BBC World Service | Learning English | Working Abroad - Language: Introduction page 1 of 1

This unit explores verbal communication and language; the words we use, how we use them and how we say or write them.

To be successful you need to both understand what you are being told and to know that people understand you.

Over the next few pages, you'll find out about some of the more common ways in which language creates difficulties and hear some advice on how to overcome them.

ACTIVITY
Listen to our interviewees' experiences. What did one interviewee have to do in a canteen apart from speak French?