on hold for as long as it takes.
So what is the “hot potato”( a controversial issue) issue of our times?
“Let’s have a group therapy meeting” is a phrase I hear quite frequently from business students being in a teasing mode but are they actually? Group lessons in the form of meetings reflect the actual business world which in order to be successful needs people who can deal with their colleagues in a professional fashion.
First let’s define what accent is and how different it is from pronunciation. The latter is related to someone’s ability to utter the words in a way that makes them intelligible to other speakers. Depending on their origin a speaker may pronounce the same word with a heavy accent or a lighter one, yet the …
Apparently so our Greek predecessors who incorporated the so called euphemismos in the language meaning ‘speaking well’. Euphemisms are linguistic devices occurring in everyday social interaction across the world. They are mostly used in an relieving way and as a strategy to neutralize wording or phrasing in order to remain courteous and potentially save the …
Listen and watch a TED talk by cognitive psychologist LeeAnn Renninger, called ”The Secret to Giving Great Feedback.” The main points to note is firstly the two different types of feedback givers and why both of these are equally problematic. The part of the brain called amygdala is scanning the messages all the time to …
In a mere few months, coronavirus has profoundly changed our ways of living.