We held our 7th meeting in the park at the campus. We walked around the park and talked about the World cup, which is currently a hot topic around the world. Furthermore, we addressed relevant sports in each of our home countries. Football was obviously the most popular sport in all four countries. Furthermore, apart from football, skiing is popular in Switzerland, and Swiss people learn skiing when they are small children. In addition, Switzerland also shows strong performance in ice hockey and tennis. In the case of Croatia, basketball, handball, waterpolo, tennis, and skiing are popular other than football. In addition, Croatia national handball team won 2 gold medals in Olympics. In the case of Germany, basketball, handball and ice hockey are popular. Germany has one of the most competitive handball leagues in the world. Motor sports are also one of the significant sports in Germany. Lastly, baseball and esports are getting more and more famous in Korea. Most students enjoy online games in Korea. A lot of interest in online games leads Korea to one of the strongest countries in esports around the globe.
Our group considered translating sentences as one of the main problems in high context team. This is because high context culture people are reluctant to directly express what the want and they tend to use ambiguous expression, which leads misunderstanding of other team members who are not familiar with high context culture. In addition, interpreting message of high context culture is not also easy for people from same high context culture. According to our Lee who is one of our group members, he is from Korea, which is high context culture. Reading air is the most important business skills in Korea. It indicates how important interpreting hidden meaning is in high context culture. Therefore, you should avoid direct expression to the other person in high context team because they can see you as rude. In addition, listening more carefully and checking your understanding is also helpful to prevent cultural misunderstanding in high context team. The rest of our group members have not experienced communication problems in the Netherlands until now, coming from neighboring low context countries, and they think that they would not experience communication problems in the Netherlands as most our group members have experience with staying with people from different cultures and they know how to communicate with foreigners. Furthermore, if there is a problem, they have confidence to overcome the barriers based on what we have learned through this class and our experience.
Language lesson 7
We learned expression
Croatian(Luka)
kako si= How are you?
Oprostite=Excuse me
koliko ovo košta?=How much is this?
Swiss German(Patrick)
Wie gohts dir=How are you?
Entschuldigung= Excuse me
Was choschtet das?=How much is this?
German(Nils)
Wie geht es dir?=How are you?
Verzeihung=Excuse me
Wieviel kostet das?=How much is this?
Korean(Lee)
어떻게 지내?=How are you?
실례합니다=Excuse me
이거 얼마인 가요?=How much is this?
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