Questions tagged [verbal-communication]
For questions about issues specific to speaking out loud. Do not use this tag for questions about general communication.
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How to handle a person joining a conversation by asking a question you just answered?
I ran into this issue multiple times and I don't know how to act. For context: communicating in groups does not come naturally to me, so I often rely on skills I learned over time and not everyone may ...
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How and when should I bring up to dates that I am a gun owner?
I am a licensed, responsible gun owner. I own one handgun that I use to shoot at the range. I keep it locked in a safe as required by law, and (although I am allowed to) I do not keep live ammunition ...
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How can we convince grandmother to use the dishwasher?
Grandmother needs to start using the dishwasher, she evidently can no longer wash dishes by hand.
I visited my grandmother today, she served me some fried salmon and a bowl of ice cream. Afterwards, I ...
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Family of migraine patient - how to help kids understand violent outbursts of migraine patient (mother) in response to noise
I had assumed that my wife was a bad person due to the way she behaved when my daughter cried for any reason. She would get angry and even at times hit my daughter when she cried instead of consoling ...
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As a customer, how to deal with an unresponsive company representative without poisoning the relationship?
I am currently in the process of building a house, which is quite a stressful experience.
The site administrator (my immediate contact person) was recently replaced. The previous administrator was a ...
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How to communicate to my girlfriend that I'd like us to spend more time talking to each other?
I've recently (in the past two weeks) entered a relationship with a girl I've been dating for about two months. We, so far, seem to be pretty compatible with each other and I'm happy.
A little ...
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Me and my close friend often have phases when we do not talk to each other
This is very repetitive. We are very close friends, probably the only close friends of each other. But still, this happens again and again. For example, last time I was traveling, my close friend did ...
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A friend always talks in dry-professional language even though being very close to me for years
It is strange that one of my close friends, who I know for years and have spent a lot of time in recreational activities, talks to me in very dry-professional language. It is a very minor thing, but ...
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How to ask parents to stop screaming at other sibling?
There is a large age-gap between my younger sibling and I (it's just the two of us). I am a college student (at home due to the pandemic), while she is in middle school. More often than not, I find ...
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Dress code due to worry about staining lounge and homeware for casual get together
My friend is worried about potential staining and marking of her white and bright expensive lounge and other homeware goods. She is hosting a casual get-together with close friends at her home so she ...
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I don't want to make a free website anymore. Also concerned person may have signed up for auto-renewing hosting
Related to my last question, I'm trying to gain experience and a portfolio and offered to make someone a website for free. Things have not gone as smoothly as hoped for a number of reasons:
The ...
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Landlord was knocking on my door close to midnight regarding a (minor) complaint (that I had nothing to do with)
I recently moved into a new home. I share the place with 2 other roommates. Last night close to midnight the landlord came over banging on my bedroom door. I was about to fall asleep. It turned out ...
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How to explain to family that I don't want to keep fixing the same tech problems?
Firstly, I have a very good relationship with my family and there are no issues on that front. However, due to me working in a technical capacity professionally all of the technical questions / issues ...
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How can I assist my girlfriend to be independent and career minded
I am currently dating my girlfriend who is originally from Eastern Europe. She has many personality qualities that I admire such as reliable, honest , and emphaphetic / caring. I really enjoy spending ...
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How can I be honest and supportive?
I've been dating someone. They're still employed, but recently got a job offer for a job that is a 1.5 to 2 hour drive away, which they like more and pays better. We're still living apart. They haven'...
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How to communicate face-to-face with a person who never stops talking and listen?
I have a colleague at work who when speaking will keep talking without taking a breath AT ALL. I recorded our last call and checked the time he was talking vs. the time I was talking. He was talking ...
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How to explain to friends that I can do the technical part of making a website, but they have to come up with the content?
Where I live the economy isn't great for people trying to get into the tech industry, and that was before COVID-19. I would be happy to make websites for free for my friends. This would give me ...
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People assuming dead person's intentions
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My mom died about 1.5 years ago of cancer.
