The aim of one to write this assay is to briefly explain interpersonal communication and state

the barriers of interpersonal communication. One is going to give some ways of objecting
these barriers of communication, and lastly one is going to conclude on her point of view
towards the advance stated barriers of interpersonal communication. There are so many
barriers of interpersonal communication but one has found some.
Interpersonal communication is the communication whereby there is a giver who portrays a
message to the receiver and the receiver after decoding the message sends the feedback to the
sender to ensure that the message is decoded correctly. So during this process there might be
barriers that can destroy the message to be decoded correctly to the receiver else the sender
may be interrupted to encode the message. One has found that there are many types of
barriers towards interpersonal communication. The physical barriers of interpersonal
communication can be pointed as one, it is the barrier whereby people are distracted to
communicate personally due to either environmental condition where one could find him or
herself in the unworthy place, and communication is hampered with other people because one
in this environment can not focus on what other people are saying bu only on his or her
condition.
Distance too is considered as a physical barrier of communication because it keeps people
far away from each other so the chances of communication are low. People need to use phone
calls or letters and the communication is weak due to delaying of the response, this can
happen either because of network problems for phone calls or other electronic forms of
communication or if communication is done through writing, he letter can reach the owner
after the stated period of time. Usually, communication includes signs and symbolic
expressions to pass the message so ignorance of medium can also be considered as physical
barrier of communication. For example, most people adopt street talk to others who do not so
one could use a thumb finger to show others that what he said means okay.
One can overcome these physical barriers by trying by all means to communicate face to face
to the one he or she wants to talk to because physically, there are less chances of barriers to
communication. Again, the video conferencing is highly adopted world wide to reduce the
cost travels and time saving as people talk like face to face and signs are easily made where
there is a misunderstanding between the communicators. A Skype video call can be a good
example. However, one can not see on her point of view that physical barriers do exist
because she is nearer to the one she needs to communicate with.

The other type of interpersonal communication barrier is the cultural barriers These are the
ways of how things are done. It can be through racism like lifestyle of Americans and the
Japanese or work place. The examples of cultural barrier is the generational. In most places
of the world, age mates has their own language and dressing code and their lifestyle is likely
the same. So the communication is much simpler than to other people. For example, the
current generation wear crop tops while the older ones wore the stomach outs. It may sound
funny but true. The status and resistance is the other type of cultural barrier of interpersonal
communication. The work places have different ways of dealing with their positions,so
people from elsewhere can be amazed to things are done on other people s work places and
that can hamper communication because to the foreigner it can be a disaster to ask about
everything. These types of barriers also has the ways how one can overcome them. One has
to be update to all this languages of every generation and study work culture of others before
being involved in it.
The other type of interpersonal communication barrier is language barrier which one can
point as the main barrier. This is the difference of people s tongues from their belief and race.
It has been a drama world wide of how people communicate and lastly, the English language
was chosen to be the international language that collides all the races. The examples of
language barrier is the dialects, two people may speak the same language but the dialects one
use may differ from the other. An example may be taken from Basotho people between rural
areas and urban areas. The people from rural areas usually call a door lehlafi while it is
called monyako in urban areas. This can be a barrier of communication between the two.
Language disabilities is also the other example of Language barrier in interpersonal
communication, since these are the physical impediments to language, they include deafness.
Someone deaf can not here anything one is saying.
The language as the barrier to interpersonal communication can be abstained by interpreting
always when talking. The problem might be what if the interpreter proves one who does not
understand the language wrong? But the answer is that one should always be faithful between
the two.One has to translate relevant information by using the primary language or the
understandable language to ensure that the message is

going to be decoded correctly.

Language classes as done at schools are necessary because they enable free communication
between races. The language barrier even promotes bad behavior between people, one often
insults the foreign people whereas smiling at them only because she or he realizes that poor
person does not understand the offenses.

There are also the internal barriers of communication said to be Perceptual barriers types of
interpersonal communication. It tells how people judge things the way they see them not
thinking of how other people may see them. The example of the perceptual barriers are
perceptual filters. Each person his his or her own style: attitude towards some things, what
one prefers, origins and different experiences. All these things act as filters. They may lead to
assumptions which of cause may not be genuine. And it promotes stubborn people, so there is
constantly no effective communication under such circumstances. Triggers and cues are other
types of perceptual barriers of communication. Normally, what one says is received on how
he or she said it. The body language and facial gesture,tone used, the voice projection and
quality all co operate on how the message is passed. People usually play and say bad things
but in polite manners and those do not start conflicts but if one can say the same things in
rude manners, conflicts start. Perceptual barriers can only be objected by good manners.
There are also interpersonal barriers of communication. More like perceptual, interpersonal
barriers take place in within a person too but these are a desire to participate. More often,
interpersonal barriers affect guys than other people. They judge their crush or girls within
their hearts even before they could talk to them and that hinders the interpersonal
communication. It is very frustrating to talk to someone who is not willing to speak to one. A
desire to explore ideas is also discouraging. Coming up with an idea which one firstly looked
at its off sides can hamper communication too because one thinks other people could
undermine him or her for such an idea. One is required to construct criticism and always be
sure of the composure during the communication process. Listening skill is needed for
interpersonal barrier of communication and the use of simple words when responding or
giving instructions.
Gender can also be considered as the barrier of interpersonal communication. It is likely
frustrating for a man to talk too much on ladies and vise verse to a lady on men even though
the world is full of talkative s. So in conclusion, one can deem it profitable to face to face
communication since the barriers are rare.

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