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The way you can speak based on how familiar is the person you are talking to.

This is not the only Commented [DPG1]: Try to begin your text introducing
an idea in a simpler structure.
variable that can generate a change on how you drive to others, also the place or the context; it is
Commented [DPG2]: Don’t forget to add ‘it’ for
not the same to talk to an unknown person at a bar than in a bank. Leaving the place factor aside, impersonal sentences.

at least in Colombia, most people have 4 different ways:

1. To your couple/partner - family: Couples or family even develop their own languaje. People Commented [DPG3]: language

speaks respectfully and warm, but at the same time pretty confidence. You must avoid bad words Commented [DPG4]: confident (adj.)

with your couple/partner or family

2. Colleagues - boss: In Colombia, people is closer to their colleagues or bosses than in other Commented [DPG5]: are (plural nouns)

cultures, even they are considered friends (while good working environment exists). you should
be assertive with this group of persons, your job depends on how well you can relate with them.

3. very close friends: This is one of the most contradictorious kinds of speaking, because it could Commented [DPG6]: contradictories

result in the most offensive or aggressive. The closer is a friend, the worst words we throw at him. Commented [DPG7]: them (plural pronoun to mean
either ‘him’ or ‘her’.
In Colombia you can receive very bad words from your best friend ever, but of course, this is just
a way of speaking, you can’t take this seriously or literal.

4. Total stranger people: it Is the most (or maybe the only) formal way to speak to another person
in Colombia. You should avoid sarcasm, bad words, be direct and precise, being respectful with
the time and always showing good manners. Sadly, A lot of people had been injured just by do not Commented [DPG8]: Infinitive verb and not ‘ing’ noun,
because the sentence started with a modal verb (should).
speaking in an adequate way to a stranger. Be careful how you drive to an unknown person.

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