Grammatically correct speech- the key to success in life. After all, people are judged not only by their clothes, but also by their ability to correctly convey thoughts and write correctly. A person who knows how to express his thoughts simply, concisely and clearly, and construct sentences correctly, is always perceived more positively. Interlocutors, listening to competent speech, automatically assign a completely different, more high level life competence.
Have you ever lost or not gotten a job because large quantity writing mistakes or needing to clearly explain why you are the right person for the job? The development of competent speech is one of the basic tasks of every self-respecting person. Even if you don't speak in public, the ability to speak beautifully and clearly is valued by everyone. So, how to develop competent speech?
Read fiction
Reading quality fiction can hardly be called a waste of time. IN modern world We are exposed to a very large flow of information, mainly listening to the news or reading it on the Internet. But the Internet, entertaining reading and business literature cannot replace good books by recognized domestic and foreign authors.
Reading novels helps to intuitively write correct, beautiful sentences and develops a sense of language. By reading fiction and scientific articles in special publications, a person expands his horizons and vocabulary. If you want to make your speech more lively and imaginative, read poetry. Give yourself rhythm, metaphors and figures of speech that you would like to use.
Use dictionaries
Look for new words. If you hear or read a word whose meaning is unfamiliar to you, feel free to take a dictionary and find out what it means. The origin of words is very interesting science. What if this becomes one of your hobbies?
In addition to the usual dictionary, there are dictionaries of metaphors, foreign words, special terms, even dictionaries dedicated to a particular science. Use them all - and your vocabulary will begin to grow quickly. You can always find the most accurate word and apply it in conversation.
Play educational games
As you know, children acquire almost all their knowledge of language before the age of seven. A child develops competent speech with the help of the people around him. There are also many games and techniques that allow you to develop your imagination, expand your vocabulary and learn to speak beautifully.
If possible, listen to yourself from the outside. Make an audio or video recording of your voice. If you are afraid to speak into a voice recorder or get an inaccurate result, ask someone close to you to record you during a normal conversation.
Evaluate your speech. Competent speech is always free from all unnecessary things. How accurately did you convey your message to others? Was she clear? Could it have been said shorter, clearer, more understandable? Are you pausing in the wrong places? Are you constructing your sentences correctly? Are your thoughts confused, are you jumping from thought to thought, confusing your listeners?
Watch the accents. Incorrect accents (call, jalousie and other tricky words, of which there are many in the Russian language) reveal an illiterate and ill-mannered person. There are two options: do not use these words or open the dictionary, textbooks and remember them firmly.
Edit what you've written
Have you written a letter, a message to a friend, a report to management or an artistic essay? Whatever it is, review the text as carefully as possible and try to give it a critical assessment. This is great speech training. If you practice “cleaning” your writing, you will see results very soon. Besides, Speaking will also change significantly!
Once you've written something, try to "switch" to something else (at least go and make yourself a cup of tea), and then return to the text with fresh eyes. Imagine that this is someone else's text. Does it have errors? How accurately is the thought expressed? Is everything clear to you as an outside reader? Is it possible to formulate this idea more clearly and concisely?
Correct speech and competent speech are always bright, expressive and understandable. Get rid of words that don't mean anything semantic load. They often take up a third of the text, which is why your idea definitely loses. If you can use a simpler and shorter word, use it. You can also try reading it out loud (be sure to do this if you are preparing a speech that you will give).
Develop your voice
Not only grammatically and lexically correct speech is important for communication. Proper communication also includes using your voice. If you have applied all the methods outlined above, but at the same time express your thoughts in a monotonous voice, devoid of any intonation, listening to you will be unpleasant and not very interesting.
It's worth developing your voice. Do exercises, listen to speakers and try to repeat after them. Sign up for a public speaking course. Even with little effort, the results will please you, and your interlocutors will stop yawning.
