Dr. Christiane Siebert, DACM, CT

I am a native speaker of German and began learning English as a teenager. I’ve had to work quite hard over the 3+ decades since I moved to New York to really get into the nitty-gritty of idiomatic American English. At this point, most local native speakers wouldn’t be able [...]

Have you found yourself in a situation where you expressed your thoughts clearly in a foreign language – or at least you thought you did – only to realize that your listener completely misunderstood your message? Languages are complex human communication systems, highly specific to cultural environment and technical context. [...]