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Callum: Hello and welcome to Talk about English and the tenth programme in our series on culture, Who on Earth are we? Today, with the help of Rebecca Fong, a teacher of inter-cultural communication at the University of the West of England, Marc Bee

Who on Earth are we 10

Callum: Hello and welcome to Talk about English and the tenth programme in our series on culture, Who on Earth are we? Today, with the help of Rebecca Fong, a teacher of inter-cultural communication at the University of the West of England, Marc Bee

Who on Earth are we 5

Callum:Hello. In recent programmes in this series, Who on Earth are we? Marc Beebys looked at some of the more obvious ways that cultures can be different from one another -the different ways we use language, or non-verbal communication, for example

Who on Earth are we 7

Callum: Hello and welcome to the eighth programme in our series Who on Earth are we. In the last programme Marc Beeby began an investigation into the differences between cultures where the individual is seen as central individualist cultures and tho

Who on Earth are we 8

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Who on Earth are we 4

Callum: Hello. Culture and communication is the topic of this programme from the Talk about English series, Who on Earth are we? Communication's done so naturally by all of us that we take it for granted and we don't think very much about what happe

Who on Earth are we 3

Callum: Hello today we have the third programme in our series on culture and inter- cultural communication: Who on Earth are we? In this programme Marc Beeby looks at language and culture. Heres Marc Marc: Hello. Today we begin our look at the build

Who on Earth are we 2

Callum: Hello and welcome to Talk about English. Today we have the second in our series on culture, Who on Earth are we? In this programme presenter Marc Beeby tries to answer the difficult question: what is culture? Heres Mark. Marc:Culture is a di

Who on Earth are we?

Who on Earth are we? 我们到底是谁？ Who on Earth are we? is a series about culture and how it affects us. It explores some of the major differences between cultures and looks at what happens when people from different cultures meet and communicate.

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