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Global communication strategies
Increasingly we are talking to people who are not from our national culture. People from different cultures often speak a different version of the language that we speak, and may have significantly different expectations of presentations and discussion.
The topic of cross-cultural communication is vast, so I’m going to give you some pointers for areas specifically to do with presentations and the subsequent interaction.
Language concerns
In common with many people in the world, I speak English – but really, we all speak many different types of English, for example: Spanish English, British English, Indian ...
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