ABSTRACT
You may be surprised to see 'general knowledge' in a section on language enhancement. But at the advanced levels of language knowledge at which you are now operating, the two overlap and intertwine. Think about the following for a moment: when you don't know a word in a foreign language there is a tendency to consider it a vocabulary issue; but when you don't know a word in your own language, you are more likely to talk about a shortfall in your general knowledge. And what happens if you have worked in, say, a hospital in your foreign language, but not in your own language? You know technical terminology in the foreign language that you don't know in your own. General knowledge and language knowledge are very much part of the same process.
