<1/13 Bliss Meeting Notice> “What does your angel say to you?” by Nania on 1/13－Bliss English Club

<Bliss Meeting Notice> “What does your angel say to you?” by Nania on 1/13

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My dear Blissers,

Curious to how to interpret your life and answer your puzzles?

You are going to see it through neither the Tarot nor astrocode from our New Bliss fortunetelling expert, Nania this Saturday!!

Welcome to grasp this chance to explore yourself better on 1/13!!!

Agenda:

14:30-14:50 self-introduction & brief Introduction about cards

14:50-16:20 draw a card

16:20-16:40 Break

16:40-17:30 Q&A

Recap of Bliss Meeting <The Hidden Secret of English Communication> by Michael Wu on 1/7/2017

Host: Michael Wu

Participants: Ryna, Christine, Daniel Yang, Ellen Huang, Annie, Michael Wu, Barkley, Daniel Chen, Naihsin, Angela, Angel, Ting, Sophie Su

Name: Ryna

Photo link: https://goo.gl/photos/fyoJiexy7Mmy6Syz6

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Name: Christine Chen

Photo Link: https://goo.gl/photos/nDmQJ374KtuvMnE19

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Meeting's Photos link: https://goo.gl/photos/jEoNgRepdCsLYaKa7

The well-informed New Blisser Michael Wu, together with his friend, the intellectual beauty, Ryna proceeded the meeting causally and fulfilling as expected.

They successfully demonstrated some distinct examples and brought our awareness of the hurdles in communication as follows:

1. The different tone on each word in the interrogative sentence of “What would you like? “carries different meaning of the speaker.

2. The accents in sentences can be regarded as a regional indicator like “Where are you from?”

3. Punctuation which means “pauses” sometimes brings misunderstanding like “Cappuccino”.

4. Sentence Intonation, rise or fall in the sentence, can focus on the contrast, emphasis, reconfirmation, repetition, in which produce different effects either sarcastic, reassurance or the others!!

5. Racial, gender, political cultural prejudice in each country usually hinder the communication as reflected in JOKES. “Political Correct” wording should be carefully applied in daily communication. For example “Valley-girl tone” “”Asian Glow” should be avoided.

Lingual Games

1. Guessing the “action word” in a sentence “I xxx every day “using “Who-Q” or “Y/N-Q” in turn.

2. Make a sentence of “I’ve never xxxx in my life”, in which all the other attendees bend one of their fingers if they have ever engaged in xxxx in the life. The earliest one having bent all five fingers is the winner.

Myths unveiled:

l No legitimate accent at all; does feel free to say what you mean!!!

l Communication barriers can occur because of the speaker’s regional accents, bias, and unconscious errors, or his or her intentional use of punctuation, phrasing, intonation, tones, or even the nonlingual contexts and scenarios. Therefore be confident to figure out what the other(s) really mean without self-accusation first!!!

“Better Communication” Learning Tips:

1. Preview the text before the occasions if possible.

2. Watch the local sitcom to be easily immersed in the culture such as “TheBigbang Theory”.

3. As an adult, we can learn language better through higher-order cognitive functions and be internalized.

Reflections:

Michael and Ryna are such role models that encourage us to copy their success in English learning and aspiringly develop the mode in academic field. We appreciate their precious experience sharing and demonstration. Look forward to their dreams realized and meeting in the near future!!!