Dave Coyne [The Language Barrier]

Title: The Language Barrier
Theme: Language and Communication

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Dave Coyne is an independent filmmaker having millions of viewers on YouTube.com. He is very famous for bringing laughs to the viewers with the combination of his imagination, cinematic skills, and acting. The short clip above is Dave Coyne interviewing Professor Goshkevski at the studio of "TLB Host." Prof. Goshkevski's role in the clip is a leading authority and behavioral scientist. He has written a book about balancing the races. However, he is viewed as a hypocrat and a racist because of his accents. Although he talks about juice and nickers, it sounds as if he is talking about the Jews and the N-word. At first, Dave Coyne is lost because Prof. Goshkevski brings up racial comments, which Dave Coyne does not expect to hear from Prof. G. The purpose of this video is to realize that the language barrier is near us; there can be a miscommunication even with a scholar. The audience is everyone: Americans, the newly arrived immigrants, and the settled immigrants. In the end, the audience realizes that the only way to avoid miscommunication is to listen till the person finishes the sentence and ask until one thoroughly understands the other. This is very important because America is full of immigrants whose first language is not English. In order to live with one another, we should try to understand each other.