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  • November 23, 2021

    Welcome to Bowman English

    I’ve just launched my new website, which serves as a successor to what was formerly known as Camelot English. I hope to be more interactive on this website and update the blog with fun posts on what to watch, what to read, things you shouldn’t say in an English-speaking country and other helpful tidbits to […]

  • March 5, 2022

    Get your 90s nostalgia fix while improving your English.

    If you’re on the lookout for something new to watch, look no further than the psychological thriller ‘Yellowjackets’. Starring some iconic 90s actresses like Christina Ricci (Now and Then, The Addams Family), Juliette Lewis (Natural Born Killers) & Melanie Lynskey (Heavenly Creatures, But I’m a Cheerleader), Yellowjackets tells the story of a girls’ soccer team […]

  • February 7, 2022

    Common Mistakes – ‘Dusche’

    Today I’d like to share another common but humorous faux pas that native German speakers make in English. In German, the verb ‘duschen‘ means ‘to shower‘, and I’ve had students who have made the seemingly harmless mistake of using the German verb, anglicising it to ‘dusch’, and using it in a sentence. In fact, the […]

  • January 31, 2022

    Coffee: A Sonnet

    A poem I wrote to commemorate my addiction to coffee ☕️

  • January 17, 2022

    Common Mistakes – ‘Become’

    Happy New Year, everyone! I hope you’re all settling comfortably into 2022. Today I’d like to focus on a word that is commonly misused by German native speakers: ‘become’. This word is often (and understandably) confused with the German word ‘bekommen’ (to get/receive), leading to awkward sentences like ‘My sister became a baby!’ or ‘Did […]

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