The paper will evaluate different facts regarding why the communication skills is consideredas being one of the difficult processes especially for people from different cultures. As I belong to a different country which means a different culture, language, and a different living style therefore,I have facedcommunication problems during the first year of my college in Dublin. Due to this problem, I was unable to make new friends in the class and the other reason is that I was a really shy person.There were few of the crucial issues related to my communication, such as lack of confidence and nervousness. One of the issues was that I felt nervous whenever I pronounced a wrong word to someone. Moreover, making newer friends from different culture was a difficult task to me. I was looking to escape from my communicational issues but in order to continue my studies it was necessary to communicate with other students and professors.
“Communication is a difficult skill? Why?” because I have faced problems while communicating with different people. The communication problem arises when I first came to Dublin from Kuwait to continue my study in Dublin business school. There was a bit difficulty while communicating with people because in every country there is different phrases and slang words that they use, different greetings etc. But as I have completed my schooling in an American private school where English was my second language since I was a child, therefore this helped me a lot with studying abroad made it much easier for me to communicate. According to me I know English but not very well as comparedto the Dublin people of course, so I was not communicating that much with my classmates in first year because I was always nervous if I spelled a word incorrectly while communicating. It was a life-changing approach for the people that are from a different country as well as a different culture, that is hard for them to communicate with otherpeople of different countries, cultures (Morreale et al., 2017). Hence this problem was faced by me in my first year of college. The culture of Dublin is different from Kuwaitand their greetings area bit different. (Young, and Schartner, 2014). There are different approaches used by various people for enahncing the overall process of communication. Some of the forms of communication process are face-to-face communication, written form of communication and communicating with the help of gestures. My most of the fear was related with the face-to-face communicational approach. I can communicate easily with people in the form of written communication but I was facing huge amount difficulty in speaking directly to them in English.
Due to their cultural differences, their communication style is different, and this is the main reason for a person’s hesitation in order to communicate properly with the people from other countries(Teunissen et al., 2017).I feel that the communication in presentation’s is my greatest fear and this has occurred because of my hesitation and also for my nervousness. In addition, I think the symbolic interaction theory of communication will help me a lot to increase my communication level in the future. The theory states people interact with an individual belonging to different culture by the use of meaningful symbols. Hence by this symbolic approach, my fear of saying the wrong word will decrease a lot, and also it will increase my interaction with the students from different cultures. Besides this, it will enhance my confidence to interact with them without any hesitation. In addition, the author De Mooij, (2015) suggests that it become difficult for a person to easily communicate with another person that belongs to a different country with a different cultural aspect. Intercultural communication is a difficult approach, and most of the people hesitate to make good communication skill with others(Zhang, and Leung, 2015). They feel shy, and lack of confidence does not allow them to speak fluently with the people belonging to a different culture(Kang et al., 2016). This situation has occurred on the first year of my college in Dublin which suggests that communication is one of rigorous approach for a person belonging to a different culture.On the other hand, it is a matter of fact that communicating with people from diverse culture creates lots of confusion to understand the things properly. Moreover, practicing proper communication process with the help of a tutor of a friend helps in minimizing the communicational issues to a great extent.
As my years pass in Dublin I’m feeling its becoming easier for me to communicate studying abroad really helped me with being more of a confident speaker. The experience of the communication gap helps a person to improve the communication approach so that hesitation, as well as nervousness, will reduce easily in future(Palmer et al., 2016). Though the experience was not easy for me in the beginning, I came to know my problems related to communication approach and after identifying them, I can easily work on it to overcome my weaknesses.Furthermore, I was looking to practice the use of speaking English at my room in front of the mirror.There were few of the classmates which were really helpful and supportive. They encouraged me in speaking English to them without having any fear and they were correcting my communication process too by their own ability and skills. It is a matter of fact that each words in English has its own different meaning which are used at difference places and this also increased the difficulty for me at some instances.Therefore it can be said that communication is one of the difficult approaches because without proper interaction it becomes very difficult for the cross-cultural student to communicate easily with other people(Kälin, 2017). Thus for diminishing this communication issue, I made an action plan to decrease my nervousness while interacting with people all around the world. I have made a decision to myself where it is ok to spell a word wrong while presenting or talking, no one’s perfect I just need to relax and speak and put effort in my work and try my best to show my learning and communicating skills, as anxiety won’t get me to a point where I can show my capabilities.I can easily enhance my communication skill. Hence by this action plan, I can easily overcome my hesitation, and I will be more fluent in English language. One of friend at the institute suggested me to speak English in front of him without having fear and without caring for grammatical mistakes so that he can correct me easily by evaluating my mistakes. This approach also helped me in decreasing the communication issue for me. Different people having different ways to practice and enhance their way of communicating with people coming from diverse culture.
Communication is considered to be one of the difficult skills and without proper communication, it creates various issues for people to understand other feelings and thoughts.I have understood the fact that in order to communicate with people coming from diverse culture, the use of proper communication method is vital. Proper communicational techniques will help in evaluating the effectiveness while communicating with people in a well-defined manner.
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