Tricia, working at a research facility in North Carolina, needs to communicate with Romain, who is in Grenoble, France, about a project they are working on. Romain has perfect command of English, but they are still facing a(n) ______ barrier to communication.

A. semantic
B. personal
C. encoding
D. medium
E. physical


E. physical

Physical barriers include sound, time, space, and the like. In this example, time and space may be a barrier because these people are several time zones apart.

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