Results
Competent speech is not given at birth. You need to work on this constantly, throughout your life. But even if you devote very little effort and time to developing your speech, reading will become your good habit - more interesting and successful life you are guaranteed.
The ability to speak beautifully will be useful to every person, regardless of profession. Interlocutors always react positively to a well-developed voice, good diction, well-constructed phrases and justified intonations. We master the introduction to the art of rhetoric.
Among the professions in demand in Lately, most are based on the ability to speak beautifully and correctly. Lawyers, politicians, announcers on numerous television and radio channels, teachers, those who work with clients - in short, representatives of a huge number successful people must speak in such a way that they are listened to, listened to, and admired.
Therefore, working on your speech includes three main areas:
- diction training (clear pronunciation);
- work on the technique and content of speech;
- increasing your vocabulary and speech development.
In addition to verbal (verbal), there are non-verbal means of speech: intonation, facial expressions, communication with gaze, etc. True, these means will begin to “work” if the main tool - your beautiful speech - bears fruit.
The correctness of speech, the clarity of the origin of vowels and consonants, changes in intonation, emphasis in voice - all these characteristics of your speech will help you influence almost any person, win them over, convince them that you are right or that they need to continue further cooperation with you.
Diction training
You need to start your workout with proper breathing. If you breathe incorrectly, this can lead to a break in your voice, prolonged pauses, and a distortion of the meaning of the phrase. Therefore, during public speaking, speakers do not use ordinary breathing, but speech breathing. Normal breathing may simply not be enough, so it is important to learn how to use air correctly and restore it in time. In this case, use diaphragm breathing. It is developed through a whole system of breathing training, but it requires persistence and a lot of patience.
- Record your reading of any text on a voice recorder.
- Listen to the resulting recording.
- Let others listen to it.
- Compare your opinion and someone else's.
- Highlight the main disadvantages.
The most common pronunciation errors are:
- incorrect pronunciation of vowel sounds in a weak position (without stress);
- “eating” individual consonant sounds;
- loss of vowel sounds;
- incorrect combination of consonant sounds when they are connected;
- unclear pronunciation of hissing and whistling sounds;
- mispronunciation soft sounds etc.
It is advisable to correct diction with the help of specialists. Now there are many organizations where speech therapists work. Of course, the classes are mainly designed for children, but you can take private lessons to quickly achieve the desired effect.
All classes should begin with exercises to relax the muscles responsible for correct articulation. It is better to follow a certain sequence of exercises. You need to start the exercises with the simplest ones, gradually moving on to more complex ones. You need to exercise every day. Proceed to the next exercise only after the previous one has been fully mastered. Every day you need to set new goals and objectives. The achieved results need to be maintained from time to time by repeating the basic exercises.
Working on the content and technique of your speech
One of the common speech mistakes is speaking too quickly. When a person is in a hurry, as they say, chattering, it is difficult to perceive him. You need to learn to control the pace of your speech. To begin with, you can pronounce at a very slow pace some speech material that does not require special understanding. This could be a sequence of numbers, for example, up to one hundred, names of months, cities or countries, a list of male or female names.
It is better to write down this sequence so that you can pronounce the words directly and reverse order. Over time, having memorized this sequence, it is better to reproduce it from memory, simultaneously training your memory. Then you need to move on to repeating the text by ear. Moreover, it should be recorded at a fast pace, but it will need to be repeated at a slow pace.
How to “put” a voice
Of course, the term “voice production” applies more to musicians, actors and other creative professions. It means that you need to train your voice strength, range and timbre. The power of your voice can be trained by loudly and clearly pronouncing texts of various types: poems, fables, odes, prose poems.
The range can be expanded if you pronounce a variety of text exercises in the highest or lowest tones. In this case, the voice should ideally become higher or lower, depending on the final goal. The timbre of the voice depends on overtones, that is, on an additional tone that sounds like a kind of echo. An overtone appears when sound is reflected from the wall of a natural resonator (your own skull, chest cavity, larynx, etc.).
