Successful Speaking Means You Must Provide Evidence for Your Viewpoint or Recommendations
Successful Speaking Means You Must Provide Evidence for Your Viewpoint or Recommendations Evidence is what makes what you have to say interesting and believable. Evidence makes your presentation persuasive and memorable. Rerun from March 21, 2016
English Communication: Fascinating Reasons for Those Unusual Spellings for Some English Words
English Communication: Fascinating Reasons for Those Unusual Spellings for Some English Words You know that for as much as 70-75% of words in English, the pronunciation follows English language rules tied to the spelling of the word. But what about the other words? Why are they spelled the way they are spelled? Knowing the patterns […]
Let Your Voice Ring Out During Presentations
Let Your Voice Ring Out During Presentations Greater volume means everyone can hear all your speech sounds and can understand all your words. Wonderful is that when your voice rings out, the volume is a trigger mechanism. The rest of your body will follow, and you’ll gesture more, emphasize more, and hand movements and facial […]
English Speaking Skills: Understanding Gets You to Pronunciation Mastery- Important Reasons for Some Strange Spellings
English Speaking Skills: Understanding Gets You to Pronunciation Mastery- Important Reasons for Some Strange Spellings Here are two sets of words which give you a sample of words in English that do not follow the rules of pronunciation or spelling of English. Corpse and corps Horse and worse About 70% of the words in English […]
All Speakers Think They Speak Louder than They Do
All Speakers Think They Speak Louder than They Do That’s because they are hearing themselves through the bone structure of their head as well as through their ears. Rerun from March 7, 2016
Accent Reduction: One of Hottest Job Skills is Fluency in English and Another Language
Accent Reduction: One of Hottest Job Skills is Fluency in English and Another Language Are you working to get accurate, fluent English? Fluency in English and another language is one of the hottest job skills in the U.S. As early as 2013, the U.S. Department of Labor noted that translators and interpreters would be one of the […]
Impact of Low Volume Voice During Presentations
Impact of Low Volume Voice During Presentations Audiences interpret low volume as the speakers having low conviction or low interest on their topic. Audiences say to themselves, “If the speaker isn’t interested, I’m not either.” Then the audience stops paying attention to you. Rerun from Feb 29, 2016
Accent Reduction: Why did English Become a Dominant World-Language?
Accent Reduction: Why did English Become a Dominant World-Language? Have you ever wondered why English became a dominant world-language? Have you ever wondered whether Mandarin (China’s official language) would take the place of English as the globe’s most important language? The answer to English becoming a dominant language lies in history. The British Empire spread […]
Best Stance for Speakers
Best Stance for Speakers You look strongest and in greatest control when you plant your two feet shoulder-width apart, weight equally balanced, body facing square to the audience. That way, all your energy communicates itself in gestures, facial expressions, and upper body movements. Rerun from Feb 22, 2016
English Speaking Skills: What is Best Number of Words in Sentences?
English Speaking Skills: What is Best Number of Words in Sentences? English communication and writing. Did you ever wonder what length of sentences are best for communicating information in writing? Here is one angle of view on that question. I investigated newspapers for answers because they are intended for a large variety of readers. Readers […]