The Bridge to Meet in the Middle?

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Most native speakers are not doing this out of malice. They're just waiting for the english learner to come over. And i think it's fair, it is fairwith its equal, that they're at least putting a hand out. Maybe they're even building a little bit a bridge to meet in the middle. I think we're doing a lot of things without realizing it. That's the thing. We're just unaware of it. Em for many other reasons, em, but ye. Let's take one example'. But they're many. So it's not just that we are speaking too fast. Another example could be that we use lots of idioms, so lots of expressions

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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