here are my opinions:

i^&I;Pp;F T            first, you should know where he is from,because people from different countries have different customs.be care of his country's toboo,or sth else. then, you just can talk about many things,such as, your company,your liveing city,scenic spots,and chinese trditional food,etc.

i am newbie in the business world. but i think it has too much disgusting items in our home market, like feast, smoking when you talk with your customers(i dont kown if other boss are like that, i saw a few do like that) so, for the business credit, let us forget about it.
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we influence each other indeed. one of my acquitance from ethiopia think that anyone can not kill him before God take his life away. that is their nation attitude to the life. and i think it is not wrong,nevertheless.

Reply #16 pingan's post

Please go ahead,I want to learn your idea.:)

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i am very nervous when i talk to the foreign client
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The two foreigners I met before got interested in Chinese characters and expressions, it seemed that they wanted to adapt to the new place, I taught them how to order food in Chinese restaurants. Sometimes I told them something about Chinese traditional festival...
J4bn+b4R8A The most important thing is that you should know how to express yourself in English...if you can, just go ahead, talk everything you want or your customers want...

It's so abroad,maybe we can choose some idiographic topics.

I think we can talk about everything, especially some interesting things.

in my opinion,one foreigner had better look for a chinese freind to talk about this.

From my experience, the foreigner feel very lonely and boring when he/she comes to China. So we'd better accompany them more time, and show them around some interesting place.

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Try to collect some information of your customer's such as hobbies, favoriate food ..and so on.`3RmZ4m`'H2g j.c
But we should keep our self-esteem.

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I agree with Andrew, the details are important, whatever topic you share with your customer, the main point is all of you enjoy it. Like some of foreign they don't know chinese food, they even scare, and cann't find good food to eat when they have trip to china. Like the muslin, we can share with them the chinese culture, because we have some common traditional things, we have the similar lunar calendar. Like the people from USA, they not scare for anything, and curious, you can share with them about some chinese special food, like eat snake, eat dog, etc. Some customer like sports, then you can talk with them about MBA.

i am the fresher people in this forum,and have learned much from it,thank you very much!
ebDFg F_$wA when i was in college,i had communicated with the foreigners,i only thought that the foreigners were pure，they were not so complex as our chinese,i don't kown if it is true,now  i have worked for almost 2 years,i contact with a few  other foreigners from different countrys,not so proundly,and they give me different impressions,maybe for the business reasons

if we are talking about business ,we need focus the toopic:product.quality,price,the payment terms,delivery and so on.we don't consider other things.

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if he like to talk something about quality products ,delivery time,price,payment term.you should tell him detail.
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we can introduce to them one by one.or we can go out for a travel with them for some days.
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May be you will be a chance to be success.

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I tell everybody a story. I have very deeply expression for one day. The sun is sunshin, tempreture is very hot. 4cs Iran customer visit our factory. They wear formal dress with tie. What a pity  ... [/quote]
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Knowledge is really the power in front of communication, especially talk with foreigners.

passed, have some opinions also

I think you'd better master our own culture,because the customer will let u introduce our culture first. The other thing is to know the culture of your customers,then u can discuss them with ur customers.

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Get connection with clients and also don't make them feel be bothered.
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The little word before their festivals make them have the deep impression about you. We do not only the products, but also the relation!

come on!buddy!

When in Rome,do as the romans do

hi

so many contradictions regarding chinese business and a lot of young people r interested on milking money by agent works or commission basis but they will find it really hard when they enter there its a drug if u go there difficult to come out and difficult even to carry on that habit so take care a lot of money here doubtlessly but not easier to milk thank you

how wonderful it is ! AKP;\!P*EE}JP
i'll learn a great deal from it.

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Rv9R6lNO$\NL I always think that We Chinese understand America and EU more than themselves. Verse visa.
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But I always think that  foreigners   understand China  more than ourselves, why? because we don't care  our own  culture .

internation business

The internation trading business not just a for business only, but there is a good chance for us to know more about the information of our own country, oversea country, and difference parts of curltrue......it's so interesting of a process for humen being for study !!! we would take care of every second of the time ~~~~

have looked through every comment just now and i wanna tell sth..
dP0kM U6p i always suppose that it is not wisdom for our Chinese to follow the foreigners when greeting them in our China. pls. think this matter in their shoes, if you are abroad, would you still like to see something being seen at home everyday? of course no. then show them something fresh and brandnew.they will be sure very happy.
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X0eG then why not introduce our dishes,our custom,our peoples and our that many things?
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just my own view for referrence. waiting for more great idea...

I am wondering what to talk about? I am not good at  this:(

If you wanna familiar with a country， the first thing you should do is to learn from its culture。:loveliness:

I think it very important for us to know how to express ourselves in English,  and even
#~2P!\:azZ!x*P +D;n#L$Y,Rbusiness forum,trade forum,business opportunity,Business China,Business India,Brazil businessknow how to introduce some famous tourist resorts in our country in English. just because L-FuS$Z/q,g
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