Tag: Verbal and Nonverbal Communication
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Learning Hindi-Urdu
My sophomore year I spontaneously decided to join the Intermediate Hindi-Urdu language course. In our intimate class of four students, one professor, and one Fulbright Language Teaching Assistant from India, our semester exploring the language was quite intimate. Our biweekly class sessions slowly guided us through the Nastaliq alphabet, the professor guiding us through specific…
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The Symbolism of a Song
The first day of my host stay in Malasaña, Madrid, Spain, in September 2022, my friend Claire and I awkwardly stood outside the apartment, 5 suitcases in hand. We pressed the doorbell for what we thought was the correct apartment, and a confused man angrily inquired who we were in Spanish, and then quickly hung…
