Living in the USA - Softcover

Lanier, Alison R.; Gay, Charles William

3.5

28 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1877864404 ISBN 13: 9781877864407

Publisher: Intercultural Press, 2000

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This is a guide for corporations, intercultural training firms, international organizations and governmental and non-governmental agencies. New to this edition are sections on housing agreements and leases, college and university education, investment in the US, buying second-hand and relationships. Topics covered include first impressions, customary behaviour patterns and dominant attitudes, business practices and the workplace environment, social manners and courtesies, transportation, money management, medical care, food and dining customs, shopping, communications, and safety and emergencies. For long-term visitors, there are chapters on housing, care of young children, schools, teenage life, household help, religion, friendships and leisure-time activities.

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Review:

Comprehensive in its detail and attentive to the swirls of current events and attitudes, Living in the U.S.A. makes U.S. practices, habits and lifestyles understandable and navigable, even when uncomfortable for today’s newcomers. It is local knowledge at its most digestible. (Dr. George F. Simons, George Simons International)

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Most popular guide to living in the U.S. , updated
Now in its fifth edition, this book offers practical, "how-to" advice on settling in and finding one's way about in the United States, along with interpretations of American lifestyles that help make the foreigner's first encounters easier and more comprehensible.

"Living in the U.S.A." is widely used in ESL classrooms and by corporations, as well as by international organizations and other governmental and nongovernmental agencies. Sprinkled with American idioms, this book is a delightful way to both teach American English and orient the newcomer to life in the U.S.

From Terrence P. Hannigan in the International Journal of Intercultural Relations: "...a fine guide for someone contemplating a visit to the U.S.A. or for someone who has recently arrived."

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