As I keep struggling to progress my Hindi...as my German language skills start to disappear...and as I hear so many languages spoken around my office each and every day...I had a light bulb moment. I...
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Last week I read this article on Fluent in 3 Months about how the author communicated on a train in India when he didn't speak the language at all. It really reminded me of the... -
When you meet someone from overseas, here are 3 quick questions you can ask them to improve your cross-cultural awareness (and build a collaborative bridge with them!): 1) What do you like about {country} so... -
I recently went on a trip to the UK. It was my first time visiting England and Scotland and I didn't really know what to expect. If anything, I was skeptical as to whether I... -
Today I just wanted to share an awesome Ted Talk I came across. Ann Morgan thought she was "well read." But she looked at her bookshelf one day to realise she had only read US...
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When you travel overseas there is a decent amount of preparation to do. It can include booking flights, passports, visas, injections, packing, learning a bit of the language, researching the culture, knowing what electrical sockets... -
Is it just me, or is this year's "word of the year" NOT a word?!?! THIS is the 2015 WORD of the year ?!?! How do you even describe this to someone? Well, that's the... -
So in this whole debate on voluntourism, and some of the negative arguments against it, a question arises - is there a difference between "volunteering" and "voluntourism" in the first place? Isn't it just volunteering...
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Time for another fun post :-) What do you eat out of? How do you get takeaway? These might seem like the last questions you would ask in a cross-cultural situation, but I've noticed a... -
In this series I want to explore both the positive and the negative sides of voluntourism. Today is a focus on the positive - how voluntourism works to build bridges between cultures. Source: http://www.discprofiles4u.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/DiSC-Assessment-Test.jpg For...