Contributing to meetings when you aren’t the most fluent speaker
Guess what? You don’t have to be the best speaker in the room to make a real difference in meetings. Every voice matters (including yours) International meetings work best when different people bring different perspectives. A colleague who has worked in a different market, managed a different type of team, or simply thought about the…
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The 70% Rule: Why Understanding Everything Is Not the Goal
You are watching your favourite series in English, or maybe you are on a bus with your headphones in listening to a podcast, and the language you have been studying for months is flowing around you. You catch words, you lose words. For a second, whole sentences make perfect sense, and then a phrase slips…
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Same Wisdom, Different Words: 20 Italian Proverbs and Their English Equivalents
Proverbs are one of the hardest things to translate, not because the ideas are foreign, but because the images are. A literal rendering almost never works, and guessing the English equivalent in the middle of a conversation is the kind of thing that can leave you stranded*. This is a guide to 20 proverbs you…
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