Tips For Becoming A Good Speaker
We all know that we convey
our thoughts through our speech.
Therefore, almost all of us want
to become very good speakers in order to convey our thoughts to others in a
very effective manner.
There are certain tips for
improving the art of speaking.
1.Very good knowledge about the grammar of the language you speak
First of all, the basic structures
of the language you speak must be clear to you.
2.Your sentences should be grammatically correct.
Do not use any slang in your
formal language.
3.Moderate Pitch of Voice
The pitch or the scale of your
voice should be moderate: neither too high nor too low.
The listener should be able to
understand easily what you speak. Some people speak at a very high pitch of
their voice. It is very irritating and harmful to the listener.
· The speaker cannot produce a desired effect on
the listener if he or she speaks at a high pitch of voice.
· Similarly, speaking at a low pitch of voice is
not effective because the listener is not able to understand what you want to
convey.
4.Tempo of the speech
Moderate Tempo of the Speech
It should be neither too fast nor too slow.
When the speaker is very fast, the listener
would feel difficulty to understand the meaning
of the sentences.
If the speaker is very much slow,
it may cause dullness and laziness to
the listener. Long pauses in speech may be irritating to the listener.
If there are pauses, the speaker
should have a practice for filling up those gaps with some common gap fillers
like: ‘I mean to say, as you know, what you call it, okay…., hum……, well….,
etc.
5.No touch of regional language
In our country, several regional languages are spoken. If the speaker
uses the tinge of any regional language, the beauty of the language is spoilt.
Suppose the speaker is speaking
English language and he is speaking it in Haryanvi or Punjabi style, you may
well imagine the fate of English being spoken.
It is also true that it is very
difficult to keep the purity of English spoken as a second language, but still,
efforts can be made to speak it with the right pronunciation of the words.
If you are to speak Hindi, speak
it with purity. Similarly you can speak other languages with purity.
6.Proper Delivery of the Words
When we speak words, we should
keep in mind that we are doing full justice to the words we speak.
It means that we should speak full
words and by giving them full energetic throw.
We should not drop the sound of the last syllables in our
sentences.
Some people may be doing this
unintentionally because they do not know the fact that they are dropping the
sound of last syllables.
For example, you want to pronounce
the word ‘education’, splendid, determined, you must speak them correctly.
7.When you are speaking in a flow, sometimes you will have to squeeze
or stretch certain words to give your speech a fluency.
For example:
Read the sentences:
‘A good conversation does not include the
topics about kitchen, the best
cleansers, business, bus-time tables and several other dull topics.’
After squeezing and stretching:
‘Agoodconversation अगुडकनवशेशन (noun phrase as
the subject) doesn’-tinclude- डजन्टइन्क्लूड
thetopicsabout-kitchen दटॉपिक्सअबाउटकिचन,
thebestcleansers,business,bus-timetables
andseveralotherdulltopics.’
द बेस्ट क्लिंजेर्स बसटाइमटेबल्स
एनसेवरलअदअडलटॉपिक्स
7.Practice of short and long vowel sounds to give the clarity to the
words spoken
For example
The vowel sounds in the following words:
(i) about अबाउट, glass ग्लास , bad बैड, bus बस, bird ब्अड,
(ii) bed बेड
(iii) sit सिट, seat सीट
(iv) Dog डॉग
(vii) ball बोल
(viii)Book बुक
(ix)Root रूट
Diphthongs:
1. sheer शीअ(र)
2. How हाउ
3. Fate फेईट
4.Rare रेअ(र)
5. Tour टूअ(र)
6. Site साईट
7. Joy जोई
8. so सउ
8.Self Confidence: This is very important for all kinds of speakers.
If there is no self confidence, you
cannot think of becoming a very good speaker.
The reasons for having less confidence:
- Feeling shy: If you feel shy of speaking in front of others, it means you need exposure.
