Brazilianisms
What would you add to this list of Brazilianisms? What would you say about regional differences in Brazil?
Survey Reveals Global Employees Not Prepared for Virtual Teamwork
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 84% of Global Employees Not Prepared for Today’s Work Requirements Study shows virtual work poses significant challenges to a majority of corporate employees NEW YORK, NY – According to a study conducted by RW3 CultureWizard, an intercultural communication training organization, 87% of white collar employees of multinational companies conduct at least part [...]
Bribery The Enabler, Not Cultural
One of the most interesting opinions to come out of the Wal-Mart bribery story in Mexico is one by Luis Miguel Gonzalez, editorial director at El Economista. “Wal-Mart, Indignation and Indifference” is the title, in translation, of an article where he writes frankly about the unabashed acceptance of bribes as a means of doing busines [...]
Immersion is Best Path to Fluency
This brief New York Times science update affirms that immersion enables the foreign language learner to build brain processing capacity at the level of a native speaker. Dr. Michael Ullman, a neuroscientist at Georgetown University Medical Center, said that a new study “…should help us understand how foreign-language learners can achieve nativelike processing with increased [...]
China’s Youth, A Lost Generation?
Read this New Yorker story on the confused, uncertain attitude youth in China have on life in a swiftly evolving period in their history. Which picture from the China project stays with you most? How did you meet? It is hard to pin down the one image that made the deepest impression on me—as many [...]
Untranslatable Expressions
Do you ever reflexively spring to use a word in a foreign language when you can’t think of anything adequate in your mother tongue? Well, that may not happen to many of us, but this post on the Matador Network relates 20 words that do not have counterparts in the English language. They can only [...]
CultureWizard Digest, Issue #48
A compendium of current news and headlines with commentary providing unique cultural insight into global affairs, business and daily life around the world. Interested in receiving the CultureWizard Digest every month? Click here to sign up. Check out CultureWizard Digest #48 here! IN THIS MONTH’S ISSUE: * Stability, Key Concern for China * A Mythic [...]
Stability, Key Concern for China
Given centuries of turmoil in China, today’s leaders will do everything in their power to preserve stability. Whenever I have doubts about a potential Chinese policy shift, I examine the options through the stability lens. It has worked like a charm. Stephen S. Roach tells us this in an article published on Project Syndicate. The [...]
How to Express Remorse in Japan
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqZcEwHBAk8
How many ways can you apologize in Japan? What is appropriate for various situations? Find out more about the delicate matter by watching this video!
How to Express Remorse in Japan
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqZcEwHBAk8
How many ways can you apologize in Japan? What is appropriate for various situations? Find out more about the delicate matter by watching this video!
