This document provides communication strategies for avoiding difficulties in communication and adjusting messages when facing language challenges. Some key strategies include omitting difficult words, using approximations, creating new words, using paraphrases, employing non-linguistic cues like gestures, seeking clarification from others, and maintaining the conversation with acknowledgements. The overall aim is to find alternative ways to express ideas when direct translation is not possible.

1. FluencyCourseCommunication strategies

2. Avoid CommunicationAvoidthewordorstructurewhichpresentsdifficulty.

3. AdjustthemessageAlterthemeaning,Omit some information,MakeideassimplerSaysomethingdifferentcricket

4. Use approximationUse wordsthat are lessspecificSome fruit.

5. CreatenewwordsWater-holder

6. Use paraphraseCircumlocutionDescriptionThatthing in thecar I can use to tiemyself in.Thethingthatyouboilwater in.

7. Use non-linguisticresourcesPut it there.The animal thatmakes “oinc-oinc”.MimeGestureImitation

8. Seek for helpWhat is thenameofthatsourfruitthathas a “crown” on top?Pineapple?

9. Ifyoudon’tunderstandsomethingsaidyoucan:

10. Ask for clarificationSorry?Excuse me?Pardon me?In otherwords...To put in anotherway...Couldyouexplainthat?Couldyousaythat in otherwords?

11. ClarifythemeaningWhat I mean is...I wouldn’tsay..., butI’dsay...

12. Use fillers...Uh?UmmI mean...Well...Whatever...

13. MantaintheconversationUh huhRightYeahOkayHmmThat’sinteresting.

14. KeepTalking!