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- Find a fixer to help you navigate new cultures
Bosses hoping to give useful feedback to workers from other cultures, or to lead foreign workforces effectively, need to learn the local rules of social behavior, writes Andy Molinsky. One way to do that is to find a guide or fixer who can help avoid cultural misunderstandings. "A mentor who appreciates your position as well as the expectations of the new culture can help you craft a new style that fits where you are and that feels authentic to you," Molinsky writes. Harvard Business Review online/HBR Blog Network
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- What to consider when presenting to multilingual audiences
Bob Pike writes about how he navigated language barriers during a presentation to a group that included English, French, Spanish and Japanese speakers. A key challenge, he writes, was that interpreters had difficulty standardizing translations across languages, especially as he began using more business jargon. To help ensure nothing was lost in translation, Pike restructured the audience into small groups. TrainingMag.com
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- New technology unlocks the origins of modern languages
Researchers have developed new software that can identify the origin of modern languages. For example, the computer program analyzed 637 Asian languages to generate the common language that would have been their linguistic ancestor. Linguists traditionally have carried out such work, but experts say the program will help speed the process. "It would take hundreds of lifetimes to pore over all those languages, cross-referencing all the different changes that happened across such an expanse of space -- and of time. But this is where computers shine," said Dan Klein, associate professor at the University of California, Berkeley. BBC
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