๐ Expressive Speakers: Why Americans Use So Many Gestures
์ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ธ ์ฌ๋๋ค์ ๋งํ ๋ ์ ์ค์ฒ๋ฅผ ๋ง์ด ์ธ๊น?
Sometimes, my Korean students are surprised at how expressive American speakers can be. We often move our hands a lot when we talk, use a wide range of facial expressions, and nod or shake our heads while listening. This is simply part of American culture and the way we communicate. Itโs partly because many Americans are outgoing and donโt mind standing out. In fact, we tend to celebrate individuality.
๊ฐ๋ ํ๊ตญ์ธ ํ์๋ค์ด ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์ฌ๋๋ค์ ํ๋ถํ ํํ์ ๊น์ง ๋๋ผ์. ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์ฌ๋๋ค์ ๋ํํ ๋ ์์ ๋ง์ด ์์ง์ด๊ณ , ๋ค์ํ ํ์ ์ ์ง๊ณ , ๋ค์ ๋ ๊ณ ๊ฐ๋ฅผ ๋๋์ด๊ฑฐ๋ ํ๋ค๊ณค ํด์. ์ด๊ฑด ๊ทธ๋ฅ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๋ฌธํ์ ์ผ๋ถ์ด๊ณ ์ํตํ๋ ๋ฐฉ์์ด์์. ๋ง์ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ธ์ด ์ธํฅ์ ์ด๊ณ ๋์ ๋๋ ๊ฑธ ๊บผ๋ฆฌ์ง ์๊ธฐ ๋๋ฌธ์ด๊ธฐ๋ ํ ๊ฒ ๊ฐ์์. ๊ฐ์ฑ์ ์กด์คํ๋ ๊ฒฝํฅ์ด ์๋ ๊ฒ๋ ํ๋ชซํ๊ณ ์.
Having a unique speaking style can help you stand out from the crowd. It also makes conversations more lively and engaging. Americans really enjoy being energetic and having fun when catching up with friends.
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ํนํ ๋งํฌ๋ ์ฌ๋๋ค ์์์ ๋์ ๋ ์ ์์ด์. ์ด๋ฐ ํํ๋ค์ ๋ํ๋ฅผ ๋ ํ๊ธฐ์ฐจ๊ณ ํฅ๋ฏธ๋กญ๊ฒ ๋ง๋ค์ด ์ฃผ๊ธฐ๋ ํ๊ณ ์. ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์ฌ๋๋ค์ ์น๊ตฌ๋ค๊ณผ ์ด์ผ๊ธฐํ ๋ ํ๊ธฐ์ฐจ๊ณ ์ฌ๋ฏธ์๊ฒ ๋
ธ๋ ๊ฑธ ์ ๋ง ์ข์ํด์.
Americans also tend to have a more competitive communication style. Instead of always waiting for someone to finish speaking, we sometimes interrupt or jump in. If your timing is right, this isnโt considered rude. In these situations, certain gestures show the group that you have something to add.
๋ ์ฝ๊ฐ ๊ฒฝ์์ ์ธ ๋ํ ์คํ์ผ์ ๊ฐ์ง๋ ๊ฒฝํฅ๋ ์์ด์. ์๋์ ๋ง์ด ๋๋ ๋๊น์ง ๋ ๊ธฐ๋ค๋ฆฌ๊ธฐ๋ณด๋ค๋, ๋๋๋ก ๋ง์ ๋๊ฑฐ๋ ์ค๊ฐ์ ๋ผ์ด๋ค์ด์. ํ์ด๋ฐ์ด ์ ๋ง๋๋ค๋ฉด ์ด๋ฐ ํ๋์ ๋ฌด๋กํ๋ค๊ณ ์๊ฐํ์ง ์์์. ์ด๋ฐ ์ํฉ์์๋ ํน์ ํ ์ ์ค์ฒ๋ก ๋ด๊ฐ ํ ๋ง์ด ์๋ค๋ ๊ฑธ ์ฌ๋๋ค์๊ฒ ์๋ ค์ค์.
Furthermore, America is a melting pot of cultures, made up of people from many different backgrounds. Sometimes this leads to language or cultural barriers. To avoid misunderstandings, Americans often rely on clear, obvious gestures instead of subtle hints. Weโd rather get our point across directly than risk someone misunderstanding what we mean.
๊ฒ๋ค๊ฐ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ ๋ค์ํ ๋ฐฐ๊ฒฝ์ ๊ฐ์ง ์ฌ๋๋ค์ด ๋ชจ์ธ ๋ฌธํ์ ์ธ ์ฉ๊ด๋ก์ด๊ธฐ๋ ํ์ฃ . ์ด๋ฐ ๋ค์์ฑ ๋๋ฌธ์ ์ธ์ด์ , ๋ฌธํ์ ์ฅ๋ฒฝ์ด ์๊ธฐ๊ธฐ๋ ํด์. ์คํด๋ฅผ ํผํ๊ณ ์ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์ฌ๋๋ค์ ๋ฏธ๋ฌํ ํํธ ๋์ ๋ช
ํํ๊ณ ๋ถ๋ช
ํ ์ ์ค์ฒ๋ฅผ ์จ์. ์ฐ๋ฆฌ์ ๋ป์ ๋๊ตฐ๊ฐ ์คํดํ๋ ๊ฒ๋ณด๋ค๋ ์ฐจ๋ผ๋ฆฌ ์ง์ ์ ์ผ๋ก ์ ๋ฌํ๋ ค๋ ํธ์ด์์.
So while Koreans might be more reserved and rely on subtle social cues, Americans are generally louder and use expressive gestures to communicate more clearly.
๊ทธ๋์ ํ๊ตญ ์ฌ๋๋ค์ ์ข ๋ ์กฐ์ฉํ๊ณ ๋ฏธ๋ฌํ ์ฌํ์ ์ ํธ๋ฅผ ๋ง์ด ํ์ฉํ๋ ๋ฐ๋ฉด, ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์ฌ๋๋ค์ ๋ณดํต ๋ ํ๋ฐํ๊ณ ํํ์ด ํ๋ถํ ์ ์ค์ฒ๋ก ๋ช
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