Communication forms the basis for all successful human interaction.

If you have ever found yourself needing to ask for directions in a foreign country then you will have experienced how much we rely on communication to gain needed information. You will also have experienced one of the more obvious barriers to communication, the lack of a shared or common language.

With Latin origins, the word communication means to reach a common understanding of ideas. This requires a person with an idea to encode it into a message, send it to another who receives, decodes and interprets the message as the original idea. Continue reading →