Do you think you understand to body language?

Well it is hard to say, if you know someone relly good you leran how to read that body languaje, and also there are some people that can show you with their bodylanguaje how they feel or what they are thinking even if you do nor know them. I remember one time someone told me that if some is talking to you and touch his or her nos that mean that person is lying...

I can not say that I understand all body language, but I can understand some from the way they gesture. Body language is a silent and good language for people who can not understand their mother tongue to make people understand each other well. Properly used, it can be of great help while misunderstanding the body language can also bring about some bad effects. Therefore body language is also a great learning for us.

Some people think they can detect truth or lies by watching body movement and to some extent this is true, but I do not believe that for every single person a particular gesture means the same thing. A fellow teacher was once convinced that a student was inattentive because he would not look her straight in the eye, but this fellow came from a culture where it is considered rude to make eye contact with your "superiors" so he was just being polite. In other cases, someone might seem shifty eyed because of a slight handicap, or seem to be slouching because of a sore muscle. There are invisible signals that pass between people though and sometimes I can tell if someone is lying from watching them in a TV interview or reading a letter they have written or hearing them talk on the phone.