740. Are native English speakers bad communicators? (The Travel Adapter with Matt Halsdorff)

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🗓️ 14 September 2021

⏱️ 70 minutes

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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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0:27.0	suddenly has gone good it was all muggy and sort of humid and a bit too hot and grey and a bit rainy the last few days but the sun has
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0:45.0	Again, the weather is solid here at podcast headquarters.
0:50.0	Is this going to be a sort of a new thing? Am I going to do a weather report at the beginning of every episode? I don't think so that's that's more of a Rick Thompson thing isn't it? The Rick Thompson report usually begins with a weather report. I've mentioned Rick Thompson now and people will be thinking
1:07.3	oh can we have more Rick Thompson reports? Yes that's in the pipeline okay always and some other interesting's in the pipeline, okay, always.
1:13.2	And some other interesting things in the pipeline too,
1:15.4	including an announcement, which I'll be making
1:18.5	on the podcast soon, which is cool.
1:21.2	So good news, I think. Anyway, a little teaser there. Let me tell you about this episode.
1:27.0	So in this episode you're going to listen to me in conversation with Matt Halstorf, who is an English teacher with many years of teaching experience,
1:35.8	and we're going to be discussing the question of whether native English speakers are in fact the
1:40.6	worst communicators in an international English environment.
1:45.0	Matt is currently working on a project with Christian Saunders from Kangaroo English.
1:50.6	I think the project sounds really interesting and raises a few good questions about how
1:56.0	native speakers and non-native speakers communicate with each other, what non-natives really struggle with in this language and whether
2:04.4	native speakers can do anything to help. If you saw my latest video interview
2:09.6	with Christian from Kangaroo English and you watched until the end you might remember us
2:14.2	discussing this project briefly. If you remember Christian mentioned a training course
2:19.4	in communication in English but the twist is that it's for native speakers.
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