Although Andrew's project was the only presentation I was able to see, I was extremely impressed with his delivery of the presentation in Bengali. He seemed able to speak with reasonable confidence and only minimal notes, entirely in his target language. The statistics that Andrew shared were very informative, and I liked the way that he gave statistics about the number of ICU beds, doctors, etc in America as well, for context. I also liked his approach of talking to different people that he had met in Bangladesh about their experiences with healthcare. I know, in India, that what is published can often diverge from what typically happens for working class Indians.
I also enjoyed reading over some of Jason Stickel's blog posts. I especially enjoyed what he had to say about politeness in Polish. The article he cited about the percent of language devoted to politeness in typical conversation as compared to English was really interesting to me. I think Hindi may actually have a lower percentage of language devoted to politeness, because as I noted in a previous culture post, Hindi incorporates formalities into the subject.
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