Introduction by Gardenia Hung, M.A., B.A.

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008

Good Morning!  Pax et Bonum.  My name is Gardenia C. Hung.  I am a returning writer for the Tower of Babel since 1998.  On the tenth anniversary, in 2008, I have been invited to contribute as an author to the Babel Blog and continue to help building the Tower of Babel Online Journal Multilingual and [...]

Cross-Cultural Perception of the World Through Language Communication

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008

“Shih” is an insightful, elegant kind of knowledge from Chinese into American English
–Howard Rheingold, They Have a Word for It
This article fosters an awareness of cross-cultural issues inherent in language communication through our perception of the world, non-verbally or verbally whenever we speak, listen, read, and write. Language communication offers cross-cultural insights and [...]