This post teaches how one could speak with enthusiasm and how this would help one become a great English speaker.
I’m sure almost everyone has experienced listening to speeches. It may be during our elementary or high school graduation given by the guest speakers or valedictorians, or during election campaign periods when politicians would recite a long list of promises to the voters, or even during special occasions like weddings and birthdays. Whatever the case may be, it all boils down to one thing...do you remember anything about their long, well-prepared for speeches? (Did you even listen?^^) If not, then their speeches were not effective. They might not have caught your attention. Most probably, you didn’t even care about what they were talking about. Most people who are asked to give speeches are those who are intelligent and those who can speak very well. So, what could probably have went wrong?
Speaking well does not only involve the right grammar, pronunciation, accent and proper use of words. A person might be good in all these aspects yet not many people would like to listen to what he has to say. Why? A good English speaker (or speaker for that matter), can catch and hold the attention of his/her listeners. How can he/she do this?Speak up!If you speak too softly, how in the world will people be able to hear clearly what you have to say? Do not expect the listeners to be the ones to exert effort in trying to understand you, if you’re the one who wants to convey a message.Be a singerListen to songs. A good song has soft and loud parts, slow and fast parts. The changes in the volume and the rhythm makes the tune catchy, nice to listen to and even easy to remember at times. We should speak the same way. We should not speak in a monotonous tone that would put the listeners to sleep. We should sometimes speak fast, speak slowly, speak softly and speak loudly, depending on the ideas we would like to get across.
Feel it
If you can’t feel what you say, why would you expect the message to have an impact to the ones listening? Whether you’re giving a speech, or taking an English exam, or answering a question, you should not sound as if you’re reading something from a very boring textbook. You should put more feelings into it. It’s not just the content that matters, it’s the delivery!
I’m sure almost everyone has experienced listening to speeches. It may be during our elementary or high school graduation given by the guest speakers or valedictorians, or during election campaign periods when politicians would recite a long list of promises to the voters, or even during special occasions like weddings and birthdays. Whatever the case may be, it all boils down to one thing...do you remember anything about their long, well-prepared for speeches? (Did you even listen?^^) If not, then their speeches were not effective. They might not have caught your attention. Most probably, you didn’t even care about what they were talking about. Most people who are asked to give speeches are those who are intelligent and those who can speak very well. So, what could probably have went wrong?
Speaking well does not only involve the right grammar, pronunciation, accent and proper use of words. A person might be good in all these aspects yet not many people would like to listen to what he has to say. Why? A good English speaker (or speaker for that matter), can catch and hold the attention of his/her listeners. How can he/she do this?Speak up!If you speak too softly, how in the world will people be able to hear clearly what you have to say? Do not expect the listeners to be the ones to exert effort in trying to understand you, if you’re the one who wants to convey a message.Be a singerListen to songs. A good song has soft and loud parts, slow and fast parts. The changes in the volume and the rhythm makes the tune catchy, nice to listen to and even easy to remember at times. We should speak the same way. We should not speak in a monotonous tone that would put the listeners to sleep. We should sometimes speak fast, speak slowly, speak softly and speak loudly, depending on the ideas we would like to get across.
Feel it
If you can’t feel what you say, why would you expect the message to have an impact to the ones listening? Whether you’re giving a speech, or taking an English exam, or answering a question, you should not sound as if you’re reading something from a very boring textbook. You should put more feelings into it. It’s not just the content that matters, it’s the delivery!
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