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  • Hey guys, welcome back to Let's Talk, this is me Meera, your trainer for the day. What

  • do I have for you today? I have got something that a lot of people face problems with and

  • that is how to start or how to begin a conversation. Usually people end up with dead end questions.

  • You know what dead end questions are? Oh so you like this music. Yeah. What's after that?

  • It’s a dead end. There is no conversation and that is why people have so much trouble

  • actually conversing with someone or having a nice and a healthy conversation with anybody

  • and I'm going to help you figure out how to begin a conversation and it will naturally

  • flow into a long set of sentences, conversation in short, okay?

  • Now to begin with really, quickly, 'how do you know...?’ The reason why this is here

  • is because, imagine yourself at a party or at a, in any gathering or even a formal socializing

  • event and then you are invited by a common person. Only one person is hosting a party

  • or the event and that person has invited all of you so you can always go up to someone

  • and you can ask that person, ;Hey how do you know, Sam' Or 'How do you know Kim', right?

  • Now what will happen is eventually that person will tell you that 'Oh1 I know Kim from school

  • and that's why I am here" and they will ask you in return, oh how do you know Kim?' So

  • you, Oh she was my colleague last year, but she shifted to another company, but we are

  • still friends and that's why I'm here and that's how you can build up on that base,

  • that you have met together and you've met there at that event by just one single person

  • knowing the both of you so that's a great conversation starter you guys

  • Moving on from there, "what wheels you drive?" Now this conversation is a very, very common

  • conversation between two men, or two guys or two boys, of course above eighteen that

  • is when you are eligible to drive, that is. Okay you can always start your conversation

  • with, "Hey, what you like driving?" or what wheels do you drive?" That means you are asking

  • someone do you like this particular car or do you like a Jeep or a Volvo or a Mercedes

  • Benz, what is it that you enjoy driving? And that is how you can build conversation then

  • I will tell you what I usually end up driving. May be I have two cars one is for highway

  • or probably travelling from one city to another and slowly and surely you guys would have

  • met at a common point and then you would speak about it and then start your conversation

  • accordingly. Well now let's say that the person doesn't drive okay? Usually this is for a

  • car but what if that person doesn't drive? Then that person will tell you that "Um, actually

  • I don’t like driving so much but I love cycling or I love riding a bike and then again

  • you can start a conversation. What you need to make sure is that there is no dead end

  • question at any point of time, okay?

  • Let's move on, okay so let me just write here quickly, you can drive or ride, any option

  • is fine for a nice conversation. "You look familiar..." Hmm now this is something that

  • you can start a conversation with, there are lot of times when you feel that, "I have met

  • this person or I have seen this person somewhere, I've spoken to this person but I just cannot

  • recollect where exactly. Well don't you worry, if you have a good faith or if you have, if

  • you don't have anything wrong in your mind or incorrect in your mind, you can go there

  • with a very pleasant smile and ask that person, "You look familiar, you look like someone

  • I've met in my college, is your name Courtney? And probably that person will tell you that,

  • "Um no sorry this is not Courtney but Hi my name is Johnathan, and then you can, that’s

  • how you can start a conversation, okay? So you can say you look familiar, have we met

  • before? Okay?

  • Where do you come from? I personally think that this is a great question to begin any

  • conversation, why? Because usually it's a place or a city or even a country that really

  • excites the other person, Once you've said that Hey where do you come from? I'm from

  • Goa, okay? and then you can start saying Oh I love the beaches I've heard so much about

  • it or I've seen the images on Google and I think it's really awesome, what a great place,

  • How come you are here? I'm here for work I'm going to go back to Goa, would you like to

  • join me? See how the conversation is rolling into a nice and healthy talk with one another

  • you get to know new people and that is how you can make new friends. That is how things

  • move on in a conversation.

  • Moving on from there, Oh like I said before I miss out on anything, obviously when you

  • talk from when you talk about City prospective you can talk about food, music and so much

  • more and there is so much depth to this conversation Especially when you start with "where do you

  • come from?", okay? Now moving on, "Your Tee made me laugh." that means your T-shirt, Do

  • you know why I've put this here because these days T-shirts come with great one liner phrases

  • or really, really intelligent one liners or jokes or probably even images that’s difficult

  • to solve and once you get it, you are like "oh my god that is funny" Because of these

  • funny T-shirts you can always go like oh that was really funny let me go and compliment

  • this person so you can approach that person and say, "Hey, you know what, your T-shirt

  • made me laugh. I had come and talk to you." Okay? And that person will say thank you or

  • probably say something that you can start a conversation, Okay?

  • What a small world. Okay, you have met someone for the second time, this is for someone whom

  • you are going to meet again, what a small world, remember we had met at Kim's party?"

  • That is how you can put things together, alright? That is when you say, "oh, that's such a nice,

  • it's pleasure meeting you, what a small world." It's good to see you again, what a small world.

  • You are basically trying to say that here we go, here we meet again and I had thought

  • I would never meet you, okay?

  • Again next up we have, "what are you into?" Now this is usually about getting to know

  • people, what are their likes, dislikes, whether it's what you into what music are you into,

  • okay? Or what food are you into? What parties you usually attend? Or adventure sports, of

  • course. So sports and various activities and that is how you can then tell what do you

  • like doing, what do you like, do you like food, or do you like sports more and then

  • with this base you can continue your conversation.

  • Hey, Amazon or EBay. Now usually, you are someone who scrolls on Amazon or EBay quite

  • a lot and then you go out probably you see someone's phone or a T-shirt or a particular

  • bag and then you go like, hey is that Amazon or EBay? And there you go, that's a nice click,

  • they say that these days since all of us spend so much of time online, why not start a conversation

  • that is, when it comes to social media, or online, then the person will tell you whether

  • I actually got it on Amazon. You can always say that I remember seeing this on EBay I

  • was just about to buy it but then I forgot about. And that's how you can start yet again.

  • Moving from there we have, Looks like a great thing." Now instead of thing you can always

  • replace it with different things such as, looks like a great drink", okay? Looks like

  • a great Tie, maybe, Okay Tie, alright? Um and that is how you can complement someone

  • and yet start a conversation that Hey that's a great drink? What is it called? Oh maybe

  • even I will order one. Do you usually order this? And then you can continue.

  • Okay guys moving from here we have actually reached our last destination of the conversation

  • Phrases, What are you, what are your thoughts on?" Okay? What does this mean?, Now um you

  • probably have met someone and you have recently um there's some incident, there's some major

  • thing that has happened, it could be about literally about anything, about new phone

  • about new technology, about politics, about anything absolutely that you find is common

  • between the both of you. And then you can say, Hey, what’s your thoughts about that

  • phone?' or what do you think? Do you think we would actually end up going into space

  • all of us? Or what are your thoughts on... And you can add on whatever you feel is common

  • between you two, Well I would always talk to people about, Hey what are your thoughts

  • on long distance running or What are your thoughts on sports, or that do you like gym,

  • cycling, running, trekking? What's your choice? And that's how I start a conversation. Well

  • I welcome all of you in the comment section to stat a conversation and let's see where

  • it goes, let's see if all of have understood this lesson pretty well. You guys keep practicing

  • make sure that you write in comments, I will be back with another interesting topic for

  • you guys right here, until then keep smiling, spread lot of love this is me Meera signing

  • off for the day guys, ciao

Hey guys, welcome back to Let's Talk, this is me Meera, your trainer for the day. What

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