Gestures, Meanings, and Culture

Gestures often cause miscommunication due to cultural differences among countries. This short video provides some insight into how these gestures that we are accustomed to can be taken the wrong way.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRQSRed58XM

Cultural Misunderstandings

Here is a video that Dr. B shared with us this week. It shows some wonderful examples of cultural misunderstandings that occurred during a business meeting.

Benefits of Bilingualism

I recently came across an article on BroadyESL on the benefits of bilingualism. I often wondered this before, however when I came across this it seemed to answer all of my questions. Some benefits include linguistic, cognitive, and linguistic benefits, individual benefits, as well as social benefits.

http://www.sc-languages-plus.info/2013/language-learning/the-benefits-of-bilingualism-06041163