Conversation Skills: Avoiding unwanted conversations
Conversation Skills: How to Avoid Them
- Introduction: The lesson focuses on how to avoid conversations, contrasting with typical English lessons that teach how to initiate and maintain dialogues.
Reasons for Avoiding Conversations
- Personal Preference: Sometimes, individuals simply don't want to engage in conversation.
- Scenario Example: The speaker shares an example of walking their dog in the morning before having coffee and not wanting to interact with other dog owners.
- Annoying Questions: People ask unwanted, personal questions (e.g., about the dog's gender or age).
Tips to Avoid Conversations
- Rule: Don't look at people you want to avoid talking to.
- Contrast: To initiate a conversation, direct eye contact is necessary.
2. Don't Ask Questions
- Rule: Refrain from asking the other person questions.
- Example: Avoiding asking about the other person's dog.
- Contrast: Asking questions is a way to further conversations.
- Example of a conversation: Asking