Help! I'm A Native Speaker But No One Understands My English
What you'll learn
- Communicate more effectively with people from other cultures.
- Understand why there are problems in intercultural communication.
- Use techniques and strategies they will learn in the course to resolve communication problems.
- Discover how to communicate better with non-English speakers
Requirements
- Technical requirements are just a device to access the course.
- You need to be open to personal development in the area of intercultural communication.
Description
Are you a native speaker of English but foreigners find your English difficult to understand?
Do the people you work with say they understand you when they clearly don't?
Do you feel you and your non-native colleagues are on a completely different wavelength?
Then this course is for you.
In this course, we
Highlight the reasons why native speakers of English have problems communicating effectively with coworkers and customers who are from a different culture.
Help you to understand intercultural dynamics and how to deal with them constructively while, at the same time, respecting other cultures.
Look at why two people can have a completely different interpretation of the same sentence.
Discover that even native speakers from different countries don't understand each other!
Discuss the need for both sides of the conversation to speak "better" English.
Once we have identified the issues that interfere with intercultural communication, we focus on the simple but effective solutions you can implement.
Solutions such as:
Accent reduction (for native speakers!!)
Grading your language
Concept checking
So, if you are a native speaker of English and need help because your colleagues or customers don't understand your English, check out this course now.
Intercultural communication is communication between people of different cultures . Intercultural communication refers to a process where people from different cultures share meanings. It can be symbolic, interpretive and transactional.
Intercultural communication is becoming a vital skill set as business, education and relationships become increasingly global.
It is important to learn how to deal with cultural differences when you interact with international students, whether they are studying abroad, traveling, or working in multinational offices.
This course will teach you how to recognize your cultural identity and those of others, as well as the cultural assumptions that we all hold, the nuances and potential for cross-cultural interaction and (mis)understanding. Learn about different communication styles and how they can differ from one country to the next. Also, learn how to adapt and assess diverse situations.
Who this course is for:
- Native speakers of English working with foreigners, either abroad or in their own country, who are having communication problems that affect their business.
- People who work with English native speakers and need help to understand why there are communication problems.
- HR professionals who need help to resolve intercultural communication issues.
Instructors
- 4.3 Instructor Rating
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- 668,595 Students
- 119 Courses
Scott Paton has been podcasting since the spring of 2005. He has executive produced and/or co-hosted over 45 podcasts. An internationally renowned speaker, Scott has presented to audiences from London, England to Sydney, Australia, from Vancouver, BC to New York, NY, from LA to Rwanda. Thousands of entrepreneurs and NGO's have changed their public engagement strategies based on Scott's sharing. We hope you will, too!
Scott has over 640,500 students from 199 countries taking at least one of his 100+ courses.
Scott joined Udemy in 2013. In late 2014, one of his clients inspired him to make a video course on Podcasting. He revisited Udemy and got very excited at the potential. After his course went live, Scott told his clients and many decided to make courses but needed help, so he has become a co-instructor with them, while continuing to support and build his own courses. His co-topics all include areas of life-long learning by Scott, including Futures Trading, Alternative Health, EFT, and Relationships.
- 4.2 Instructor Rating
- 288 Reviews
- 43,116 Students
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Martin has been teaching English to students from Beginners to Advanced, from children to grandmothers, for over 25 years. He has helped thousands of students to pass many different types of exams including the Cambridge University KET, PET and IELTS and the ToEFL iBT. He was also a Cambridge examiner until a couple of years ago, when he decided to focus on teaching online.
Martin is a popular teacher trainer, having run many seminars and workshops for the British Council, Pearson Education, Oxford University Press and Cambridge University Press. At these events he used a lot of materials and games he created himself, with an emphasis on fun and learning through laughter.
Nowadays, he specializes in improving speaking skills and training people to do presentations.
In his free time Martin loves reading, writing and watching films. He is also a prize-winning songwriter. And, as you might expect from his "English Jokes" course, he loves helping his young son develop his sense of humour.
"My wife is always telling me 'Our son's jokes are worse than yours!' " :-)
- 4.3 Instructor Rating
- 13,708 Reviews
- 652,825 Students
- 113 Courses
Research published this year by Harvard and Stanford Business Schools suggests that health problems associated with job-related anxiety account for more deaths each year in the US than Alzheimer’s disease or diabetes. It is likely that the same is true in the UK.
The combination of the Amazon story and the recent study into the impact of work-related stress means that there are important questions that all organisations should ask themselves.
These include: What type of management culture do we foster? What informal conflict management techniques do we offer to foster healthy workplace relationships? What are we doing to enable people at work to enjoy their jobs and thrive, both psychologically and physically?
Scott teaches non-violent communication techniques that help managers live healthier productive lives.