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When it is your first time to visit a particular country, you might not find the places or things that you want to find. Worse, if you started walking around, you might have forgotten your way back to your hotel. Though you have electronic devices…
That men and women communicate differently is a widely accepted idea. There are notable differences in the way males and females communicate. In the present social setup, there is a need to be mindful of proper and appropriate communication. It is not enough to simply…
In this competitive world, being smart is one of the guaranteed ways to thrive and gain success amid obstacles and challenges. Indeed, for someone to attain his goals in life, he has to know how to deal with people, situations and life in general. Smart…
Imagine the world without colors. Imagine yourself in a setting where everything is dull and with no tint. Even your skin is either black or white and so with your clothes, house, furnishings and even plants, trees and animals. Such impossibility, don’t you think? Beautiful…
In the sign language interpreting world there is an ongoing uproar, due to the obvious inability of the sign language interpreter used when U.S. President Barack Obama was speaking during the memorial for South Africa’s former President Nelson Mandela. According to the sign language community…
Because of the rise in new terms and phrases , some organizations in some countries attempt, yes – attempt, to shield their languages and keep them as pure as possible. Computerese invades the Greek language In Greece for instance, more than a decade ago, a…
Before we can use a language, we need to know what the words mean and how they are formed into sentences that express our thoughts and feelings. As children we learn how to use our mother tongue as we hear it used and spoken around…
People communicate with each other not just with words and gestures. There is one more aspect of interpersonal communication that people often miss. We may not be aware of this, but the way we utilize space plays an important role in how we communicate with…
Spanish. One of the romance languages. A language spoken by roughly 406 million native speakers; with 60 million people speaking it as their second language and around 20 million more studying it as a foreign language. Spanish is the second most spoken language in the…
Everyone knows that as a world organization, nothing symbolizes unity, cooperation and understanding more than the United Nations. Better known as the UN, the United Nations is an international organization founded in 1945, at the heels of the Second World War. The UN was intended to…
Did you know that the word “tycoon” is from the Japanese word, “taikun?” This term was used by foreigners to mean the shogun, a leader in ancient Japan who worked hard to attain power and position rather than inherit it. English words that are borrowed…