(a) It seems that your parents and teachers did
not encourage you to speak in front of others or they might not have noticed
your weakness of feeling shy. With the passage of time, it continued growing
within you.
Whatever be its reasons, you must remove your
shyness and come out of it immediately if you wish to change your personality.
Suggestions:
a. Start interacting with the members of your family immediately. Never
feel shy of speaking to your father, mother, sister, brother, cousins and all.
b. Always try finding out opportunities to speak to others.
c. When
you meet others in a family function, be friendly with them.
d. Do not wait for the time that they will start conversing with you.
e.Be an initiator. Begin your
conversation about anything like weather, about day-to- day events or the politics of your country.
In this manner your shyness would be removed within a short period.
There may be some other reasons for your
feeling hesitant of speaking in front of others.
- You may be a victim of inferiority complex.
- You may be thinking that you will not be able to express your ideas properly or in a better way in front of people.
- You may compare yourself with others to find good points in them, but, at the same time, imbibe those good points in you but never get overwhelmed by the persons who possess them. It means you must not feel inferior to them.
- If you do so, you will be a victim of your own weak points.
What are those weak points that you may think about?
(i) You
may think that your voice quality is poorer than those of others.
Okay…! It may be poorer but you may
improve your voice quality. It is very easy.
a.Another point you may think about
is that the person to whom you are speaking to is very learned, qualified or a
rich person or may be your superior or boss or maybe your teacher.
b.You must come out of your
imaginary fears that you will not be able to express your views in front of
such people.
c.Be confident and start speaking
before them whenever you get proper chance.
d.Believe me that they will be
pleased to see that you are speaking and sharing your views in front of them
with them.
e.In the beginning you may speak
not in a coherent way, after a few efforts you will feel natural and confident
in front of them.
f.But never give up! Keep your will
power always strong and alive.
g.Always remember that you want to
become a very good speaker.
h.Some of you may also think that
you have not a good command over the language you want to speak, particularly
English and Hindi.
Do not worry, you just start speaking and side by side try to pick up the commonly spoken sentences and phrases.
j.Load your Hindi sentences with
words in the beginning and then with phrases or half sentences( Principal or
subordinate clauses).
In this way you will become
habitual of using English in your sentences.
k.Think every action in English.
l.Create a permanent zeal for
speaking the language of your choice and within a couple of weeks you will see
the improvement within you.
m.Sometimes the impact of the regional
language may come in the language you want to speak. Try to remain conscious or
alert about it for some days.
After a few days, you may be able to remove
the impact of the regional language.
But it needs constant effort on
your part.
Very often, I have seen that some
students hesitate to speak with others because they do not have full knowledge
about the topic being discussed.
In that case, keeping silent is
their natural choice.
If this is also your case, you must
keep updating yourselves about the current issues that are often discussed by
people.
If some students discuss about
movies, you must get knowledge about the latest or the old movies. It adds to
your general knowledge.
If your friends sometimes discuss
about music, you also increase your knowledge about music. For example, they
may talk about pop singers, ghazal singers, etc.
Similarly you must update your
knowledge about sports, history, politics, etc. to enhance your knowledge.
It means a very good speaker must have a very good knowledge about
several areas of general
knowledge.
It also means that many of the students or
the people remain silent in most of the situations
because they have nothing to say.
Sometimes it may also happen with
you that you want to say something that is already said by
others who are present before you.
Never mind! Such type of situation may arise very often with anyone. I
have read somewhere that
Gandhi ji faced the same type of problem when he was a student of law in
England.
Try thinking very different
from others. Be natural in your responses.
• Speak
what you feel very close to your heart.
• Be natural in your expression. Do not cram the
subject matter on which you want to speak.
• Keep some points or ideas in your mind and then
explain them one by one.
Steps to boost your confidence in
speaking:
Suppose you have a very good knowledge about the current issues and
general knowledge, but still you hesitate to take part in a discussion or speak
in front of your class and teacher or in the morning assembly
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