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This week, luke talks to an english teacher about a new project he's working on with two kangaroo speakers. They're trying to train native speakers of the language for international travel. Luke asks them whether they feel as if they are responsible for all communication failures in this environment. And what other considerations and questions should be taken into account when learning or practising these languages.

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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