After all, I just mentioned that we have many other ways to communicate with each other, and even ways to easily learn foreign languages. other countries. When I say there are gaps in communication, I don't mean that we can't understand the words being communicated to us. No, in reality, it is the meaning of these words that is lost in translation. You can use the Rosetta Stone to learn new languages ​​until the cows come home, but no matter how much time you spend studying a language, the meaning cannot be translated as easily as the words that contain it. Dean Barnlund expresses this very well in his essay “Communication in a Global Village”. “It is differences in meaning, much more than simple differences in vocabulary, that isolate cultures and lead them to consider each other as strange, even barbaric. » Even if humans are capable of “understanding each other,” their understanding goes no further than the words spoken. In intercultural communication, meaning tends to be easily lost in the