English Communication- How to Start a Conversation

The best conversationalists know this: prepare several topics of conversation before you head out for a meeting, reception, social gathering phone call, or meal.

Adapt these to your situation:

• Sports (national, international, local)
• Weather (the good, the bad, the surprising)
• Local events
• Travel
• Music, film and art festivals, community theater
• Traffic//parking problems
• Latest movies or streaming shows (Academy Awards, Emmys, Golden Globes)
• Best-selling books
• Broadcast documentaries or current newsmakers
• News stories
• Hobbies (cooking, collecting anything, making anything)
• Holidays (New Years, Christmas, Chinese New Year, Halloween, Labor Day,)
• Schools attended (from grammar school on)
• The location you are in
• The event you are attending
• The host or hostess or mutual friends

Be sure to watch our English Speech Tips videos and Accent Reduction Tip videos  for more English pronunciation and accent reduction exercises.

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