Different countries have different and unique way to greet people. This includes the language used, the body language and the order of who should greet first. There are two ways of greeting, namely formal and informal. Formal greeting is when two person meet for a specific purposes, such as on business matter, or when two person meet for the first time. The conversations should be polite. Informal greeting is mainly a situation when two friends or relatives meet and they can converse in a "less" polite way.
Direct translation of greetings sound weird to me.
Tuesday, 26 February 2013
Reflection for Unit 1: Opening A Conversation (On 10th January, 2013)
Different countries have different and unique way to greet people. This includes the language used, the body language and the order of who should greet first. There are two ways of greeting, namely formal and informal. Formal greeting is when two person meet for a specific purposes, such as on business matter, or when two person meet for the first time. The conversations should be polite. Informal greeting is mainly a situation when two friends or relatives meet and they can converse in a "less" polite way.
Direct translation of greetings sound weird to me.
Direct translation of greetings sound weird to me.
Monday, 25 February 2013
Thursday, 21 February 2013
Reflection for Unit 6: Leave-Taking (on 20th February 2013)
In my
opinion, there is a slight difference of leave-taking in formal and informal
situation. In formal situation basically there are 4 stages of leave-taking:
saying that you have to leave; summarising; expressing appreciation and thanks;
and making plans to follow-up. On the other hand, for informal situation you
can just say that you are leaving and say that you hope to meet again.
However
there are times when you don’t have anything to say so I think the easiest way
is to just give them a very big sincere smile. This happens to me quite a lot
here and I also give them a slight nod to show my respect.
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