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Beijing Winter Olympics officially kick off

When was the last time you made a joke? Would it be funny in other languages? What makes sense of humour specific to a culture? So many questions. Let's figure it out.

The Age of Humans

Episode 2: Sense of Humour

Music, food, customs, traditions, dance, language, and many more form a culture. The list can keep going, but new cultures can be overwhelming. That's why the cultural shocks. So? What do we do with all the information?

Episode 2: How to Process the Cultural Input

Learning how to communicate is a life-long process. Learning a language can take years, especially when you haven't done it before. But what about learning a culture? Tom is sharing some tips on how to do it.

Episode 2: A Guide into Learning Someone's Culture 

Intercultural communication. It sounds normal, right? But the relationship between culture and communication is a bit unclear for some. What was first? The egg or the chicken? The culture or the communication?

Episode 2: Culture and Communication - Independent or Interdependent

OK, we talk about communication between different cultures, but did you know that emotion can be a determinant factor in distinguishing them? Some people are more affective, others rather neutral. And we bet you might have noticed that in your everyday interactions. But why?

Episode 2: Affective vs Neutral Cultures 

In our second episode, we discuss the communication between different cultures. A second way of categorising cultures is based on how they see the time. In this instance, we talk about monochronic and polychronic cultures.

Episode 2: Monochronic and Polychronic Cultures

In our second episode, we discuss the communication between different cultures. One way of distinguishing them is based on how specific the context is. But what do "high" and "low" really mean?

Episode 2: High and Low Context Cultures

Can learning a language give you an alternative perspective on life? We discuss this with our expert in linguistic relativity Guillaume Thierry.