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Probably the most experience I've had with intercultural communication are language barriers. Currently, I am deployed to the middle east. I recently had the opportunity to explore the area around me. I went sight-seeing with a group of friends to Jerash, also known as the Roman City of Jerasi. Just communicating with our tour guide was hard because although he spoke some English, some words and phrases he just couldn't understand, and same, he didn't know how to tell us details that he couldn't translate. There were obstacles to communicating with our tour guide but through some techniques, we were able to understand what each other were saying.
There were major communication differences between the tour guide and myself. First off, he was …show more content…
I was nervous about the outline and the prep time. I got my outline finished on Thursday and I was planning to do the recording of the speech in front of my co-workers on Saturday. First of all, I don't really like talking about myself, and when I do I tend to repeat myself and say umm a lot. It's uncomfortable, and I also don't sound confident when I speak about myself. For prep, I went into a room at work and started to say things out loud because for some reason saying things in my head do not allow me to learn very well. Next, I stepped it up and I actually gave the speech to just one of my co-workers, asking for critique. Honestly, this was my best performance of the speech. After that, I practiced some more to myself and then finally I gave the speech. This was hard, as my co-workers thought it would be funny to mess with me. I started to speak and I really got into it and felt very confident. The speech started off great until one of my co-workers yelled, "BALLS!" Although it was distracting I restarted but I had just tried this three times. My nerves were getting the best of me and I started to repeat myself a lot. Damn …show more content…
I kept looking away from her because I was trying to be stubborn. Also, my facial expression showed a lot of my emotion towards the conversation. I would say I followed the guidelines when it comes to nonverbal communication because honestly, I wanted to convey that I was upset. The only thing I didn't do well was saying, "yes everything is okay" and have my non-verbal messages match that. I didn't really follow it because I'm a stubborn person. Sometimes people say things that they don't mean in hopes that the other person will pick it up. It's confusing and I hate it. We should do that. Next time, I would really like to think about what I'm saying and make sure that what I'm saying matches my nonverbal

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