[Ailist] "Dialect coaching"

[john lodder]

Dear Amanda,
reading these posts I wonder what you are asking for? Is about linguistic
interpretation/understanding or is teh original question about cultural
interpretation/understanding between people/participants?
I moderate two workshops a year for marketeers from most European countries
with all their different cultural backgrounds. We use English as language
which is difficult for some people but we can always clarify things that are
not clearly understood. If necessary someone will explain the English in....
be it Russian, Italian, Swedish or whatever. Even during the Balkan war a
number of years ago we had no problems between participants.
>From this practice I believe therefor that AI is a very helpful intervention
in overcoming multicultural differences because everybody has the need and
wants to create and be inspired by working further on their own good/best
experiences and with those of others. Provided there is a common respect for
each other.
But, I am not sure if this is an answer to your question.
With appreciative greetings,
John


2008/2/4, Christopher J Chapman <ideahatching1 at btinternet.com>:
>
> Dear Amanda,
>
> You wrote:
> > virtually.  In a recent event, someone asked me if I knew of such a
> > thing as a "dialect coach" - someone who could work with people to
> > overcome some of the challenges of multi-cultural communication, in
> > terms of both "sending" and "receiving" communication.  I am unfamiliar
>
> Adding further to what Marilyn was describing previously, it seems that
> my first thoughts about what a "dialect coach" is or does are probably
> correct (I've not heard or seen the term dialect coach before).  So here
> is my guess:
>
> A "dialect coach" in my mind is a person who does BOTH translating or
> interpteting as needed AND ALSO guiding or leading AT THE SAME TIME.
> Any leading is of the servant-leadership style.  People who may need
> things translated first do not have all the infomation yet and so are
> more dependent on the giude/leader/coach for directing themselves.  For
> instance a Deaf person who may need input in the form of sign language,
> and does not understand written or spoken languages (yes there are quite
> a few of these left in the world), is going to be influenced by the
> signing interpreter whether this is supposed to happen or not.  So what
> that person decides to do or not do may be influenced by what gets
> signed to him/her first.  However, this Deaf person has as much right to
> be well informed in life as each and every other human in the world.  So
> that Deaf person would gain a lot of benefit from interacting with a
> coach so long as input and/or output are getting translated or converted.
>
> I suggest that a good example I know of is the national charity named
> Sense in the UK (Oops sorry!  "Charity" in the UK means a
> Non-Governmental Agency and not-for-profit organisation.  There, perhaps
> I am doing it myself - dialect coaching!)  You may really prefer to talk
> with Sense International, whose offices are also within Sense's in the
> UK (London).  You can find out more about Sense at www.sense.org.uk
> However there was a big proviso  - these people do not think they are
> coaches, rather they use the terms intervenors or Support Workers.  I
> have tried to introduce the idea of AI to the people running Sense, with
> I'm not sure what success (I'm on the inside not the outside).  However
> Sense is a very pro-active organisation that is letting friends, family,
> staff and the people themselves that it enables, have a say in how it
> runs itself.  It seems to be living its primary purpose, but perhaps one
> or more of you can confirm that?
>
> I hope that helps!  I might be able to provide much more specific detail
> off the list.
>
> Kind regards,
>
>
> Christopher
> --
>
> Christopher J Chapman
> near Cambridge, UK
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