The last few weeks have been hectic, as I was working on the 4th annual Wikimedia conference, Wikimania. It happened this year in Egypt, in Alexandria. And it took all of my time for the past two months. So although I gave a glimpse of my Egyptian travels, I never got to write about the most […]
Tag - understanding people
Monday, May 19 2008
Addressing an International Audience
Monday, May 19 2008. communication(s)
Last Friday, I attended the Going Solo conference in Lausanne, a one-day conference for freelancers. I was very impressed with the quality of the speakers and of course, I tried and observed the cultural bias/questions/issues that came up. Here is a little rundown of the things I noticed. I consider […]
Tuesday, April 22 2008
Truly multilingual
Tuesday, April 22 2008. the other words
Our neighbours are what one would call a really truly multilingual family. The mother is Swedish, the father is Italian. Together they speak English. The kids speak Swedish with their mother, Italian with their father. They lived the first years of their life in Switzerland, which means the children […]
Thursday, March 27 2008
The language before the language
Thursday, March 27 2008. communication(s)
I am still reading the book about bilingualism and before I write a more detailled review about it, I wanted to share my last experiences in terms of communication and languages. As you may know, or not, we had a baby. Emma was born a few weeks ago and I must say that the greatest challenge her […]
Thursday, December 20 2007
The Credit Card Hell
Thursday, December 20 2007. everyday life
I have already tackled one of the aspects that sometimes makes me think that Germany is a backwards country. I mean, don't get me wrong, it's an OK backwards country, but there are a few things that just drive me nuts. One of those is the fact that having a credit card in Germany is like owning a […]
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