Culture Shock! Bolivia - A Survival Guide to Customs and Etiquette

232 CultureShock! Bolivia English-speaking tongue: the rolled ‘rr’ sounds like a trill, and the j (or g when it comes before e o ...

Learning the Language 233 Cuánto cuesta...? How much does it cost...? Cuánto es...? How much is it? Dónde está...? Where is...? ...

234 CultureShock! Bolivia  Descriptive adjectives follow nouns instead of preceding them (lección difícil instead of ‘diffi cul ...

Learning the Language 235 words when they are perceived to be more expressive, and especially when their tone conveys a sense of ...

236 CultureShock! Bolivia Chiji (Aym, Que) Grass Cunasa sutimaja (Aym) What’s your name? Huaironco (Que) Originally ‘bumble bee, ...

Learning the Language 237 Language and Titles Next comes a more sensitive issue which I hope I shall handle fairly. When you mee ...

238 CultureShock! Bolivia intellectual affi nities, do both parties use the tú. However, many Bolivians of indigenous background ...

Learning the Language 239 other hand, your ability to communicate in ‘bad’ Spanish is greatly appreciated. The English language ...

‘Incorporating a new business in Bolivia... takes fi fty-nine days, entails fi fteen separate procedures, and costs twice as muc ...

Working in Bolivia 241 WORKING IN BOLIVIA REQUIRES an awareness of both the social and economic dynamics of business. This chapt ...

242 CultureShock! Bolivia The Art of Waiting In any serious business process, much time will be spent reading two-year-old magaz ...

Working in Bolivia 243 for whom I had to wait the longest. On the other hand, impatience rarely reaps rewards. Who Do You Know? ...

244 CultureShock! Bolivia Practical Business/Social Tips  Folks from the United States, and even Europeans, often use the word ...

Working in Bolivia 245  There is a keen awareness of social responsibility as it relates to profi table business. Anyone who ca ...

246 CultureShock! Bolivia colonies develop more slowly or less profoundly than other countries within the same category. It is p ...

Working in Bolivia 247 in virtual slave conditions, rubber workers extracted the once valuable sap from wild growing trees in wh ...

248 CultureShock! Bolivia mass market, production would have to expand beyond current capacity. So that the country does not lap ...

Working in Bolivia 249 These obstacles, in combination with the vestiges of dependence on a non-value-added export model, contin ...

250 CultureShock! Bolivia sectors, was capable of no function beyond serving as an intermediary for foreign exploitation. In the ...

Working in Bolivia 251 international business community in order to cushion the fi nancial blows that may sweep in from the nort ...