Re:When a Chinese PhD Student Meets a German Supervisor [pdf]
by chillacy on Sunday October 23, 2016 @03:13AM
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> Then you add on the language barrier, and it's no wonder that they may appear unsociable
I went to poland for only a week for a foreign language meetup, and I'm very surprised at how much more introverted I became, with nobody to speak english to. It's definitely harder to socialize in a second language.
Re:When a Chinese PhD Student Meets a German Supervisor [pdf]
by zhemao on Monday October 24, 2016 @04:24PM
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Salvatore Sanfillipo. the author of Redis, has a very good post about how he is more reserved when speaking in English as opposed to his native Italian.
I went to poland for only a week for a foreign language meetup, and I'm very surprised at how much more introverted I became, with nobody to speak english to. It's definitely harder to socialize in a second language.