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How to ‘Speak’ Chinese With Your Body

As far as a Western person visiting China is concerned, a basic knowledge of Chinese body language is necessary to ensure that you understand the gestures people make and do not end up insulting anyone.  Communication is not just about words. The way people move their heads, the gestures they make with their hands, how ...

Emma Lu

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How Simultaneous Interpretation Works

Interpretation is basically the translation of one language to another. Simultaneous interpretation is a process in which the interpreter has to translate what one party is saying into a language that is understood by another party at the same time they are speaking. The interpreter cannot pause for an extended period of time. At best, ...

Raven Montmorency

Simultaneous interpretation.

The Fascinating Human Speech Mechanism That Turns Air Into Speech

Language has been one of the most significant evolutions of human history. Without speech, communication between people would have been limited, preventing the progress that has occurred over the past thousands of years. But have you ever wondered how the human speech mechanism works? Speech and human beings There are two aspects to human speech. ...

Armin Auctor

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The 4 Skills You Will Need to Face the Coming AI Job Apocalypse

Having the right job skills will be of the utmost importance in the future. The implementation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in businesses is projected to take away numerous jobs in the future. According to AI expert Kai Fu Lee, almost 40 percent of the world’s jobs could be transferred from human beings to automated machines. ...

Armin Auctor

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The Amazing Way Plants Communicate With One Another

Although people generally carry the assumption that plants do not communicate, plants communicate with each other in amazing ways. Many studies in the past suggested that this is not true, but in a new study published in PLOS ONE, a team of researchers reaffirms what scientists have always suspected — that plants communicate with each ...

Jack Roberts

Life-Size Holograms Are Set to Revolutionize Video Conferencing

A Queen’s University researcher will soon unveil TeleHuman 2 — the world’s first truly holographic videoconferencing system. TeleHuman2 allows people in different locations to appear before one another in life-size 3D holograms— as if they were in the same room. True 3D holograms Roel Vertegaal, Professor of Human-Computer Interaction at the Queen’s University School of ...

Troy Oakes

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