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Intercultural communication

“Made in Germany” at risk? Volkswagen and the German trademark

Do clouds over VW equal clouds over Germany? The Volkswagen (VW) emissions scandal has received significant media coverage in and outside of Germany. Besides accounts of the developments that led…
Language and globalization

Thinking language with chocolate

  Easter chocolates in the supermarket (Image credit: Wikimedia) I’ve been thinking a lot about chocolate lately. Maybe because it is Easter and supermarkets in my part of the world…
Language and migration

Racism without racists

In the past couple of years, I have been a passenger in Sydney taxis driven, inter alia, by an agricultural engineer from India, a civil engineer from Somalia, a surgeon…
Intercultural communication
Temples helping heritage language maintenance in Australia
English as a global language
A gulf by any other name
Language learning
Hottest English teaching method
Intercultural communication
“We not ship to Russia”
English as a global language
Happy birthday, UAE!
English as a global language
British Royal Wedding in Iran