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What Kind Of Culture Shock Do English Teachers In Japan Experience?

June 10th, 2008 · No Comments

I read an interesting article today about culture shock for foreign English teachers working in Japan. The author was a little bit negative, but it was a very interesting article. So I thought I’d share some of what I learned with you! :)
The article said that basically for any westerner, moving all the way to [...]

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Culture Shock!

June 6th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Welcome to your new country. You’re come here for fun, excitement, change, challenge, and perhaps money. Will the locals speak your language? I’m not trying to scare you, but perhaps they won’t. Will some people there speak your language, oh most definitely. This is only one of the things that you may have to think [...]

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Understanding The Culture Of The Destination To Avoid Cultural Shock

June 3rd, 2008 · 1 Comment

Understanding culture of the destination helps you in a great way to avoid any sudden cultural shock. When visiting another country, you enter with a new cultural environment. The new environment may be completely different from your own culture. Cultural shock is the reaction one faces when confronted with a new cultural environment. Prior knowledge [...]

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Culture Shock in the WikiWikiWeb

May 21st, 2008 · No Comments

A wiki is a kind of website which has a concept of “open editing” that permits visitors to freely create, remove or else change and edit Web page content with the use of any available browser. It is an efficient and effective collaborative authoring tool that provides total ease of interaction and operation.
I was surfing [...]

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