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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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A reading pen for multilingual families
When Joie shared with me her project of creating a tool for multilingual families that would make reading to their children easier, I was hooked. For parents to record their own voices while reading their children’s books in all their languages was something I wished existed when my children were toddlers! Especially the possibility for […]
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A poem about March 2020
When I read Irene Vella’s poem Ma la primavera non sapeva nulla, that went viral on social media (and beyond), I couldn’t refrain myself from translating it into German. Although this poem has already been translated into several languages, I felt the urge to have a German version too, German and Italian being the two […]
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