Speech development
Unfortunately, modern people They become more and more tongue-tied, cannot express thoughts correctly, and are confused about the meanings of words. There are many reasons for this.
Firstly, they read little now, as they spend more time in front of a computer monitor or TV screen.
Secondly, too few samples of literate speech are heard. It’s no secret that even from a TV screen you rarely hear examples of correct and beautiful speech. There is no need to talk about radio stations at all: DJs communicate with radio listeners in the same way as they are used to communicating with friends - pouring out their speech slang words and expressions.
Thirdly, they rarely watch theatrical productions. After all, the theater requires a special style of clothing, you need to behave culturally, the most important thing is to understand the content of individual mise-en-scenes, the complexity of the characters’ characters. All this requires extra effort from people, so it’s much easier to go to the movies, eat popcorn and laugh.
However, if you are firmly convinced that your speech is characterized by a poor vocabulary, an abundance of speech errors and incorrect sentence construction, and you intend to learn how to command the attention of the audience, then you simply urgently need to start working on your own speech.
Learning to speak beautifully
So, here are tips that will help you learn to master beautiful and competent speech.
1. Build sentences correctly
Illiterate and monotonous speech is primarily revealed by incorrectly constructed sentences. When a person painfully selects words to continue the thought he has begun, makes long pauses, and as a result receives a “clumsy” thought, this indicates that he does not have the technique of correctly constructing sentences.
To learn how to structure correctly, you need to start with written exercises, writing down interesting thoughts, observations, and aphorisms in a separate notebook. In the future, immediately before the performance, you need to compose the text in advance on paper, retelling it according to ready plan, repeating individual expressions.
You can generally keep a diary (this is fashionable, judging by TV series like “The Diary of Doctor Zaitseva” and similar ones), recording your impressions of the day, some of your observations, reasoning. All this contributes to the development of speech in general, and the correct construction of sentences in particular.
2. Increase your vocabulary
Poverty of speech reveals a meager vocabulary. If a person expresses his assessments, judgments, comments in the same words, this indicates that it is difficult for him to express his thoughts due to lack of knowledge. Therefore, such speech makes a repulsive impression, and the person himself will not have authority, especially among those who are fluent in speech.
Agree, in our time, say, a tongue-tied school principal is nonsense. He simply will not be able to speak in front of teachers, which means he will not be able to gain authority either among his colleagues or among the students of his own school. After all, even illiterate students understand that teachers, and even more so the director, must be literate in every sense of the word.
How to diversify your speech? Of course, first of all, work with an explanatory dictionary. Having heard a word that is new to you, you need to find its meaning in the dictionary, write it down and remember it. Moreover, you need to remember a word only in context, that is, in a sentence. Used without context, a word may be incomprehensible or perceived with a distorted meaning.
It’s a good idea to at least solve crosswords or scanword puzzles, because they also give the meanings of words, sometimes in an allegorical or ironic sense, which helps to learn to understand the polysemy of a word. It is also important to read articles in various magazines - not just glossy ones.
For example, reading economic news will help you understand the financial and legal fields and will significantly enrich your speech with terms from these areas. If you are interested in medicine, even by watching programs like “Live Healthy” and similar ones, you can understand many medical concepts, ranging from a basic injection to highly specialized terms.
By reading articles on psychology, you can expand your vocabulary with a wide variety of modern concepts, because now almost everyone is either his own psychologist or his own doctor. Ideally, it is better to expand your social circle. After all, by maintaining relationships with lawyers, specialists in the field of IT technologies, doctors, teachers, etc., you will, wittingly or unwittingly, hear words that are new to you, gradually starting to understand their meaning, and then introducing them into your own speech.
3. Learn to highlight the main thing
Attention to detail is good for observation. But, especially in public ones, excessive detail can lead to weakening interest and boredom. Therefore, it is important to learn how to compress any information. By using computer programs Compressing the amount of information is quite simple. How to do this with text?
