A trip abroad is a great reason to pull the communicative skills. If you know one or more foreign languages, this is a real opportunity to cross the language barrier and improve the spoken language. You will not only learn new words and the intonation of the native speaker, but also you can find new friends. More about it - in our material.
Smile as often as possible
A positively configured person can be seen from afar. A cute smile and an open pose in the non-verbal level give a signal that means your readiness for a conversation. Even if you forget half the learned words, the local resident will understand you with gestures and will try to help you. Remember one lifehak: any forgotten word can be replaced with synonym or explained using the detailed description. The first half an hour of communication with foreigners you can feel awkwardness and think that you are laughing at you. However, this is not like this: in any tourist country, the locals are pleased to tell about their culture and traditions and learn new from you.
Explain to the help of gestures if you forgot the word
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Meet the non-Russian places
If you are in Europe and want to practice English, for example, real knowledge you will only get a conversation with local. Focus on the perfect pronunciation of the service personnel in hotels, popular restaurants and souvenir shops are not the best option. Wander through the streets of the city and go to the cafe where local residents are usually going. Typically, such places belong to married couples and are located on the first floor of a residential building, and not in a fashionable hotel in the city center. There you will meet family couples, older grandparents, young schoolchildren and other people. Ask about traditions, upcoming events, their favorite dishes and drinks, nearby non-cities. In a conversation with them, you will learn about the country much more than from guidebooks.
Make purchases in the markets
Ensimizing people will be easier to make a conversation with sellers at the grocery market. It is enough to smile a person to smile, buy something for himself or a gift to him, and then ask some simple questions to arrange to a conversation. Note, what is the wonderful or surprisingly bad weather today - with this standard theme you can start talking with anyone. Further submit and tell about yourself, your goals of the trip and share the impressions already received. In response, the interlocutor will gladly tell a little about himself and put the beginning of the discussion for interesting things to you. Feel free to use an application-translator in the phone with voice input, if you can not understand the meaning of the words tested by a person. True, do not resort to it too often - risk an irritation of the interlocutor.
Meet people
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Exchange contacts with new acquaintances
When the conversation is drawn up and you do not want to stop communicating with a new friend, you can ask him to add you as a friend in social networks. There is nothing strange in this: the world because of the possibility of rapid movement on airplanes became small, so you can communicate and periodically with friends from all over the globe. Offer a new friend to meet again before your departure - let him show you his favorite place in the city or will introduce his friends. The more people you learn, the better for your language practice.