Cultural Differences Around the U.S.
Posted by Alelo | September 29, 2015

About twelve years ago, a friend yelled at me for what he saw as constant interruptions. "You never let me finish talking," he said. I was confused. When had I...

Top Five Tips for Working with an Interpreter
Posted by Alelo | April 17, 2015

If you ever have to work with people who don’t speak any of the same languages as you, you will probably have to use an interpreter to make yourself understood....

Rapport and Local Languages (as posted on DLNSEO Culture Ready blog)
Posted by Alelo | February 20, 2015

February 3, 2015 Alelo's Jena Barchas-Lichtenstein, Ph.D. has posted a blog entry on the Defense Language and National Security Education Office's (DLNSEO) "Culture Ready" web-site. The article discusses the positive...

Show Me You Know Kung Fu
Posted by Alelo | July 28, 2014

As Julie Dirksen notes in her book Design for How People Learn, the goal of good training design is “for learners to emerge from the learning experience with new or...