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Happy St. Patrick’s Day – Are Ya Writing in Irish English? I Amn’t

Tomorrow, it’s St. Patrick’s Day, so I thought that instead of talking about the differences between British English and American English, why not take a short look at Irish English? Many years ago, I was in Rome on a short vacation. A lot of Irish people stayed in the hotel, and they were always full …

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Don’t Know How to Do Something? Learn It [Inspirational Video]

Don’t let anything stand between you and success. If you want to do something, or create something, and you don’t know how to… Learn it! Nothing is impossible! Or rather: Everything is possible! I just love when people take action, don’t you? Take a look at this inspirational video. It’s starring a young boy (6th …

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Do You Copy and Paste?

A loot of the books I’ve written were aimed at absolute beginners, and my friends had fun telling me that I wrote them using copy and paste. … What I do then is to read two or three articles about the subject, and then I write my own article based on the informations I found in the others.

Do You Have a Haunting Song?

When I was a child, I lived in Germany, and I learned to speak German, English and Danish almost at the same time.

…This means something like: “All my little dolls, Emmy and Mary, are still sleeping in their little beds, until tomorrow morning.”

Can Words Change Your Life?

I only worked four days a week (took the fifth off to start writing), but I was really bored at work, and I didn’t like to spend all that time in the train getting there, putting my kids to kindergarden etc. … There and then I decided that I wouldn’t want to spend my life just waiting for it to be over, always rushing towards Friday, only enjoying three days a week.

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