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Read enough news about language and marketing and you’re bound to come across this claim fairly often: In a few years, the dominant language of the internet w...

Today’s diverse work environment requires knowledge and insights from participants with diverse backgrounds. When the global market is this competitive, orga...

You know what it takes to create the right brand for your company —the countless hours spent determining your positioning and defining your brand communicati...

Being an American abroad has its challenges.  One you might not expect is how Americans are perceived outside the US.  Sure, we have this cool cachet – we’re...

In a well-meaning opinion piece in James Madison University’s newspaper, The Breeze, sophomore Rachel Petty writes that after two months of living in Europe,...

You could end up with a diploma or certificate of fluency in a foreign language, only to visit a country where the language is spoken and realize that you’re...

It seems like most people would choose to be multilingual if they could.  After all, in addition to making things like travel or impressing a date easier, sp...

A negotiation involves two parties coming together to discuss the terms of a transaction or agreement and ideally, reaching a consensus.  To negotiate succes...

Around Thanksgiving, our thoughts veer more than usual towards food, family, and, well, giving thanks. The first two of these can be complicated issues for m...

When I was in elementary school, I got to take a six-week sign language course.  In that short time, we only memorized the alphabet and a few words – but eve...

It was a headline that immediately grabbed my attention: A Bilingual Brain is More Developed: Oui or No?. My interest went beyond my passion for everything l...

On the news here in France the other day, there was footage of President François Hollande visiting a small town, where he was greeted by whistles from the c...

In a recent article entitled “Ten workplace body language mistakes”, author Jacquelyn Smith claims that if you don’t follow certain body language rules, you’...

The first time I saw someone use Siri, I was amazed.  How cool is it to have a sort of virtual personal assistant who almost instantly fetches information ab...

To many of us, studying abroad for a semester or academic year seems like a pretty great idea.  There’s nothing like experiencing a language and culture firs...

There are many shocking things about the murder of Guatemalan immigrant Deisy Garcia and her two young daughters.  For one thing, the murders were allegedly ...

It’s easy to understand why people might use machine translations instead of human-generated ones. For one thing, a lot of translation software is free and e...

We live in a disposable world. The Germans, with their unique sense for the picturesque, call it “Wegwerfgesellschaft” – throwaway society. Not only do we th...

No matter how impressive it gets (can you believe smartphones even exist?), technology does have its limits.  Here are five things that I’m personally bummed...

Has a coworker ever said something that made you cringe?  I’m not sure what I was expecting when I read this list of phrases that business etiquette expert B...