Half the world is filled with people who have something to say and can’t say it and the other half of the people who have nothing to say and keep on saying it” - Robert Frost Communication is an exchanging of ideas, thoughts, and feelings between two or more entities. We share our thoughts with our friends and family members and coworkers. A barrier is an obstacle which prevents the flow of speech and communication. Miscommunication can originate at three levels: level of the transmitter, level of medium and level of the receiver. There are two types of barriers to communication. Those are internal barriers of communication and External Barriers of communication. Internal barriers of communication include Physical illness, mental illness, anger, prejudice/biases, lack of confidence in the speaker, distraction, mental detouring, and faulty transmission. External barriers of communication include Climatic conditions, noise, environmental conditions, time and distance, wrong choice of medium and semantic barriers. By following careful guidelines we can overcome form miscommunication like planning the speech, by knowing the receiver, listening more and speaking less, by taking care of our tongue and seeking feedback
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Gopi et al. (2016) studied this question.