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BOBY LANGUAGE: AN INTERNATIONAL LANGUAGE?
When one first learns to speak another language,they may be deterred from fluency by their non-verbal signs.Changing with each cuture in the translated definition of body language.When at first exposed to a new environent where attitudes,language and behavior are all unfamiliar,people may often suffer from cultural shock.With these varying meanings from country to country it is easy to see how misunderstanding occurs.Culture gives menings to manners,different hand gestures,how close we may stand in a conversation,our patience and even handshakes and greetings influence every aspect of non-verbal communication.
Each country has their own signs and non-verbal commnunication:
In Brazil for example:
1. Use good eye contact when conversing. Business cards are often exchanged, and business meetings usually serve strong black coffee.
2. To say, There arent any more, vendors will place their fingers extended and flip the thumb back and forth. Snapping fingers and whipping the hand down and out emphasize statements. Brazilians will pinch the earlobe between thumb and forefinger to express appreciation.
3. People stand relatively close when conversing or waiting in line.
9. Handshakes are warm; people tend to be affectionate.
10. Greetings are carried out with handshakes accompanied with touching of the forearm, elbows, and pats on the back.
In Canada:
1. It is polite to maintain good eye contact. Men rise when women enter the room. It is considered bad manners to eat while on the street.
2. No excessive gesturing.
3. People stand about a half-meter apart when conversing.
7. Women greet with a slight nod.
9. Men greet with a firm handshake.
Can you give some more examples of non-verbal signs? Are there any international gestures that everybody can understand?
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I had experience with japanese people. They prefer not to handshake, instead of that they usually bow their body up and down at least twice, while their face show a slight smail.
Pablo
Hello!!!
Well, i practice some non verbal signs. When I'm in hurry, I watch the clock many a time to say: "Sorry, I can't give you more time. I have to go!!!"
However, I think there is some non-verbal signs used in around the world, regardless of the singular culture's manners. For example, a greeting can be expressed with a nod. Similarly, a shrug means that a person ignores something.
Silvia
Hello, I thing that raising the arm with palm open, it is an international sign to great people. I do it usually anywhere
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1. I usually see some social party, that es celebrate in muy city.
2. I thin in our country, there are very few national holidays.
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I work teaching indigenous women of rural zones, so I need communicate through gestures, by body language, by facial expression, because I do not speak shipibo connibo. Finally the nonverbal communication is very important for the interaction between the women and I.
Non-verbal communication is viewed as a key process in interpersonal relationships, non-verbal language is the lag in our evolution, such as a doctor I have regularly observed that there are universal gestures to express the pain somewhere in the body, this manifested by gestures with his face and shrink the body to the site of pain. Another universal gesture is when we deny something, gestures are turning the head and gesturing with his face or hand. I believe that all non-verbal language used frequently but not perceive.
In Puno, first, the people greet the mother earth (Pachamama) before begin an activity. They pour water, soda or any other beverage with much respect.
They believe that the mother earth blesses their work.
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