You need to learn to control the pace of speech so that you have time to stop before you blurt out something like that. Let it be better to have a short pause than “booing” and “backing”. This requires self-discipline and constant self-control from a person, but the result is certainly worth such sacrifices.
5. Expand your speaking practice
Now, in the age of testing and copying ready-made homework assignments, it is rarely possible to give a monologue speech. This is why former schoolchildren and students later come to work tongue-tied. Therefore, if you set yourself the goal of learning to speak correctly, it is important to use all opportunities for public speaking.
Oral answers in class, speeches at various scientific and practical conferences, speeches in front of classmates, on stage - all this will not only help you become self-confident, but will also force you to speak coherently, competently, and convincingly.
Of course, reading classic fiction or popular science literature will also help, because you can always give examples from books or modern reality. And nothing makes a speech more convincing than bringing a large number of arguments.
Use gestures that will make you feel more comfortable when in front of an audience, and the right associations will be evoked by listeners. If at first you speak, looking at your notes, then frequent and lengthy speeches will soon help you feel confident even during direct communication with the audience or a certain circle of people.
The ability to express oneself competently lies not only in the lexical compatibility of words and the correct placement of stress. It is necessary to learn to highlight the main thing from a large amount of information.
Imagine that you are watching an interesting TV series that your friends have been telling you about so enthusiastically. After the tenth episode, the most interesting part begins, and the producer, as luck would have it, stretched out this moment and hid the climax behind a bunch of unnecessary details. After a few more episodes, you will stop watching and switch to a more informative film.
The same thing happens with speech. Opponents are not interested in hearing a story with a lot of minute details. The story should be concise and logically connected. Boring repels interlocutors and kills interest.
Step #2. Increase your vocabulary
Avoid using words whose meaning you do not understand. An explanatory dictionary will help you expand your knowledge of Russian speech. If the meaning of foreign words is unknown, refer to the World Wide Web. Such actions not only help to express oneself in a variety of ways, but also contribute to joining different segments of the population. After a month regular practice you will be able to find a common language with teachers, dancers and professors. Make it a habit to learn the meaning of 3-4 words a day. It is important to learn, understand and remember the aspects learned.
Eliminate words that do not carry any semantic meaning. These include “not the month of May.” May is a specific period called a month. It cannot be a year or an hour. Also common examples that do not represent separate information are considered to be “step back”, “raise up”, etc.
Step #4. Retell the information received
Psychologists advise standing in front of a mirror and talking to the reflection. Of course, this technique makes sense to try. But there is another way that allows a person to learn literacy. Once a week, gather your friends together (at least 4-5 people) and retell to them the knowledge you have previously acquired. Have you watched an interesting movie? Highlight the essence and try to present the plot in an interesting, concise manner, without unnecessary preludes.
Watch the audience's reaction. If listeners yawn, lower their eyes, or ask questions that are not related to the topic, they are bored. In this case, you have 2 options: independently analyze what exactly you did wrong, or contact your opponents directly. A common mistake The new “retellers” are the excessive use of pronouns instead of calling the characters by name.
Step #5. Avoid tautology
A tautology is a figure of speech when a speaker uses words that are close in meaning or have the same root. Such phrases make it difficult to understand, so they should be avoided. An example of a tautology can be considered “oil oil” or “similar analogue”. Remember, this rule is fundamental to competent speech.
To learn how to select appropriate words, you can watch announcers on radio or TV, and then analyze their mistakes. People who have a main job should take a closer look at the remote activity of writing articles. Copywriting forces you to select words that are identical in meaning but different in pronunciation.
Step #6. read books
Classical literature is rightfully considered a model of artistic speech. Unconsciously, you will begin to adopt words and expressions from books that are ideal for a certain situation. Don't expect that 15 minutes of reading every day will make your speech literate. This process must be allocated at least 2-4 hours a day.
