International Communication: Introduction

In today's global society, the need to communicate with people from other societies is more important than ever. The wrong word or phrase can make or break business deals or be taken as a rude gesture and lead to other problems. Don't get called out for being rude or obnoxious to our global neighbors and friends.

In this free instructional video series, let a communications and public speaking expert show you how to avoid getting yourself in potential trouble with the international community. She explains how to eliminate distractions like noise and talks about the value of repeating yourself. She also discusses using slang and other word choices along with the importance of voice volume. This step-by-step video series will help you confidently have conversations with people across cultural boundaries.

"Hi there, I am Tracy Goodwin, and I'm the red sweater lady and today we're going to be talking about how to improve oral communication across cultures, and what I'm talking about is basically conversations with people who are not native speakers of English, or who are not American. Maybe English is their first language, but they come from a completely different culture that speaks English like Ireland, or England, or anywhere in the world. The reason that this is so important is because the world we live in today is so multi-cultural, and you're going to be having encounters with people from other countries, maybe as your college professors, maybe as your teachers, perhaps students that you go to school with, and certainly on many, many levels in many, many business organizations, as well as just in general life -going shopping, going to stores, driving in traffic. We have become a multi-cultural world and it's difficult sometimes to communicate with other people, and today I'm going to give you some really great tips that will hopefully broaden you as a communicator, especially across cultures."