The Travel Adapter

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The project that we can talk about is called the travel adapter. So this is about native speakers adapting their english to an group. A think that we're sitting in a international meeting, right? And we have two people from italy, two from france, two from brazil and they're communicating together. Despitee the so called mistakes, they are able to understand each other fine,. They're focused on communication, what should be always our our first goal.

740. Are native English speakers bad communicators? (The Travel Adapter with Matt Halsdorff)

Talking to English teacher Matt Halsdorff about a project to train native English speakers how to communicate better with non-natives. We talk about the reasons why native speakers are often bad at communicating with non-natives, what they should do to fix this and the wider issues relating to this topic. Video version available.

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