After a month, the information you read will make itself felt, you will no longer experience difficulties in choosing words and constructing sentences. People who learn through mastering fiction are called well-read. This happens for the reason that a person begins to express himself in words that he once learned and learned at the subconscious level.
Step #7. Watch your speech
There are a lot of slangs in the Russian language that are intended for specific situations. In formal settings and during public speaking in front of upper strata the population needs to use professional vocabulary. When talking with friends or “ordinary” people, you should give preference to youth slang. Regarding expressive jargon, avoid it altogether. The words “hut”, “bucks”, “car” do not intersect with literate speech in any way.Video: how to learn to speak beautifully
Valued in any society. It is easier for a person who knows how to correctly and competently compose a dialogue to find a job, get promoted up the career ladder, and make new acquaintances. People around him listen to him more often; his monologue never seems inappropriate or stupid.
But the paradox is that in order for others to perceive you as an intelligent and educated person, it is enough to expand your vocabulary by only about fifty words. It is enough to use some for communication in order to appear in the eyes of others as an extraordinary, creative person.
The art of competent communication
It will not be difficult to master this vocabulary if you wish. Much more important will be a confident voice, clear diction and the appropriateness of using certain words. Surely you have encountered a situation in life when a person, conducting a dialogue, tries with all his might to use abstruse words to communicate, sometimes using them completely out of place and in the wrong inflection. Such attempts look ridiculous and funny. To prevent this from happening to you, armed with a vocabulary for all occasions, do not be lazy to find out exact value words, their synonyms and antonyms, declension, gender and stress. This is the only way you will be able to use them correctly and competently in conversation.
Getting rid of banality
The first thing you should do is try to minimize the use of hackneyed expressions and words that you use in your everyday life. For example, a banal set of words like “good”, “beautiful”, “smart”, etc. can be replaced with less hackneyed, alternative options, because each of them can be accessed using explanatory dictionary choose at least a dozen synonyms.
For example, the word “beautiful”, depending on the situation, can be replaced with “bright”, “elegant”, “luxurious”, “incomparable”, “magnificent”, “delightful”. “Useful” in everyday conversation can easily be used as “beneficial”, “fruitful”, “expedient”, “practical”, “necessary”. Even to a simple word"smart" has many synonyms. You should remember and appeal to them as necessary. Here are some of them: “witty”, “resourceful”, “smart”, “good”, “wise”, “smart”.
It also doesn’t hurt to learn a few that will help you create the desired effect on others:
Idiosyncrasy - intolerance.
Transcendental - abstract, mental, theoretical.
Esoterics is a mystical teaching.
A truism is a well-known fact, statement or opinion.
Euphemism is the replacement of harsh, rude words and expressions with more acceptable and soft ones.
Sophistry is the ability to argue sharply, to skillfully juggle words.
Eclecticism is a combination of different types of theories, views or things.
Homogeneous - homogeneous.
Invective - swearing, obscene language.
Decadence is decline.
Hyperbole is an exaggeration.
Frustration is disappointment.
Discourse - conversation, conversation.
At first, when using smart words to communicate, you may experience some awkwardness in the conversation; your language will seem to get tangled and stumble over “new expressions.” It's not scary, it's new conversational form, like a new pair of shoes, should be broken in. After a while, you will, without thinking, choose better synonyms and expressions to express your opinion.
Speech-clogging expressions
The most difficult part of this process may be learning to notice them in your own speech. If you cannot notice them on your own, you may need the help of loved ones with whom you often communicate, or a voice recorder. At the next stage, you should learn to either skip them or replace them with smart words for communication; to consolidate the result, you also need to periodically listen to your own monologue recorded on a voice recorder. In the process of mastering the organization and production of your own speech, try to speak thoughtfully, logically constructing each phrase; this is the only way, after some time, you will be able to master the art of competently conducting a dialogue.
