Vocabulary (introduction+language part a)

To learn from scratch

• To learn from the beginning

• To learn something once again

• Not to learn

• To learn not from the beginning

Most English speaking cultures are low-context, which means they express a message in a clear and open way

• True

• False

People of high-context cultures say 'yes'...

• When they mean 'yes'

• But they actually mean 'no'

Put your foot in it

• Do something cool

• Get dirty

• Literally put your foot in something

• Say or do something tactless or embarrassing

To dust off one's language

• Forget the language

• To bring back the language to use again

• To neglect one's language

• To speak the language

A barrier to intercultural communication

• An obstacle to intercultural communication

• A promotion of intercultural communication

A language used for communication between groups of people who speak different languages

• Peripheral language

• A lingua franca

• Central language

• Supercentral language

Oral

• Written

• Spoken and written

• Spoken / not written

Languages of conversation and narration rather than reading and writing

• Peripheral

• Hypercentral

• Central

• Supercentral

The hypercentral language is

• Latin

• German

• French

• English