A French-American perspective on politics, culture, current events, religion, languages, and education
Monday, May 15, 2006
How we fail to communicate...
... and don't know we do.
Last Feb. J2T had a post on a study showing our inability to 'read' the tone of email messages. The CSM has an article on this and here's the visual explanation of what we said. Well, this is just to make things a bit easier to understand. ;-)
Somewhere beneath all the inane clichés that politicians and the media bandy about, there lies a true Franco-American relationship that stems from a deep appreciation and fascination with each other's language, culture and society. This is where we live, below the radar, exploring the mundane, finding pleasure in the details, and sharing our passion for another culture with our students. We are educators, teaching English in Paris and French in Boston. Trained and training at the Sorbonne and Harvard, respectively, we choose here to let our café conversation spill out onto the sidewalk. Others should feel free to eavesdrop or join the conversation through comments.
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