Communication Barriers: Strategies to Remove and Cultural Awareness

This article discusses communication barriers such as language, prejudices, and non-verbal communication. It also provides strategies to remove these barriers, including developing cultural awareness and communicating according to another culture's requirements. The importance of practicing good manners and celebrating cultural differences is emphasized. The article concludes by highlighting the significance of cultural and linguistic barrier removal for effective communication.

COMMUNICATION
COMMUNICATION BARRIERS
This usually happens because of cultural
difference while communicating.
STRATEGIES TO REMOVE COMMUNICATION BARRIERS
Listening to and focusing on what is being said Avoiding Slangs while communicating individual from another
culture
CULTURAL AWARENESS

COMMUNICATION
INTRODUCTION
Communication is a means through which individual transfers their ideas and thoughts to another individual or party.
Successful communication is one in sender and receiver both has the same idea from the message.
COMMUNICATION BARRIERS
Language
Language barrier one of the most
important barriers in successful and this
barriers occurs when language known
and spoken by individuals is different.
This can be because of cultural difference
and difference in native language of
people. This also involve barrier which
occur because of difficulty in
understanding unfamiliar accents.
Prejudices and false perception
This is barrier in communication which
occurs because of different and false
perception people have for the sender of
the communication. This creates
difficulty in understanding what exactly
another individual is saying and the
exact intention behind the message
which has been sent to receiver of the
message.
Non-Verbal Communication
This is the barrier in communication
which occurs because of inability to
understand non-verbal communication,
gestures, movements and body language.
These are very important element of
communication and this is why correct
understanding of these is important and
absence of correct understanding lead to
barrier in communication.
STRATEGIES TO REMOVE COMMUNICATION BARRIERS
Developing cultural awareness
This is important strategy and this
involves that individual should develop
cultural awareness. This cultural
awareness involves understanding
behaviour of people in another culture.
How they greet, communicate and their
communication preferences. This help
in avoiding any prejudice and
misconception about another culture
and its people.
Understanding of basic language of
another culture
Individual before going into another culture
should ensure that they have basic
understanding of language which is spoken
in another culture. They should also learn
basic words of the language which are
mostly required to speak. This will remove
communication barrier which occur
because of cultural difference.
Communicating according to
requirements
This means that when in another culture
individual should communicate only
which is important and is actually
required to be communicated. This will
avoid any type of confusion which may
lead to interrupt and affect the actual
communication which is important.
CULTURAL AWARENESS
Celebrating Differences
This means rather getting upset
about differences in individual they
should learn to celebrate difference
in culture. This will allow individual
to respect another culture and learn
from rather than creating any
misconception about another culture.
Practicing Good Manners
Individuals should practice good manner
because cultural diference may lead to changes
in manner of one culture from another.
Practicing good manners will ensure that
manner of individual are above any cultural
difference. For example- Please and Thank You
are two important manners that individual can
practice.
Knowledge about common Values
and Beliefs
Individual before entering in
another culture should ensure that they
have basic knowledge of beliefs and
values of different culture so that they
can avoid any conflict on the basis of
them.
CONCLUSION
Culture is an important element in communication and this is why cultural difference create barrier in communication. This is why
by removing cultural and linguistic barrier individual and group can effectively communicate.
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