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An All-English Humanities Dialogue: Beyond Language, How Do We Understand One Another?
Charging Life Dialogue #04｜What Does It Take to Understand Another Person?
We speak different languages and live entirely different lives — can we truly understand one another?
Linda has years of experience working in translation and language services.Michiel is a startup entrepreneur, helping startups create innovative products.
Their lives have followed vastly different paths:different nationalities, different cultural backgrounds, different languages.
Yet later in life, they came together, built a new family, and re-learned how to share life with another person.Language often lends itself to easy translation:one word mapped to another,one sentence converted into the next.
But what truly defies translation is rarely the words on the surface.It is our emotions, expectations, fears and life experiences —the parts we may struggle to articulate even to ourselves.
When you say “I’m fine”,does the other person truly grasp what you mean?
When you say “I understand”,do you really comprehend the story behind another person’s life?What does it really take to understand another person?
On September 5th, we will not talk about “how to communicate properly”.Instead, we will explore together:What do we actually need to doto truly see another human being
?📅 Sep 5｜Saturday 19:00–21:00
📍 Peter’s Tex-Mex 彼德西餐 [Tongzilin Branch]
Address: No. 12, East Tongzilin Rd. Wuhou District 武侯区桐梓林东路12号
🗣 English Discussion｜Small Group Dialogue
💰 Ticket: Early Bird ¥98 (before Sep 4), ¥128 from Sep 5.
Price includes one drink.
This time,let us set aside those “politely correct” answers,and talk about the parts of human connection that can never fully be translated.
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