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Verbal and Non-Verbal Communication

What are the strengths, weaknesses, threats, and opportunities of verbal and non-verbal communication?

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Strengths include exact steps as to what is trying to be communicated by the use of language. Other strengths are the ability to tell others exactly what is needed, being able to teach others the language, creating great literature and creating poetry. Weaknesses include the fact that everyone speaks a different language around the world and therefore not everyone will be able to understand everyone else and some people don't have the ability to speak at all. Other weaknesses include the fact that some people don't use language properly and use it to hurt others or don't use it in a grammatically correct way, language can also become a hinderance if it is too complicated to understand and sometimes acts as a barrier for when they don't understand it in a new environment. Threats include other forms of communications such as e-mail, text ...