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What are verbal and non verbal communication?

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Verbal communication uses words. Non-verbal communication are the ways we communicate without words, such as smiling, gesturing, and touching.

Things like e-mail and SMS are considered verbal communication, because they use words, even though the words are written rather than spoken.

This question and answer is therefore a form of verbal communication.

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