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Capricious Communication

Communication is a very fickle thing. We experience, use, and dive into it every second of our lives and yet it is still so misunderstood. Everyone reacts differently to all kinds of communication. You have verbal, visual, audio, written and then you have language barriers those who can’t hear or those who can’t talk and yet we still somehow manage to get across a very simple version of what we want in those situations. It’s truly fascinating to sit back and simply watch how others communicate — or fail to do so. Visual communication seems to be the one type of communication most people respond to the best. Sitting there being able to see how things work instead of being told and having your imagination take flight to see something completely different than what the person explaining it does. Math would be so much worse without visual communications along with learning an instrument or how to cook and so on and so forth. Learning a trade by reading a book with just words or simply list...

Willkommen! :)

     My name is Shavonne (Vonn), I am 19 years old and I attend Buffalo State college as a communications major with a minor in environmental science and English eduction. I plan on going to grad school to get a PhD in Linguistics. I hope that my main job in the future will be form my linguistics degree and then have a side job with a news paper or freelance writing along with teacher either english or a foreign language. One of my current jobs is at H ofbrauhaus Buffalo, an authentic German restaurant with live German and Polish Polka music every night and I couldn’t be more in love. I love to travel and am very intrigued with languages. I once participated in the Buffalo Dortmund sister city exchange where I went to Germany for three weeks and stayed with a family, I was then eligible to host when I got back and took up the opportunity. I hosted a German for the first four months of my senior year in high school and loved the experience. My senior year of high school I ...