"Books also help you develop your knowledge," he continued, "but vocabulary is the basic thing that we can improve if you want to not only make a good impression under any circumstances but also to express yourselves even better, make yourself understood so that you can always make it simple and clean to those around you.
On the way out of his office, Pichai wonders out loud how Google might make itself better understood in Europe.
He said Chinese oil companies still had ground to cover to make themselves better understood by investors, potential host countries and partners.
"Hopefully, this project will help make us better understood," said Sorrel Bowman-Rogers, president and chief executive of the Family Service Agency in Phoenix, which participated in the survey.
Nevertheless, he stops short of concluding that it is a "universal" or "hard-wired" feature of language, rather than a strategy that humans have developed over time to make themselves better understood.
He took steps to make it better understood.
For the Chinese, it is even more imperative that we make ourselves better understood by the rest of the world.
Cognitive debriefing of the drafted GQL-15-CHI was performed on 20 patients with glaucoma to test their understanding and interpretation of the questionnaire, and two items were modified to make them better understood.
You can't be expert at everything and in trying to be so, you risk shutting off learning from the perspectives and ideas of other people that you can always keep building on to make yourself a better person and to understand the world more fully.
The goal of making human rights better understood and more widely valued is, of course, crucial.
Creating and operationalizing such a pedagogy requires a school culture where playfulness is celebrated, examined, made visible, and better understood as a powerful pathway of learning.
