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Unseasonable

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It's very warm in Berlin Europe this winter 2015

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One Man's Trash

High Culture

Time Limit

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Going back home is great until you're back for too long. Then you and your parents get tired of it quick

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Ideal Critic

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Kids will be honest with you when adults won't

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Not Incorrect

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Yes doesn't always mean correct in English

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Someone Somewhere Sometime

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Names for placeholders around the world: Joe Average, Nowheresville, Middle of Nowhere, When Pigs Fly, Till the Cows Come Home

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Preferred Complexion

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Westerners go to the beach to get tan. Asians try to stay as white as humanly possible

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The Harshest Holiday

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In South Korea, women give men gifts on Valentine's day. Men give women gifts on White Day. Then on Black Day, single people eat black noodles and feel sad

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¿Confused Face?

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Spanish upside-down question marks are like the confused face you make before asking a question

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Ubiquitous Shape

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Every culture has a circle bread flatbread pancake

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Pointless Hoops

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It's impossibly difficult to get a good apartment in Berlin

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Backup Nationality

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If Trump Hillary becomes president I'm moving to Canada. Actually, that'll just make things worse.

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Speaking Terms, Part 2

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If you speak Thai language to Thai people, they think it's adorable and polite. If you speak Korean to Koreans, they think Korean is useless and you should learn a more useful language. If you speak a little Chinese Mandarin to Chinese people, they think you're completely fluent.

If you want the European perspective, check out Part 1 of this comic!

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Colorful Assortment


Service Extremes

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If you speak Thai language to Thai people, they think it's adorable and polite. If you speak Korean to Koreans, they think Korean is useless and you should learn a more useful language. If you speak a little Chinese Mandarin to Chinese people, they think you're completely fluent.

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Stranger Than Fiction 2

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Thailand is crazy. Inflatable crocodiles scare monkeys away from parking lots

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Accent Betrayal

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Dutch people coming home from Germany speaking Dutch in slight German accent get confused for Germans

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NEW: Comic Suggestion Box!

This week's strip was written by Jonathan Tolksdorf, an enterprising Itchy Feet fan who had an idea for a comic, sketched out a very rough version, and sent it to me. Not only do I think he captured the Itchy Feet humor perfectly, he also did it from the perspective of another culture, something I could never achieve. So I redrew it and featured it as the comic you see above.

Which made me think - all you readers have your own cultural perspectives, your own funny troubles learning languages and challenges traveling abroad, experiences I would never be able to communicate because I'm just one person. What about the Japanese perspective? Or the Bolivian perspective? Or the half Native American, half Jewish African perspective? YOU tell ME!

http://www.itchyfeetcomic.com/p/suggestion-box.html#.Vw5ugZN95E4


There are a few ground rules, but you'll learn all that on the Suggestion Box page.

Can't wait to see what you come up with!


Intersection Woes

Fluency Signal

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You know you're fluent in a foreign language when the locals stop complimenting you giving you compliments

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