Author Archives: Robert Nelson

How Do You Celebrate Christmas?

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How do you celebrate Christmas? Expats around the globe will be spending the most celebrated holiday in the world in many different ways, whether you’re secular or religious.You may not know that the Christmas we celebrate today has only been around since the 1860s, a Victorian-era invention, although Christmas has been celebrated in many different ways for hundreds of years.On Read more » Read more

New Interactive Language Program Makes Learning Fun

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A new interactive language program created by entrepreneurs from Germany and Brazilmay make learning a local language a lot more fun for expats.Ingo Ehrle and José Freitas are the founders of a new Munich-based start-up company called XPLingo, which is developing a unique product to teach language skills by immersing users in an interactive adventure story.The two have come up Read more » Read more

An Adventurer Abroad in Aix-en-Provence

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MYIA’s Adventurers Abroad feature for December takes us to Aix-en-Provence, a sun-kissed city of about 150,000 people located 20 miles north of Marseilles, France.Our adventurer, Carol Artigues, has lived in Aix for nearly twenty years, but her journey to France began decades before in New York and then Atlanta.Carol tell us, “I knew from seventh grade, when I saw a movie Read more » Read more

Most Global Millennials Want to Be Entrepreneurs

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A new study conducted in 35 major world cities reveals that most global Millennials want to be entrepreneurs.More than three-fourths of young people between the ages of 18 and 25 say self-employment or founding a business appeals to them, in a study done by Accelerating Pathways, a research initiative led by The Economic Intelligence Unit, for the Citi Foundation.Interest in Read more » Read more

Iceland Is the Best Place in the World to Be a Woman

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Iceland is the best place in the world to be a woman, according to a new study by the Geneva, Switzerland-based World Economic Forum (WEF).The small Nordic island-nation tops 144 other countries on the WEF’s Global Gender Gap Index, which has benchmarked gender equality since 2006. The Index measures national gender gaps on economic, political, education and health criteria. The Read more » Read more

Entrepreneurs Abroad in Munich, Germany

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A meeting in Munich last year brought together the perfect combination of business skills, creativity and computer savvy required to start a successful entrepreneurial venture.Our entrepreneurs abroad in Munich, Germany are Ingo Ehrle and José Freitas, founders of a new start-up company called XPLingo. They are developing a unique product to teach language skills by immersing users in an interactive adventure Read more » Read more
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