By Valerie Sartor Even if a foreigner is fluent in Chinese, or if a Chinese is fluent in English, miscommunication and misunderstandings still are common. In our global age, miscommunication occurs everywhere, all the time, among people of dissimilar... ...full story at Biz Cult
from Biz Cult on Fri, Jan 16 2009
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