CultureReadyNegotiating Across Cultures - Overview
This video provides an overview of negotiating across cultures and elements of building rapport, time, understanding your needs/objectives, time, and self-awareness.
Culture Matters: What Right Looks Like
This video looks at the idea that every soldier is a sensor, and how knowing local culture helps in understanding what is normal and what is not normal. This is a part of the Culture Matters video series.
Culture Matters: Languages
This video emphasizes that no matter how much training and experience you have, there is always more to learn when it comes to mastering a culture. This is a part of the Culture Matters video series.
CultureReady Basics is a web-based culture training tool developed to provide culture learning in a variety of global regions and languages. It is the perfect balance of culture and language training providing the knowledge and skills required for successful interactions.
Obama's Foreign Language Skills Ranked
Even learning a few words of a foreign language will go far in building rapport and understanding with foreign counterparts. In his speeches around the world, President Obama has tried many times to use words and phrases in foreign languages as a way to build understanding, rapport, and meaning with foreign audiences. See how the President did in foreign languages.
Special Topics Issue of the Journal for the Study of Culture and Language
In this initial special topics issue, Robert Greene Sands and Pieter DeVisser suggest, in their detailed look at the DoD’s language, regional expertise and culture (LREC) program, that there lacks any kind of sufficient assessment mechanism to provide organizations critical understanding of their LREC
capability, while failing to also provide the individual learner with a measure of performance useful to professional career development.
Linguistic Differences Around the U.S.
It’s easy to assume that cultures correspond to countries, but the reality is much more complex, and the same is true for languages. You probably know, for instance, that Spanish is spoken in dozens of countries around the world, and that it is spoken a bit differently in each. But what you may not realize is that cultural and linguistic differences occur on a much more local level as well.
Over 350 Languages are Spoken in the United States
The U.S. Census Bureau released a set of new tables detailing hundreds of languages that U.S. residents speak at home. These tables are among the most comprehensive data ever released from the Census Bureau on languages.
Ever Wonder What the Importance of Foreign Language Is, Even in the Heartland?
A local news report from Missouri highlights the importance of language training and fluency in today's increasingly globalized economy.
The Japanese-American U.S. Army Intelligence Unit that helped win WWII
The Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center in Monterey, California, traces its roots to the secret World War II U.S. Army intelligence unit comprised of Japanese-Americans – the Military Intelligence Service (MIS).
Then, as now, we needed to succeed militarily and also communicate with other cultures and nations.
The MIS was started in late 1941 as a unit to train Japanese-Americans (Nisei) to conduct translation and interrogation activities. MIS men came mostly from Hawaii and the West Coast.