I'm 31 and have always been a Mama's boy, I'm proud of it, I'm an extremely good cook, I can darn my socks and so on.
Since my mom died tho, I ...
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How to apologize about a broken relationship with a relative?
I have a relative, with whom I had bad behaviour. Not rude, not mean, just that I had not the good words, I did not send much text messages, and thus I was not there when this relative needed me (no ...
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How to communicate to a fellow student of the opposite sex that avoids me that I have no interest in her whatsoever
It seems more and more evident that a fellow student (we are in the same engineering year) of the opposite gender tends to avoid me because she seems to fear that I am somewhat interested in her. This ...
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How to have friend doing a favour sign a contract without making it look like I'm taking advantage of him?
I have a tendency to over think things, get paranoid and get anxiety when it comes to the law. I had a couple of very unfortunate experience, even one I was completely in the right going to court is a ...
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How to have someone work on being on time and communicate it if they're late?
I have a group of friends and one person is often late and gives misleading communication. Twice he made it sound likes he's close and "just parking his car" but takes another 20-30 minutes to arrive. ...
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How to get someone to speak more clearly (with less idioms)?
(For a bit of a backstory, this question is related to this one here)
I have a friend called Bob. He's part of a group of friends I meet with regularly. Bob has a very direct, yet cryptic ...
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How to tell a colleague to lower down her Christmas spirit in office event organising?
I am part of a Fun committee in office and have the responsibility to organize the office events related to proceedings festivals. It's a secular company so we usually cover a variety of festivals - ...
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How to convince younger brother to participate in helping me and others instead of being too focused to something?
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I fought my younger brother when he flat out told me that whatever he's doing at the moment is much more important than any problems that are not his and that it is too much of a hassle to ...
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How can I communicate better with my indirect friends as a direct person?
I am a very direct person. Say what you mean, mean what you say, nothing more, nothing less. Most of my friends of my same gender happen to be indirect.
If I text one of my friends a question such ...
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How to reply to "I shouldn't have to speak to you like that"? [closed]
For more back story, see here. I was asked to a meeting with 2 people from a group of friends I hangout with. The subject was complex. I believe we all respect each other and value direct, open ...
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I keep forgetting the ways other people like to handle things [closed]
In the past I often heard my mum, my wife, my brother, or other relatives to complain about how I do certain things (washing dishes, cleaning, etc.) and advising me how they prefer I would do it. For ...
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How to tell about a deal-breaker without it sounding like an ultimatum
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My new date has a habit that is a deal-breaker for me. She knows it bothers me generally, but doesn't know it bothers me enough to break up with her.
My questions is, how do I tell her that ...
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How do I mingle with westerners in office as a south asian in the UK? [closed]
I came to the UK to work on contract through software company.
I've been in the UK now for more than 2 years now, but I'm still not able to make much rapport or personal friendship with westerners in ...
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How to make sure to get non-alcoholic beer at a bar? [closed]
Sometimes I have to drive by car after going to a bar. Hence at these times I don't want to drink alcohol (even though driving after drinking a modest amount of alcohol is allowed where I live, I don'...
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How to greet Teachers and Staffs?
I am in the final year of my Engineering degree but still find greeting my teachers difficult.
It happens whenever I am on my way to college, when I have to walk from the Hostel to Campus, which ...
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What do you say between recruiter talks in an interview? [closed]
I've had many interviews for recruitment and the problem I have is that I don't really have an idea about what to say when someone explains about their country and about the company and then the ...
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How do I argue in an impersonal manner?
Whenever I argue, people always seem to take it very personally. I see it more as problem solving, where the problem is whatever is being argued (99.9% of the time, the disputed premise is purely ...
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What are the effects of using a verbal tic in informal speech?
I've been watching the Japanese version of Naruto a lot, recently, and the word "dattebayo" really stuck with me...
Not necessarily a good thing, but I'm doing it pretty much unconsciously now.
I've ...
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Dealing with criticism of my mispronunciation of words [closed]
I learned a lot of higher level vocabulary words from reading books, as opposed to hearing people say them. This however leads to situations where I will pronounce a word based on the way I understand ...
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