By learning to clearly structure sentences, using smart words to communicate, and getting rid of expressions that clog your speech, you will be able to make an excellent impression, because the more competently a person speaks, the more intelligent and successful he seems to his interlocutors.
Many consider competent speech to be a talent that is given to a select few and is necessary only in some areas of activity. In fact, everyone should think about how to develop speech. After all, good diction makes you listen to to the talking person and trust his opinion more. In addition, such a skill often contributes to career growth, especially if to perform job responsibilities you need to communicate with people often.
Basic techniques and exercises for speech development
Below we present the most effective exercises to improve diction. Clear speech and a well-trained voice are the result of long and hard work on oneself. Therefore, it is necessary to perform these exercises regularly, and not occasionally, because this is the only way you will make progress in the development of your speech.
Warm-up for the articulatory apparatus
Before performing any exercises aimed at developing diction, short warm-ups will help you to prepare yourself for clarity of pronunciation. One of her options is to tightly clench a pencil with your teeth and say a phrase approximately 10-15 words long. Then take out the pencil and say the same phrase again. In order not to think about choosing a text every time, you can use any poem when performing this exercise.
Exercises aimed at improving their mobility and accuracy will also help you begin to speak better and strengthen the muscles of the organs involved in the speech process. After all, these are the characteristics that are required for the development of diction and high-quality pronunciation of sounds.
As you know, the most mobile organ of articulation is the tongue. Therefore, most of gymnastics is connected with it. There are many exercises, the regular implementation of which will eliminate the need to think about the question of how to develop speech. For example, you can stick out your tongue and try to reach it first to the chin, and then to the nose. Or, as if using a brush, use smooth movements to draw lines from the teeth to the larynx.
Pronouncing phrases with artificially complicated articulation
Tongue twisters for developing diction are considered a classic training option. With their help, you can practice clearly pronouncing different consonants in a calm environment. To achieve excellent results, it is enough to devote at least 5-10 minutes to exercise every day. However, to develop good diction there is one thing important rule: Each phrase must be pronounced at a slow, medium and very fast pace.
You can start training with the most simple sentences which teach you to clearly pronounce one or two sounds. For example, these could be:
There are also more complex phrases that help you understand how to learn to speak words clearly and quickly, in which the pronunciation of two or more sounds in difficult combinations is practiced:
- The talker said to the talkers: “I said, don’t tell the talker that the talker has started talking,” the talker has a talker. The talker began to speak, and the talker’s throat began to talk slightly, and then the talker said finally: “Stop talking, talker talker.”
- The commander spoke about the colonel and about the colonel, about the lieutenant colonel and about the lieutenant colonel, about the lieutenant and about the lieutenant, about the second lieutenant and about the second lieutenant, about the ensign and about the ensign, about the ensign, but was silent about the ensign.
- There is firewood in the yard, firewood behind the yard, firewood under the yard, firewood above the yard, firewood along the yard, firewood across the width of the yard, the yard cannot accommodate firewood! We'll probably move the wood from your yard back to the wood yard.
- The cap is not sewn in the Kolpakov style, the bell is not poured in the Kolokolov style, the cap needs to be re-packed, re-capped, re-forged, re-capped.
- The snake was bitten by the snake. I can't get along with the snake. From horror it has become narrower - the snake will eat it for dinner and say: “Start over.”
Pronouncing tongue twisters
There are also special tongue twisters for developing diction and eliminating problems with the pronunciation of certain sounds. Good way figure out what exactly needs to be corrected - listen to your own speech from the outside. Once the problems have been identified, you can begin to work on developing your diction.
First you need to learn how to pronounce an isolated sound correctly. Then it is necessary to achieve differentiation in speech of similar sounds, for example, “s” and “sh” or “r” and “l”. A significant help in correcting your speech can be pronouncing special phrases, for example:
- Lara played the lyre.
- Forty mice walked and found forty pennies, and two poorer mice found two pennies each.
- The Ligurian traffic controller was regulating in Liguria.
- A Cossack with a saber galloped towards Sashka to play checkers.
- Sasha walked along the highway and sucked on a dryer. Beavers wander into the cheese forests. Beavers are brave, but they are kind to beavers.
- The bull is blunt-lipped, the bull is blunt-lipped, the bull has a white lip and is blunt.
- There was a white-winged ram, which killed all the rams.
- I was at Frol’s, I lied to Frol about Lavra, I’ll go to Lavra, I lie to Lavra about Frol.
You should move on to working on the next sound only after you have achieved the correct pronunciation of the first sound.
Reading aloud
In addition to speaking tongue twisters, it is also useful to read aloud to develop diction. Recording your voice on a voice recorder can be a good incentive. Few people, having heard their speech, would not want to improve it. By reading passages from books and making audio recordings, you can practice your pronunciation until it becomes almost perfect.
How to learn to speak so that it is really pleasant and interesting to listen to you? When reading aloud, avoid monotony and change your intonation. In addition, it is worth changing the volume and speed of reading, learning to highlight the most important moments with pauses. important points. But at the same time, control your speech so that such pauses are appropriate and not too long.
Also, do not lose sight of the fact that a calm and confident voice is best perceived by others. Whether he will be like this largely depends on the mood and internal state of a person, his ability to control emotions. However, by developing diction, you can learn to speak calmly and convincingly. For example, why not imagine yourself as a politician and talk about the state of the economy in the country while sitting in front of a mirror?
Vocabulary expansion
Another important aspect that needs to be taken into account is the need for constant intellectual development and vocabulary replenishment. Fine developed person in any situation he can carry on a conversation and find the right words. To become just like this, you should read more, solve crossword puzzles more often and attend various trainings on.
If you devote even a few minutes every day to working on improving your diction, within a few months you will begin to speak well, and your voice itself will be transformed beyond recognition. Moreover, all the efforts made will undoubtedly be rewarded over time.
Diaphragm training
In the question of how to deliver a speech, it is very important aspect is the ability to control breathing. Without it, the text may be interrupted by pauses and breaths in places where this violates its meaning or worsens its emotionality. As a result, speech will become abrupt, and the meaning of what is said is perceived worse.
Therefore, one of the first exercises to develop diction should be training to develop proper breathing:
- Place your feet shoulder-width apart, straighten your spine, place one hand on your chest and the other on your stomach. Inhaling through your nose, push your stomach forward. Then calmly exhale air through a small hole in your lips, returning your chest and stomach to their original position.
- To start speaking better over time, you can make the exercise more difficult. To do this, try to maintain proper breathing and at the same time walk, run in place, imitate chopping wood or sweeping the floor.
- You can improve the development of diction with the help of the following exercise. To begin, inhale calmly, and as you exhale, hold out any vowel for as long as possible. When you can hold a vowel for more than 25 seconds, try changing the tone of your voice.
Main causes of speech problems
It is impossible to achieve positive results in the development of diction if you do not understand the causes of speech disorders. Only rarely are they associated with health problems and develop, for example, due to an abnormal jaw structure or a short frenulum of the tongue.
For many people, speech problems are caused by incorrect pronunciation of whistling and hissing sounds, as well as the absence of the “L” or “R” sounds, or a violation of their pronunciation. A weakened articulatory apparatus may also be the cause.
Even if a person can speak well, pronouncing all sounds correctly, in particularly significant situations his speech may become slurred and unclear. After all, when pronouncing words, the articulatory apparatus needs to very quickly switch from one movement to another. This can only be achieved through active and intensive work of the muscles that need to be trained, for example, by regularly pronouncing tongue twisters for diction.
However main reason slurred, quiet speech is a person’s shyness and lack of self-confidence. In such a situation, the development of diction is a secondary problem. First of all, you need to work on your own character and fight complexes.