To be a good talker, you need to be a good listener. Careful listening makes you a better talker when it is your \_11\_. You will be able to come up with good follow-up questions. This will show to people whom you are conversing with \_12\_ you take an interest in their words. People get perplexed or even annoyed when you ask them questions but do not \_13\_ to listen to their answers. The best conversationalists are those who are curious about everything. They are good at listening, have broad horizons, and always end up learning something new. It is only natural that people you talk to show far more interest in themselves and their problems than they \_14\_ in you and your problems. You can learn to show \_15\_ for them, relating to what they are feeling as well as what they are saying. If you cannot listen well to people, you have no reason to expect them to listen any better to you.