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		<title>Interview Martha &#8211; A Polish Girl in the UK</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Nov 2010 17:17:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hello! Q) What is your name? I am Barbara T. Q) How old are you? I am 24 years old. Q) What is your home country? I was born in Poland, I spent my childhood there. Q) Where do you currently live? I live in the United Kingdoms. Q) What field do you study? I [...]
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		<title>How to deal with Culture Shock</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Nov 2010 16:48:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Francois K.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to our favorite but not officially-recognized-as-a-reliable-source Wikipedia, culture shock refers to “the anxiety and feelings (of surprise, disorientation, uncertainty, confusion, etc.) felt when people have to operate within a different and unknown culture such as one may encounter in a foreign country.” Indeed, some people may feel&#8230; let&#8217;s say uncomfortable after having spent some [...]
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		<title>The hardest step: Dare to speak in a foreign language</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Oct 2010 00:07:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Francois K.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here, I could tell you about my own experience. I have recently given classes, as a French teacher. The classes took place in a restaurant owned by a French guy, in a very friendly atmosphere, and were followed by about 20 persons. One of the thing I have noticed during those classes is that the [...]
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		<title>Interview with a study abroad student from Bosnia Herzegovina</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 22:19:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexandre Q.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is your name and how old are you? Haris LIBIC, 20 years old. What is your home country? Bosnia Herzegovina Where do you currently live? I currently live in Irvine, CA What field do you study? I am a student at University of California Irvine (UCI), where I am currently doing a Bachelor in [...]
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		<title>What is Culture?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2010 02:26:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marie M.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to Gary Wederspahn, culture is the shared set of assumptions, values, and beliefs of a group of people by which they organize their common life. In our world we can distinguish lot of cultures because of the number of countries for example, but also we can see some scales in these ‘country cultures’. When [...]
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		<title>Differences Between Living in Spain and France</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 17:51:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maria P.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two European countries with a common border. How different can they be? After having lived many years in both, even though the cultural differences are not shocking, there are some disparities in the daily life. I have always lived in the Spanish Basque Country, although at the age of sixteen I lived for 2 years in [...]
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		<title>Studying abroad with 13, should it be allowed?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 19:02:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maria P.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kathleen Megan wrote an article in The Hartford Courant this month concerning a case of discrimination in the University of Connecticut. Colin Carlson, a 13 year old prodigy was denied to attend an African ecology course involving a summer field study in South Africa. Even after his mother offered the university to go with him [...]
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		<title>Why study a foreign language?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 17:01:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marie M.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What does ‘study a foreign language’ mean? Nowadays, more and more people speak at least two languages; it is not an ephemeral trend but an essential way in our changing world. Everything (from people to information) is closer and closer connected thanks to Internet but also thanks to our ability to move and our ever [...]
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		<title>Differences between living in Spain and the U.S.A</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2010 19:02:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maria P.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a Spanish citizen that has spent 10 months living in the USA, I am going to develop the similarities and differences of life in Spain and in the United States. First of all, Spain has a national official language Spanish, while the United States does not have any official language even though the most [...]
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		<title>ECUADORIAN CUSTOMS AND MANNERS</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 01:59:46 +0000</pubDate>
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