In the Balkans, the grandparents studied Russian, the adults speak German, and the kids are learning English. This is due to shifting foreign influences, first from the USSR, second from Germany, and third from the United States. Let’s ask three…
I was walking alone in Bosnia, in the countryside far from the capital city of Sarajevo. It was night, and I had a few kilometers of walking to reach the small village, a collection of ~100 unpainted houses on the…
Big cities are always full of people who speak some English, but in the smaller towns you will need to communicate without it. Here in Bosnia, many very kind and generous people speak only Bosnian. (and a bit of Russian…
I lost 2 years of business growth because I thought unskilled freelancers could negotiate and innovate with Chinese manufacturers. I interviewed and hired ~6 freelancers. I gave them template emails and instructions documents. I ‘delegated’ products for them to…