multilingual groups

[Elisabeth Tepper]

Hi Rachel:
I just want to add to Harrison's comment.  When people want to communicate
and they flow with the moment, magic occurs.  Just as an example, when I was
a child I had the opportunity to share with people from all over the world.
My father used to own a hotel in Barbados so we spent lots of time there
sharing with tourists.  One evening, we were about 20 people from different
countries. Venezuela, Italy, Sweden, England, USA, Brazil, sitting in a
circle and chatting.  After maybe an hour or two we realized we were having
fun and speaking with eachother, getting eachother's addresses (no email
then)... maybe half of us spoke English.
In communication, only 7% is in the words, the rest is in our expression,
our body language, our intention...
So, you can trust multilingual sessions will be productive.  Maybe the
reports won't be clear to all, but the conversation will be. and you can
always get translators!!!
Love
Elisabeth
Venezuela
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 11:17 PM, rachel pfeffer <rbpfeffer at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi OS Folks: I'm new to the listserv and to OS.  I'm wondering what your
> experiences are with groups that are multilingual?
> There are too many sessions to provide translation services....
>
>
> Thank you,
> Rachel
>
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> it." James Baldwin
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