English Communication- How to Start a Conversation
The best conversationalists know this: prepare several topics of conversation before you head out for a meeting, reception, social gathering phone call, or meal.
Adapt these to your situation:
- Sports (national, international, local)
- Weather (the good, the bad, the surprising)
- Local events
- Travel
- Music, film and art festivals, community theater
- Traffic//parking problems
- Latest movies or streaming shows (Academy Awards, Emmys, Golden Globes)
- Best-selling books
- Broadcast documentaries or current newsmakers
- News stories
- Hobbies (cooking, collecting anything, making anything)
- Holidays (New Years, Christmas, Chinese New Year, Halloween, Labor Day,)
- Schools attended (from grammar school on)
- The location you are in
- The event you are attending
- The host or hostess or mutual friends
Be sure to watch our English Speech Tips videos and Accent Reduction Tip videos for more English pronunciation and accent reduction exercises.
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