Introducing of our group

. My name is Younghoon Park from South Korea, and I am 27. I speak Korean and English at the moment, but I am willing to learn Dutch since I am going to study at Netherlands for a while, so in order to familiarize more to this country, I feel the need to know more about Dutch.

My hobby is quite usual like most of other guys. I like playing sports, mostly football to be honest and additionally tennis. I’ve learned tennis 16 years ago and I quite enjoyed it, but I haven’t played for a long time so I might become rusty. Moreover, little bit of bike riding and listening to music.

. My name is Oleksandr. I am 18 years old, and I am from Ukraine. I can speak 3 languages - Ukrainian, Russian and English. I enjoy doing different kind of sports. My favorites are martial arts, almost all of them, but I also like to play football sometimes.

. My name is Riccardo Villa, I`m 19 years old and I`m from Italy. I lived In Italy until I was 14 then I moved to Dubai with my family following my dad`s career. I stayed in Dubai for approximately 5 years, I returned to Italy last summer after graduating in Dubai in May. I have Graduated accomplishing the IB diploma which had allowed me to join in this current university. I`m able to speak 2 fluent languages which are Italian and English, although I can understand a bit of Spanish thanks to the similarity between Spanish and Italian and I can also understand French as I studied it in my previous school. My hobbies are mostly related to sports, I love playing and watching football, it’s always been one of my biggest passions, but I also really enjoy going to the gym as it helps me realize all my stress and pressure accumulated. Recently I also got interested in the investment’s world, therefore I started reading a lot of article and books regarding this topic.

My name is Jan Franz. I am born and raised in Trier, Germany it´s located in southwest of Germany. I´m 22 years old and can speak English and German fluently, because of my half polish family I´ll manage to understand a bit polish as well.  Since I´m able to speak German, it is easy for me to understand and learn the Dutch language. My favourite sport is Football I´ve played for over ten years in a club, but I also enjoy many other sports like basketball, volleyball, or tennis.

 

Why study intercultural communication?

. Considering that the world of sport is constantly evolving world widely, being able to understand and apply what leant during the intercultural communication classes can possibly be an immense factor in order to be a game changer in the industry of sports. People all over the world have different attitudes to life and communication processes. So, when those people with different cultural backgrounds start working or studying together effective intercultural interaction is a guarantee of a good relationship and stable development. intercultural Communication is a very important subject to study because it will tell us how to communicate effectively with people from different cultures and avoid triggers that lead to intercultural misunderstandings.

Moreover, studying intercultural communication can ease a tension between people because you will adjust the way you see things. If you understand and just accept other’s cultural differences, you wouldn’t have to think only from your cultural perspective. Embracing everyone’s own culture and absorbing the best out of it, will even make a bigger synergy than a group with only one same culture because you will have more creative ideas coming out from different backgrounds and experiences.