Benefits

Getting ready for success in the West

  • cross-culture

    Everything depends on understanding how, where and why the other culture is different. This is where you should start.

  • in the classroom

    Are you ready for what professors expect from students? Can you make an argument, ask questions, debate and discuss?

  • living in the West

    Make Western friends, enjoy daily life. What is Western polite? How to give gifts? Prevent being embarrassed.

  • thinking logically

    The most useful thing you will ever learn in a classroom. Thinking logically will help in class and in real life.

Course curriculum

    1. Success in Western Schools

    2. Why Take This Course

    3. Learning a New Culture

    4. Quiz - Introduction

    1. Three Invitations to Dinner Changed My Life

    2. What is Communication?

    3. Market Messages, Don't Sell Them

    4. Quiz - Problems and Solutions

    1. Plato Meets Confucius

    2. Rules of Communication

    3. High and Low Context Languages

    4. Quiz - Culture and Communication

    1. Making Mistakes, Showing Initiative and Losing Face

    2. Difference Between Chinese and Western Heros

    3. Professor and Teacher Expectations

    4. Quiz - How Westerners Think

    1. Preventing Dangerous Mistakes

    2. What Westerners and Chinese Say About Each Other

    3. Western and Modern are Different

    4. Quiz - Practical Knowledge

    1. PDF_Learning a New Culture

    2. PDF_What is Communication

    3. PDF_Plato Meets Confucius

    4. PDF_Rules of Communication

    5. PDF_Professor Expectations

    6. PDF_Difference Between Western and Chinese Heros

    7. PDF_High and Low Context Languages

    8. Making Mistakes, Showing Initiative and Losing Face

About this course

  • $250.00
  • 28 lessons
  • 4.5 hours of video content

Testimonials

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