Discussion Board 4

Introduction to speech community has been one of my best courses. It has impacted me positively in so many different ways and I am looking forward to using its skills to be able to communicate with my friends, family, and other people around me in a better and more fluent manner. However, there were challenging parts of this course and one of them was the group activity unit 3. Even though we understood what was needed it was very difficult to first come up with what type of service or product to provide and how to advertise or talk about it positively. Therefore that was a challenging part but in the end, we were able to come up with the best way to deal with the assignment. To overcome this challenge in the future I am hoping to be able to discuss and research more deeply about current issues and be in active discussion with my group members for a possible way to do an assignment of this type.

At home, communication with my parents is always good and smooth. However, I always feel that I depend on them so much in most of my decisions. Therefore I am hoping the communication skills I have learned will help me begin communicating with them by bringing ideas to the table and not always asking what I am supposed to do. The communication skills will also help me understand my friends better since most of my friends like nonverbal communication. Non-verbal communication is a very good communication method especially for expressing emotions I am hoping to understand my friends better. I will also be able to understand better my baby sister who tries to communicate almost everything non-verbal even though she is learning to talk.