Communication is a process of exchanging information, ideas, feelings and emotions. Communication is important part of everyday life. We can communicate by many ways. We can talk, write and gesticulate. The most often way is talking, because it’s faster then writing and more understandable then gesticulation.
People communicate in different ways. Communication can be:
a) FORMAL– people who don’t know each other and are not friends communicate formally – it is for example the communication between a teacher and a student, a shop assistant and a customer, a policeman and a driver..
b) INFORMAL– friends and family communicate informally – it is communication between colleagues, schoolmates, between a brother and a sister, a parent and a child..
1. verbal– it is spoken language, there exist about 6000 languages in the world, the spoken word is usually face to face. People can ask questions, talk about the past, the present, and the future.
2. written– people write letters, e-mails, postcards, notes(odkazy) and so on – the communicator has more time to write what he want to say. He can read his ideas, change or correct them.
3. Non-verbal= gestures(gestá), mimics (mimika)
– hugging and kissing =objímanie a bozkávanie – when friends say “hello” or say “good bye”, parents kiss children or when people have romantic relationship they kiss on the mounth
– pass the hand –podať ruku – to congratulate sombedy – for birthday… or when people meet as friends
– mimics – mimika – we can express our feelings such as anger or happiness and send different kind of information – we cansmile, frown (mračiť sa)
– gestures– it means movements of hands, body and head
– people who can’t talk or speak (mute-deaf people = hluchonemí ľudia) – they usethe sign language (posunkovú reč)
Why is it important to learn foreign language?
· To learn and understand new information – some people need to translate new information in the field of science and new inventions and technologies.
· For travelling – many people travel abroad for holiday and others for a job – we need a foreign language we want to buy a ticket, buy food in a shop, go to the cinema or talk with foreign people.
a) printing press – kníhtlač – people used it in the past – it was discovered in the 14th century by a German inventor called Guttenberg
b) radio, film and
television
c) modern media:phone, mobile phone, fax, e-mail – we can call friends, send written messages and photos – we use a mobile phone; we can look for information and send letters on the Internet; we can talk to one man or several people using ICQ or the Skype and it is possible to see them, if they have a camera by the computer.
d) paintings, drawings, photos