Lost in Translation: Bridge Any Cultural Gap in 30 Seconds

A concise slide deck about bridging hot‑culture and cold‑culture communication styles so teams can connect faster and work better together.

Inspired by "Foreign to Familiar" by Sarah A. Lanier

View the slides

• Online deck: https://dev-muhammad.github.io/cultural-bridge
• Outline as Markdown: slides.md

What the slides cover

• Why cultural lenses matter (Hot vs Cold)
• Recognizable phrases that create mismatched expectations
• A simple comparison framework you can remember
• Three practical tools you can use in any conversation
• A short, action‑focused close for the audience

Presenter & duration

• Presenter: Muhammad Abdugafarov
• Duration: ~5 minutes (lightning talk)

Attribution

• Draws on ideas from the book “Foreign to Familiar” by Sarah A. Lanier — https://www.foreigntofamiliar.com/

• All credit for the book and its ideas belongs to the author. Image used for educational purposes.