Language and communication

COMMUNICATION:
Human is sociable creature and communication is important part of everyday life. We can communicate by many ways. We can talk (verbal communication), write (e-mail, letter, sms, etc.) and gesticulate to spread information among other people. The most often way is talking, because it’s faster then writing and more understandable then gesticulation. THE SECRET OF SUCCESFULL TALK:
Everyone knows talkative people who haven’t problems with speaking to other people at the party, in a bus, at the railway station. How do they do this? We all want to start and keep going a good conversation, so I’m going to tell you about some simple techniques that anyone can use. When you talk to someone it’s very important to show that you interested in them. So you don’t have to talk about deeply important things. Just talk about simply things like the weather or a television program that you saw last night. These obvious things will soon lead into other more interesting topics. You should pay compliment, because everyone wants to receive it and it’s an easy way into a conversation. (for example- “That’s a nice jacket. Where did you buy it?”)
You can use friendly body language. Your face and body can communicate much more than your words. If you stand with your arms folded or if you keep looking around the room, the conversation will quickly end, because you look uninterested. Instead you should make eye contact, keep an open posture and smile. If you send out friendly messages, you will get friendly messages back.
You should pay attention. People like to talk about themselves and they will think you are fascinating if you ask questions that allow them to do so. But people often don’t listen properly. They are too busy thinking about the next thing that they themselves want to say. Good conversationalist listen carefully and they show that they are listening, too. They ask questions, nod their head in agreement or say things like ”Oh, that sounds exciting.”
There are some topics that you should avoid. Don’t ask people about personal problems, money or religion. It’s also good idea to avoid the kind of statements that say “I’m right.

You are wrong.” It’s all right to express your opinions, but soften your comments with expression such as “I’m afraid, I have to disagree with you there.”
Just you follow these simple rules and you’ll soon find that you can hold a pleasant conversation with anybody about anything.

LEARNING LANGUAGES:
Globalization of the world and new ways of transport cause that people travel a lot, meet people from other countries and it’s necessary to know foreign languages to communicate. Sometimes it isn’t necessary but it makes things easier, when you know at least one world language. Nowadays the English is used as universal language and you can use it almost everywhere. Learning foreign languages have become very popular in last few years. People in Slovakia used to learn mostly one language, mainly Russian, but now learning of western languages growing up on popularity. I thing today English and German are most useful languages, but I would like to learn Spanish or Russian also.
There are many ways how to learn language. The fastest one is to live in the country, where everybody speaks only the language you want to learn. You are forced to use it all the time. You need just a few months to be able to communicate. On the other hand your grammar knowledge is very poor. The second way is to pay lessons and learn grammar and vocabulary as well. ENGLISH LANGUAGE:
More than 00000000 people use English as a first language (USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom, Ireland) and more than 300 million use it as a second language (India, Pakistan, South Africa).