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Hello, we are the International Trade 2 students from EPJ and we wanted to share our project with you, and all the things we’ve learned from it.
INTRODUCTION
We’ve been working with OSAO Vocational College, a school in Finland with students from International Business. We’ve done a project together about our cultures and the different forms of negotiation of each country. We had a videoconference with them twice and it was so interesting preparing it and talking with them.
WE MEET EACHOTHER
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Later on, we practiced the presentations twice, the first one in class and the second one at the assembly hall, like a simulation.
We learned about how to interact with Finnish people in a business environment and
about their languages, business culture and customs.
Especially how they organize their schedule, manners and clothes in different situations.
RESEARCH ON BUSINESS CULTURES
Once we attended the first video conference, we started to research information in several Finnish business sites about the business culture of this country. During our research we have noticed the cultural differences between our countries and how negotiations are conducted in both places.
We have learned things like the importance of etiquette and silence in negotiations, their conservative and close nature, which highly contrasts with the Mediterranean temperament and makes people from both nations find a point to understand each other and have a great business relationship.
When we collected all the information about Finnish business culture, we prepared a presentation which we later shared via video conference with OSAO students and teachers. Our presentation consisted of explaining the information searched the days before. All of us participated in the presentation and they confirmed us our topics were accurate.
FINAL DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS
At the end of the meeting, we had the opportunity to discuss with them some different points about their culture (fashion, saunas…). Some of our classmates asked them some questions.
They told us how they handled the covid situation in their school and it was very similar to Spain. It was funny when they told us that for them it was easier to maintain social distance, because they are always respecting each other's personal space.
They were also interested in some things related to Spanish culture. Mainly they thought that the covid situation affected business relationships since Spaniards highly value physical contact. Related to the last question, they also asked if lunch business meetings were common. They thought it was interesting since they don’t usually mix meetings with personal time.
It was a fruitful conversation for both parties, where we could dig deeper in both cultures and get a better understanding of how both cultures work despite our obvious differences.
Afterwards we analyzed the project and here are our conclusions. You can click on the pictures to see our results better.
Here are some tips for a more responsible
consumption on Black Friday. Will you help us to make it more sustainable?
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We study 1st year of International Trade, and we did little an infographic about the consecuences of Black Friday.
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Hi, we are 1st year International Trade students, we have made this infographic to raise awareness about the positive and negative aspects of black friday.
Finally, here are the recommendations of Khrystyna, Irene, Elizabeth and Álvaro.
TIPS ON HOW TO BE ECO FRIENDLY:
Our planet is in danger. Every year, we waste water, food, energy, and clothes. We can't afford to keep doing this to our planet, but, what can we do to reduce the waste of materials? Here are some ideas you can do at your school and at your house!
-In school:
Use public transport to go to class. (metro, bus)
Use old paper to take notes.
Separate the garbage into plastic, paper, glass and organic.
Copy and print on both sides of the paper.
Install led lights instead of normal lights to save energy.
-At your house
Take your own bags to the supermarket.
Save water by turning off faucets when you shower or brush your teeth.
Reuse everything you can like bottles, bags or food.
Turn-off the lights when you leave or when you don’t need it.
Install water-saving devices on faucets and toilets.
Use non toxic products
Exchange or donate clothes
Unplug electronics you're not using.
Buy second-hand clothes and furniture in Wallapop or Vinted.
TIPS TO IMPROVE YOUR ENGLISH
In this section of the blog we will recommend you tips in order to improve your english level. There are lots of things you can do to improve it but we will recommend you just a few ones:
Watching TV news, movies or series in english with subtitles in english.
Reading books and news in English
Some of our recommendations are Matilda, how to kill a mockingbird, and Harry Potter.
Listening to music or podcasts in english
Such us crime junkie, speak English podcast
Write a list of useful expressions and words on your phone, so that you will have it with yourself whenever you need to make use of them.
Change your phone settings to english so you will practice every time you use it
Improve your pronunciation with English tongue twisters. Try repeating them several times as fast as you are able. (You can record yourself trying and send it to the school’s instagram account)
Learning English expressions and sayings.
Write essays about different topics to improve your writing skills
Record your own voice speaking loudly in English and then listen to it in order to see your mistakes.
Pay attention to the foreigners accent and try to imitate it.
This week we have the recommendations of Mayka, Clarisa, María and Erica to try and be more mindful of our waste.
These are some tips that we give you to take care of the environment:
Save electricity: turn off the lights and avoid leaving the plugs connected..
Use public transport.
Replace plastic bags with clothes bags.
Take your own bags to the supermarket.
Products that are then reusable, use recyclable paper.
Separate the garbage( plastic, paper, waste, crystal).
Avoid shopping in fast fashion stores, reuse clothes or donate clothes that you no longer want or don't fit.
Buy in second hand shops for example Magpie Vintage, Humana, Flamingos Vintage Kilo, Cash Converters.
We invite you to collaborate with the planet for a better future♥️!!
This month of October, the first year students of Administration and Finance want to make some suggestions about different ways in which we can improve our English level and also recommendations about living a little more eco-friendly life.
Here we have the recommendations of Wendy, Valentina, Samantha and Maikol:
LEARN PRONUNCIATION AND VOCABULARY
STEPS:
Choose your favorite song or one that the lyrics are easy
Listen to the song and sing it with the lyrics. Try to learn the pronunciation.
When you already know the song from top to bottom, look for the translation and sing it again at the same time while you're looking at the translation.
Another tip, when you have an advanced English level, you can try to imitate other accents or learn the slang with different singers.
You can start with this singers:
Bruno Mars - Count On Me
Adele - Rolling in the Deep
Carly Rae Jepsen - Call Me Maybe
(The idea is to choose one song that lyrics are so so easy)
Ideas for an advance English level:
Eminem
Nicky Minaj
Avril Lavigne - Complicated
https://es.lyricstraining.com/
MOVIES AND SERIES
Watch the movie/serie in Spanish with subtitles in English
Rewatch them now both the audio and subtitles in English
Examples
Friends
Phineas and Ferb
Finding Nemo
Comedy romantic movies (the proposal, clueless, 50 first days, leap year…)
BOOKS
The majority of us knows all the basic tales so it's more easy to understand
*Write the vocabulary that you don't understand with the translation*
The three little pigs
The little prince
Pinocchio
Little red riding hood
I'm going to recommend this book:
Good luck (Alex Rovira - Fernando Trias) Good luck doesn’t just come your way—it’s up to you to create the conditions to bring yourself good luck.
LABEL YOUR HOUSE ITEMS:
you need to put the name of the item in english and if you want, you can add the translation in Spanish. You can also do it with another language if you want to improve both of them, for example: English and Italian or English and french.
These past few weeks, the students of the second year of Dietetics have been working into making some informational documents about how different nutrients work and why they are important for our bodies.
Here we are going to show you some examples of what we have done:
