The ways of overcoming misunderstanding cross-cultural communication

The article is devoted to the problem of misunderstanding in intercultural communication. The article explores the essence of the phenomenon of cross-cultural communication – а communication between representatives of different cultures providing for direct contacts between people and their communities. Based on the analysis of the main factors of misunderstanding in intercultural communication, among which assumption of similarities, language differences, nonverbal misinterpretation, preconceptions and stereotypes, tendency to evaluate, high anxiety, the ways of solving this problem have been proposed. It is justified in the paper that the formation of intercultural tolerance occupies an important place in solving the problem of misunderstanding in cross-cultural communication. The basic educational foundations of this process, including general acquaintance with the country, studying its language and cultural features are determined and justified.