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Want to make an impact in your next business meeting? Ga Lok Chung of Toastmasters International offers some tips to help you do just that... If you’ve never watched the movie Big it is well worth checking it out. In the context of meetings, it has the great example where the child Josh Baskins, who has been turned into a grown up played by Tom Hanks, is participating in a marketing campa...
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Tandem, the language learning app that makes the process a whole lot easier... With most of us likely to be spending more time at home in the coming weeks, we ought to be thinking of ways to use that time well. It may be easy to wile away the hours endlessly scrolling through social media but apart from being a waste of time, it’s also pretty detrimental to our mental health. It’d be ...
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Lirica - The musictech & edtech startup that's using music to help people learn a new language... If you’ve ever tried to learn a language you’ll know that it’s not always that easy. Getting your head around the grammar and pronunciations alone can be a challenge to say the least. Help is now at hand however thanks to our latest startup of the week which has created one of t...
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Words. Perhaps we could insert some kind of eloquent, almost poetic sentiment here about how words do stuff and things and are good; however, we didn’t have the benefit of learning from London-based EdTech startup Mrs Wordsmith (not to be confused with Mr Swordsmith, we were mildly disappointed to discover). The team behind Mrs Wordsmith includes professors of linguistics, lecturers in...
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