The forum that evening bore the forbidding title "Dance, Movement and Bodies: Forays into the Nonlinguistic and the Challenge of Languaging Experience," and it featured a choreographer, a psychiatrist who works with infants, a dance therapist, an animal behavior scientist and a philosopher.
Many of those items are pretty technical ("All of your translatable copy should be stored in strings") but some are more general — for example, he talks about the challenge of languages that require "grammatical differences for men and women".
Move abroad, adding the extra challenges of language, culture and bureaucracy to the mix, and it's enough to make most people go running to the nearest employer.
How will it navigate challenges of language and local contexts in an dizzyingly diverse country and build local networks?
One of the challenges of language learning is to acquire knowledge about how verbs and nouns in an unfamiliar language are inflected.
Imagine all these different cultures coming together with the challenges of language, equipment, travel, and weather problems.
Challenges of language and cultural differences compound the problems of the poorer Asia Americans, many of them older and without the working knowledge of English.
Let's be honest, giving birth in any country isn't easy and when you do with the extra challenges of language, different medical practices, and customs, it can feel really daunting.
For example, while data on educational attainment for AAPIs overall tend to indicate that it's higher than it is for other ethnic groups, this perpetuates a "model minority" myth, and we know that challenges of language access and socioeconomic status are a part of a more complex picture where groups like Southeast Asians and Pacific Islanders have dramatically lower levels of education.
Cross-cultural and international research are important components of public health research, but the challenges of language barriers and working with interpreters are often overlooked, particularly in the case of qualitative research.
