Professor Mike Lopez of Cedarville College was in the listening audience. He knew he had found a vibrant alternative to relying on theoretical, jargon-heavy texts. Now he could reach students with tales of a traveler who relied on high school French, jokes, her guides, nonverbal communication, stuff her mother told her and the occasional flash of cultural insight to exchange information in dozens of languages.
The table of contents for the 10 units of this study guide appear below.
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- 1. Madagascar
- Translating language and culture
- 2. China
- Inventive ways around the language barrier
- 3. Borneo
- Guides offer windows into a culture
- 4. Kenya and Tanzania
- Warmth and laughter bridge cultures
- 5. Japan
- A finishing school for American expatriates
- 6. Polynesia
- Why language and culture survive
- 7. The Yucatan
- A birthplace of written communication
- 8. Burma
- Poverty, piety and playful English
- 9. Brazil
- A crescent called New Africa
- 10. Conclusions for cultural explorers
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- What must a person do to be a good cultural explorer? What steps can an English speaker take to be a better communicator?
- What themes does An Amateurıs Guide to the Planet present about communication?
