From the course: Multinational Communication in the Workplace
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Simplify your language
From the course: Multinational Communication in the Workplace
Simplify your language
- As a native English speaker, have you ever been in a situation where you've said something that sounded very normal and easy to you but your foreign colleague couldn't understand what you were saying no matter how many times you repeated it? Maybe there are a few tricks to try and say that in a more comprehensible way. First, try and use verbs that are made up of a single word instead of more than one. For example, if you said, let's come up with some ideas, it could be confusing. It would be better to say, let's think about some ideas. Try to find a Latin-derived word. Instead of, look after these documents, use, tend to these documents. Instead of, put off a meeting, use postpone a meeting, et cetera. They probably sounds strange, archaic, or too formal, but many foreign languages have words derived from Latin, so that makes comprehension a lot easier. Another way to help comprehension is to slow down your speech, separating words clearly. One thing my students always complain…
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