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--Reading the textbook and other related materials (assigned by the teacher or found/searched by you upon the teacher’s request)
--Regular attendance of the classes
--To help you become a better intercultural communicator. You will learn this partly by studying more about the process of intercultural communication and also about the factors that affect that process. However, even more important, you will develop new skills and thinking habits that will help you make sense of foreign cultures and their people, especially of things Westerners do which may seem strange, puzzling, or even bad.
strange. I decided to go to a park, and there I met several Chinese students. They started talking with me in Chinese, and I was happy to finally have a chance to practice speaking in Chinese with real Chinese people, and maybe also to make some Chinese friends. At first they asked me some pretty easy questions about how long I had been in China, what country I was from, and so forth. But then the questions started getting more complicated and harder for me to understand and answer; also, sometimes when I was struggling to answer a question the students would laugh. That kind of bothered me, and I felt like they were making fun of me. Then one of the students said something that I thought was a little weird. “Wo men zuo pengyou ba.” I mean, I did originally hope to make friends with them, but I didn’t expect someone I hardly knew to just say “Let’s be