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Finger-counting across cultures
Finger-counting differs across cultures and can reveal your base language.
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Good reads for interculturalists
If you are looking for good reads for intercultural trainers, cross-cultural trainers or anyone who wants to support internationals, understand cultures and “bridge the gap”, here are a few of the readings I did during my training as Intercultural Communication Trainer. Brinkmann, Ursula and Oscar van Weerdenburg, Intercultural Readiness. Four competences for working across cultures, […]
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The importance of gestures in the language development of babies and infants
Babies start communicating with us from day one. The sounds they utter will become increasable intelligible: from cooing, to babbling, to monosyllable, bi-syllables up to sentences. The journey of language development in babies and infants is quick and has many facets. What many parents forget to consider is that gestures play an important role in […]
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How to wear face masks
No matter in what country you are experiencing COVID19, it seems that at some point you’ll have to wear a face mask. Regulations about when and what face mask to wear differ considerably across the globe, which does not contribute to a general understanding of this whole situation. I noticed that although every country seems […]
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