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What is communication? Sender, message and receiver — Communication skills for students

Communication means sharing ideas, facts and feelings so that someone else understands them. Every message has five parts: the sender who has an idea, the message itself, the channel it travels by (talking, a note, a phone call), the receiver who gets it, and the feedback — a nod, a reply or a question — that shows whether it was understood. When Riya posts a birthday card to Kabir, Riya is the sender, the card’s words are the message, the post is the channel and Kabir is the receiver.

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Communication tip

Sent is not enough — understood is the goal — “a message works only when the receiver gets what you meant”

  1. Sender = who has the idea and sends it; message = what is shared; channel = how it travels (face to face, phone call, letter, text message, notice board).
  2. Receiver = who gets it (the listener, the reader, the audience); feedback = the reply that shows it was understood (a nod, “got it”, an answer).
  3. The order: think of an idea → put it into words → send it by a channel → the receiver gets it → the receiver replies.

Use it for: Talking with family, notes and messages, class answers, phone calls and any time a message gets mixed up.

Worked example: 📡 Which part of communication is a phone call? → the channel

  1. A phone call is HOW the message travels from the sender to the receiver.
  2. So it is the channel.

Check: Try it: at dinner, tell someone a short message and ask them to say it back — did the receiver get what the sender meant? ✓

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