Interaction

A few days ago, I had lunch with a professor in the department of English Literature. He was from Canada, and I treated him with lunch since he wrote the letter of recommendation for me. We went to a taco restaurant near the university in which I had never eaten before.
Well, we ordered two tacos with lemonade, and it was just fine. The food was not the problem at all.
  The professor didn't seem to have any problems conveying his ideas and sentiment toward various kinds of topics to me. However, I had a bit of communication problems. I could not actually think of an expression that I really to wanted to get across. So I made use of paraphrasing, circumlocution, and sometimes direct translation from Korean to English. Luckily, the professor also knew some Korean since his wife was Korean also.
   We talked about this and that and how the university has changed in the recent ten years. He asserted that a lot of foreign exchange students are coming to the university to delve into K-pop and the Korean culture. He asked about my opinion, and I told him that I looked at it in a positive way. Diversity incites progression, and progression leads to distribution of resources that could have been consumed vainly.
   The most important lesson I learned from the conversation was that interaction was invaluable when your communication tactics break down. Thus, body gestures and facial expression are not to be neglected in any communication. No wonder you can't improve your overall conversation ability if you don't have someone to talk to.