1. From the podcast project, I hope to learn more about the interaction, similarities, and differences between Japanese and Western gaming industries and tastes. I also hope to learn more about constructing conversational Japanese, as well as different things about Japanese culture from other people's podcasts.
2. To me, communication is more than just a planned interaction/exchange of words. Many aspects of communication are unplanned, and involve the transfers of ideas and themes perhaps subconsciously. It is the spreading of differences in a way that makes everyone involved more knowledgeable in other cultures. Communication can happen verbally, face-to-face or otherwise, across the world through the magic of the internet, yet it doesn't even have to involve words. Pictures and art are vital to communication, yet most contain no words. Communication is a process that is a fundamental part of the world's culture today, and will certainly continue to shape our world as we know it.
I agree that communication is both planned and unplanned and can be performed through many different mediums, not just verbal. I think the unplanned and the non-verbal can be the most telling forms of communication, but also the forms that can be the most misinterpreted - however, if we all understood each other perfectly, it'd be pretty boring, right?
ReplyDeleteI agree with ducky as well, its actually pretty frightening to think how much we communicate not just with words, but through the timing of words, actions, even simply intonation. すぎもと
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed your post about communication because you wrote about art and pictures being a vital part of communication, which I hadn't thought about before. Through art, people are able to express themselves, and I think that's part of what makes art is so fascinating.
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