‘absolutely intercultural!’
I love this illustration for the latest edition of Absolutely Intercultural mainly because I think it cannot possibly be authentic. My colleague in Germany, Laurent Borgmann has been examining email culture and there is lots of good advice for making sure that your emails are read and acted upon. The point is made that different cultures of accepted practice exist in different companies and that you don't have to cross national boundaries to meet this phenomenon.
This edition also looks at teacher and student exchanges and warns that you don't necessarily learn what you think you 're going to learn. You may have your preconceptions confounded for example about the conditions you will meet in Poland and the content of a business course may take second place to the leaps and bounds you will make in your English when that is the only common language in the mixed student group.
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Tags: absolutelyintercultural, email, Borgmann
