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• Foreign Language
• Communication between people of different countries becomes difficult if neither of the speakers has a common
language to communicate in.
• Dialects are regional variants of a language. English spoken in the UK has 37 dialects. The use of may result in
miscommunication.
• Accents are peculiar ways of pronouncing words of a language. Accents occur when speakers belonging to different
regions or countries speak a language not their own. This causes difficulty in understanding what is being said.
• Jargon is language or words that are specific to a particular profession. Excessive use of jargon in communication may
make comprehension difficult. For example – a doctor’s prescription, the results of a medical test, financial and legal
documents need interpretation of experts for the layman.
• Slang refers to those words or expressions that are peculiar to a group of persons who are familiar with it. It is an
informal language that persons.
Psychological Barriers