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Van de bestseller I always get my sin, met fouten die Nederlandse ministers, state secretaries en top hotemetotes in het Engels maken, zijn al ruim 250.000 exemplaren verkocht. Maar hoe voorkom je zelf zulke blunders?
Are you not on glad ice?
We always get our sin too laat niet alleen zien welke gekke fouten je in het Engels kunt maken, maar ook hoe je ze kunt vermijden.
Are you sticking your head in the sand?
Met de vele nieuwe fouten die Maarten Rijkens heeft verzameld, is We always get our sin too een hilarisch vervolg op I always get my sin en een must have voor liefhebbers van bizar Engels die het zelf wél goed willen doen.
I can see it totally in front of me!
Rijkens: ‘Most Dutch people come in the war when they try to talk good English. In I always get my sin I toned the bizarre faults that are made. But in We always get our sin too we also give you a real holdfast how to forecome these problems. And how well to do it. I know sure that you will be interesting in it.’
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Stella Rimington was educated at Nottingham Girls' High School, and Edinburgh and Liverpool Universities. In 1959 she started work in the Worcestershire County Archives, moving in 1962 to the India Office Library in London, as Assistant Keeper responsible for manuscripts relating to the period of the British rule in India. In 1965 she joined the Security Service (MI5) part-time, while she was in India accompanying her husband on a posting to the British High Commission in New Delhi. On her return to the Uk she joined MI5 as a full-time employee.
During her career in MI5, which lasted from 1969 to 1996, Stella Rimington worked in all the main fields of the Service's responsibilities - counter-subversion, counter-espionage and counter-terrorism - and became successively Director of all three branches. She was appointed Director-General of MI5 in 1992. She was the first woman to hold the post and the first Director-General whose name was publicly announced on appointment. During her time as Dg she pursued a policy of greater openness for MI5, giving the 1994 Dimbleby Lecture on Bbc TV and several other public lectures and publishing a booklet about the Service. She was made a Dame Commander of the Bath (DCB) in 1995 and has been awarded the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws by the Universities of Nottingham and Exeter.
Following her retirement from MI5 in 1996, she has become a Non-Executive Director of Marks & Spencer, Bg Group plc and Whitehead Mann Gkr. She is Chairman of the Institute of Cancer Research and a member of the Board of the Royal Marsden Nhs Trust. She has two daughters and a granddaughter.
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The theme of non-communication in human relationships in a world saturated with information is the connecting thread in this collection of stories. The mystery of light in Vermeer's famous painting inspires a writer; and a salesman is helped by a rock musician as he waits for his runaway son.
The author:Manuel Rivas was born in A Coruña in 1957. He writes in the Galician language of north-west Spain. He is well known in Spain for his journalism and television programmes, as well as for his prize-winning short stories and novels. Janathan Dunne is the translator of two of Manuel Rivas's novels, Vermeer's Milkmaid and En salvaxe compaña