Communication Barriers

1. Language

The different perspectives we experience can be with language as well. Few words used in one language may have totally different meaning in another language. Also, the regional dialect may affect the understanding at times.

2. Environment

The last area of influence on communication is your environment. All of us communicate differently in different environments.Do you speak to your teachers the same way that you do to your friends? Do you talk to strangers with more or less formality than people you know well?

3. Feelings

There are actually two ways in which your feelings can influence your communication with another person. The first simply refers to the way that you feel on a given day; if you feel well, you’ll communicate in one way and if you feel ill, you’ll communicate in another way. The second aspect related to feelings refers to how you feel about a specific person

4. Visual perception

Visual perception is the ability to see and interpret (analyze and give meaning to) the visual information that surrounds us.

5. Prejudices

Prejudices occur when we take an isolated experience with one ‘type’ of person and then act as if all encounters in the future with people of the same ‘type’ or with the same characteristics will result in the same experience.

6. Past Experiences

Past Experiences refers the impact of previous communication.

7. Cultural Diversity

When people from different cultural backgrounds communicate, the chance of misunderstanding and wrong interpretation of the message is higher.