I started an online school to spread Jewish life wisdom anchored in Chabad Chassidus after leaving Israel at the end of last September and arriving at this new place soon aferwards. Recently I've decided to expand the existing menu of four courses and two types of life coaching by adding a third type of coaching - communication coaching.
While working with what few students and coaching clients I've had, I felt that some of them and potential clients like them have to improve their emotional intelligence first before improving their spiritual intelligence.
Before I starting this communication coaching, I thought erroneously that communication skills would be linguistic skills and some technical skills. What I've discovered can't be more distant from this. Linguistic skills constitute only a small part of communication skills. The latter are far broader and more complicated, which also makes them far more fascinating. Though excellent linguistic skills may be a minimal requirement for becoming an excellent communicator, they are far from being sufficient.
Now I'm convinced that everyone should acquire communication skills in parallel with the study of the first and foreign languages. In general, these skills are universal in that they can be applied to communication in any language though some sociocultural adjustments may have to be made to each language with its idiosyncratic sociocultural norms.
If I've succeeded in kindling your interest in the acquisition and/or improvement of communication skills, please allow me to recommend you the amazing book I use as the basis for my new communication coaching - Messages: The Communication Skills Book by Matthew McKay et al. This book has been translated into many other languages, including, for example, Russian - Как сказать: Главная книга по развитию коммуникативных навыков.