Cross-Cultural Communication skills is a relatively new term,
referring to the ability to recognize cultural differences and
similarities when dealing with someone from another culture and
ability to recognize features of own behavior which are affected by
culture.
Archive for October, 2004
Monday, October 25th, 2004
Yes, it seems indeed quite different than the rest of Canada. As you get off the plane you notice the cab drivers don’t wear turban. Nor do they speak English, or very little. Our driver actually was a huge black guy with broken English, but he took us to the right place; but he got upset for having to accept payment by credit card. Then further on the highway toward the city I realized the “official bilingualism” is mandatory only for the other provinces.
Posted in Vita | 5 Comments »
Tagged: Canada, multiculturalism, multilingual, Québec
Saturday, October 9th, 2004
One of the most common mistakes made by developers is what I’d call the “homonym trap”. Whether you agree or not with my previous post about the milder form of the linguistic determinism, this is a “built-in” trap in every language, so everybody is suspected to fall in.
What are the homonyms?
Homonyms are words which have […]
Posted in Lingua | 6 Comments »
Tagged: homonym, Hungarian, i18n, l10n, language, multilingual, PostNuke, wordpress
