Guest Blogs
Knowitall.ch often invites local experts in their field to contribute to their own blogs on our site. This means not only you will benefit from the useful recommendations that we make on our News pages, but you can also profit from some of the great advice and tips that these experts have to make on their favorite subjects. Whilst each of these bloggers has been recommended to us at some point during the evolution of Know-it-all passport and knowitall.ch, obviously we are not able to test out all the suggestions they make on their blogs, nor do we necessarily agree with all their opinions. So if you do find one of their tips useful (or not!), do let us know!
To make these blogs more accessible to you, we have now decided to group them altogether in one section, entitled Guest Blogs, accessible from our main menu bar. We will also post the most recent blogs on the home page of our site in the right hand column.
We are still building up this area of the site, and are looking for bloggers in a number of sections, including Your Home, Travel, and Leisure, so if you feel you have a useful contribution to make in either of these areas, and have the time to submit blog entries approximately every month, then please get in touch!
Submitted by Sabine Hutcheson, Education Consultant at TutorsPlus
As some readers may know, TutorsPlus is part of ASC Education Group which, for more than 40 years, has been providing high quality language training to private individuals, corporate clients and young learners in Geneva and Vaud. Having grown up with three languages in both English- and French-speaking countries, language learning is a subject near and dear to my heart. I’ve invited guest blogger Sandra Bialystok, polyglot and traveler, to share her thoughts on a topic which will surely touch most of you.
The advantages of language learning; or, what learning Italian taught Sandra Bialystok other than how to order the perfect pasta
Many years ago – when I was young and had few obligations – I went to Rome to live with my boyfriend (now my husband) and to learn Italian. My French boyfriend had been sent to Rome for his work, and after a crash course in the language, he was immediately expected to converse with the local employees. I, on the other hand, could learn the language in a more leisurely manner, even though I was eager to also become fluent.
Yateendra Sinh is the CEO of Lausanne Hospitality Consulting SA, the Consulting and Executive Education subsidiary of Ecole Hôtelière de Lausanne.
Since moving to Switzerland in 2000, Yateendra Sinh has delivered training and consultancy on strategic, managerial and operational issues, in over 36 countries.
He is a graduate in Economics from the University of Bombay and has a three-year post-graduate Diploma in Hotels & Management. He very kindly accepted to be interviewed. His thoughts and reflections about lifelong learning are not only insightful but also inspiring.
I hope you enjoy his interview as much as I did.
Enjoy!
Sunita
By Hiba Giacoletto, Healthwise
This is the simplest way ever to make a healthier pizza: Mixing cooked quinoa or millet with eggs, pressing this mixture into an oven dish and baking it. It’s a great idea to always make a bigger portion of whole grains anyway since they last for up to four days in the fridge. If your whole grain is already cooked, this dish really just takes 15 minutes. No messy doughs or complicated ingredients - and did I mention it is also gluten-free!
You can also use this crust as a base for garlic ‘bread’. Mix together a little olive oil, minced garlic, salt and dried oregano and pour this mixture over the crust without putting it back in the oven. Delicious!
By Nicola Ogilvie, Just Sew
The children have gone back to school, the holiday mess is nearly cleaned up, and normal routine resumes. I think this is a much better time for resolutions than New Year's Day when life is still a bit crazy. What better resolution than starting a new leisure activity or doing more of the one I already love. So why not start sewing!
I am going to tell you why I love to sew and then get you going with a simple project that takes 30 to 40 minutes. You will learn how to make the cosy cowl scarf I am wearing in the picture below.
If you would like to learn more about sewing, check out the classes I have planned for this year. I have another 2-hour "Get to know your sewing machine" class on the 24th January, perfect for anyone with a new machine or who is thinking of buying one. Go to my website at www.justsewgeneva.weebly.com for more details.
By Stephen Langton, Forth Capital
There has already been much written on falling oil prices, so here is a little more. However, I won’t be looking at the merits or not of this price fall, nor be trying to predict the effect on inflation, global growth and economic policy.
Instead I will take a brief historic look at real oil prices to try and see what may or may not be considered as normal.
So what is the normal price of oil? Or what has the average inflation adjusted price of oil been?
