Vocabulary: Difficult

Manage your vocabulary

Deborah Capras — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 10:21:07 +0200

This exercise tests your knowledge of how to form words from the base word manage. There are probably more forms than you expect!

Describing people

Deborah Capras — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 13:00:02 +0200

When managers have to assess and comment on the performance of the members of their teams, they should use appropriate language. Would you know the meaning of these adjectives?

beurteilen

Leistung

passend, angemessen

Tricky translations

Kirstie Crail — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 06:40:59 +0100

We've prepared a short online quiz based on Tricky Translations, a regular section in Business Spotlight magazine. This section focuses on words that are often difficult to translate. How well can you translate between German and English?

Press language 2009 (2)

Deborah Capras — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 00:21:07 +0100

In this quiz, we take a look back at events that took place between June and December 2009. Test your knowledge of the language used in the commentary pages of the world's most popular media.

How green is your computer?

Deborah Capras — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 12:21:06 +0200

Are you driving around in your car less? You probably think you're pretty "green", don't you? But what about the computer you're using to learn business English? Our test looks at how computers affect the environment.

Making more from profits

Deborah Capras — Tue, 26 May 2009 07:18:42 +0200

In this test, we focus on the word family "profit". Do you know which suffixes or prefixes to add to make the words needed to complete our sentences?

Customer collocations

Nina — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 13:36:17 +0100

Who’s important to your business? The customer, of course! Here, we present vocabulary to test your knowledge of words that collocate with customer.

Talking about performance

Kirstie Crail — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 13:28:30 +0100

Men often say that they performed better than than actually did, even at work. While women rarely talk about their own successes. Our language test looks at the vocabulary of talking about the performance of employees — whatever their gender.

Warren Buffett invests

Deborah Capras — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 10:22:21 +0200

This year, a Chinese businessman paid over $2 million for the privilege of dining with Warren Buffett. He doesn't need the money - he's the richest man in the world. That's why a date with him is worth millions.

Personal branding

Kirstie Crail — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 12:11:05 +0200

Your personal brand can work on many levels. In our exercise, as the personal brand is all about self-awareness (and in Madonna’s case self-confidence and self-discipline), we look at words that begin with "self-".