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    Language Alter Ego: Does your personality change when you speak another language?
    Language Alter Ego: Does your personality change when you speak another language?
    Language Alter Ego: Does your personality change when you speak another language?
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    Language Alter Ego: Does your personality change when you speak another language?

    By Ekaterina Matveeva

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    The only book you will need to successfully work in intercultural environment and get to know your customers’ needs. Advice from polyglot, memory sportsman, TEDx speaker Ekaterina Matveeva—the founder of Amolingua (EuropeOnline)—among the TOP 20 start-ups of the world of 2015. Her tips will fill the gaps in your intercultural communication and boost your international business. The author has worked and studied in over 15 countries and organised world international events at the level of G20 and WUDC. She masters 8 languages and understands another dozen.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAnimedia Co.
    Release dateJun 21, 2017
    ISBN9788074992582
    Language Alter Ego: Does your personality change when you speak another language?

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      Language Alter Ego - Ekaterina Matveeva

      language-alter-ego-600

      Ekaterina Matveeva

      ______________________

      LANGUAGE

      Alter Ego

      Does your personality change when you speak another language?

      ______________________

      Amolingua

      Matveeva, Ekaterina: Language Alter Ego,

      1. vyd. Praha, Animedia Company, 2017

      ISBN 978-80-7499-258-2 (online: epub)

      Copyright © 2016 by Ekaterina Matveeva

      All rights reserved. This book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission of the publisher except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.

      ISBN-13: 978-1534841079

      ISBN-10: 1534841075

      Ekaterina Matveeva: Language Alter Ego. Does your personality change when you speak another language?

      Editor-in-chief: Dan Holloway

      Amolingua. London, 2016

      The only book you will need to successfully work in intercultural environment and get to know your customers’ needs. Advice from polyglot, memory sportsman, TEDx speaker Ekaterina Matveeva—the founder of Amolingua (EuropeOnline)—among the TOP 20 start-ups of the world of 2015. Her tips will fill the gaps in your intercultural communication and boost your international business. The author has worked and studied in over 15 countries and organised world international events at the level of G20 and WUDC. She masters 8 languages and understands another dozen.

      © Ekaterina Matveeva, 2016

      ISBN-13: 978-1534841079

      ISBN-10: 1534841075

      Contents

      Introduction

      Does Your Personality Change When You Speak Another Language?

      Observe and play

      Is multilingual equal to multicultural?

      Do rich vocabulary and correct syntax make us sound like natives?

      How is our small world reflected in our vast vocabulary?

      Why is an orange orange?

      Do we all knock on wood?

      Fit in or not fit in: network exclusion

      Creating new words is like playing Lego

      Do we link language to a person?

      Moods swings = switching languages ?

      Do languages have their own personalities?

      Speaking is like acting on the stage of the theatre World

      Your linguistic outfit

      Anxiety of overdoing

      Training your phonetics is like going to gym

      Intonation, imitation

      Dreaming of being another self

      Why can’t I write about philosophy in Italian?

      Different coding systems

      How much handwriting reveals about your personalities?

      How drawing helps to learn Mandarin

      Emotions in written language

      Your writing style reveals your personality

      My interpersonality clash and failure

      How can grammar influence our train of thoughts?

      Algebra of our grammar

      Do we change our decisions while thinking in different languages?

      What if I make a grammar mistake?

      Time and space

      He or she?

      How I Taught Myself to Become Multicultural

      How I became culturally Spanish

      Your personality may change—and it’s a good thing

      Remember to respect local traditions

      Secondary Linguistic Personality Phenomenon

      I wear different names like different hats

      What New Personality Will You Discover?

      Conclusion

      3D

      Dream

      Decide

      Do

      Introduction

      My dear friend, you are holding this book as perhaps you are a bilingual, or multilingual, or an aspiring polyglot. Or, perhaps, you are about to move to another country or close a big deal with a foreign business partner.

      Even if this book finds you in the state of the sad monolingual person I used to be a few years ago, I would like you to get ready for a life full of adventures and vivid colours. After reading this work from cover to cover you will be armed with everything you need to become successful in intercultural communication.

      As the Russian writer Anton Chekhov once said: How many languages you know—that many times you are a person.

      You will discover why culture is such an important aspect of language learning and how a language influences your mind and changes your perspective on the world, which is crucial if you are about to be translocated or expand your business.

      Intrigued?

      Let our journey begin!

      Does Your Personality Change When You Speak Another Language?

      Have you ever wondered if you have an alter ego? Perhaps, after watching Fight Club or Me, Myself, and Irene? Or, perhaps, if you are bilingual or multilingual since your childhood, have you ever felt some confusion or do you feel that you act the same regardless of the language you use?

      I started wondering about it when I took up my first foreign language more than 10 years ago. At that time I thought that people were the same, no matter which language they spoke. However, years later science

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