Cursos Humanos will not be posting for some time due to a new project that will take up all the time available. Maybe in the future. Bye for now,

Every now and then, if you are very lucky, you come across people who believe that quality matters. They might be Belgian Chocolatiers, Spanish sommeliers or maybe a artist hungrily painting in a Paris garret: People who simply don’t do  mediocre because mediocre is …well….simply not done.  If you are a connoisseur of radio drama, [...]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/mar/03/lady-justice-hallett-attacks-jargon-usage   The coroner at the inquests into the 52 deaths at the London suicide bombings accused emergency services chiefs of using too much jargon, adding that frontline workers might not understand the “management speak” used or the role of a counterpart at an emergency scene. Lady Justice Hallett unleashed her frustration at Gary Reason, [...]

…only those that drink it will roar! A new goddess has recently been born in India. She’s the Dalit Goddess of English. The Dalit (formerly untouchable) community is building a temple in Banka village in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh to worship the Goddess of the English language, which they believe will help [...]

I have recently taken ownership of my new Amazon Kindle e-book and I can not remember how I managed without it. Apart from being able to carry around all the world of Shakespeare and all six volumes of Gibbons ‘Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire’, and another 3000 books, I can upload my  own [...]

Have you ever wondered why junk email is called ‘spam’?  Well, it all started with the very peculiar English sense of humour of Monty Python’s Flying Circus back in the day. Have a look at the video.

I have just returned from Stoke-on-Trent in the English county of Staffordshire. The area is also called The Potteries because it used to be the ceramic centre of the British Empire, so to speak. The most interesting thing about The Potteries is that people still use Middle English words like ‘thee’. ‘thine’ and ‘art’.It is [...]

The great thing about being a language trainer is the people you meet. Last week  I had the immense fortune to spend a week’s immersion course with 18 young executives from Spain’s  BBVA bank. We were introducing them to the concept of Pecha Kucha. We tried to show them that Powerpoint can be a good [...]

I am developing new courses that align with my twin passions of theatre and music. The theatre course is principally for actors who would like to be familiar with classic, modern and contemporary English texts with a view to working on intonation, diction and voice. We will also look at theatre terms, vocabulary and traditions. [...]

We’ve decided to add an RSS feed from RRHH Digital, the online human resources journal which was founded in 2006. The feed is from their English language section and provides useful definitions and expressions from the world of business. RRHH Digital is a comprehensive online publication  that mixes offers of employment with latest news from [...]