Communication skills

Communication skills

Communication skills are among our most important life skills. They are a product of the abilities we are born with and what we have done to develop those abilities.

Some people hate writing letters, or are petrified by the need to speak in public. Some are afraid of the telephone, or unable to get a point across in a heated argument. Others are capable of setting an after-dinner audience rolling in the aisles, or of writing a best-selling novel. But whatever the level of our communicating skills, we can make them better, given only the wish to do so and help such as this book offers.

Skill is the ability to do something well, especially because you have learned and practiced it. Communication skills are the ability to communicate well with others, to convince and to find the compromise, to listen and speak. Without these important skills no success may be reached, and people gain these skills and improve them during their whole life.

Key communication skills that can be learned by translators are:

Listening

Speaking

Understanding verbal information

Understanding paralanguage and non-linguistic information

Persuasion / Impression management

Cross-cultural skills

Interpreting meanings on the basis of all information.

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