Will You Create Lucid Language Everytime You Speak?
When clear speech is heard it is appealing to the ear. It is the result of optimal use of the vocal cords. Attaining clarity is is crucial when giving a lecture. It’s also important in our everyday conversation. To gain mastery of use of our vocal cords requires practice.Speaking clearly is something that we’ve had to work on during the pursue the passion tour because most of the people don’t know what to expect when we walk through the door. So the professionalism point has really been a focal point.
Clear Speech: Exercise
- Talking properly is in component based on pronunciation. It is the appropriate use of vocal cords, mouth, tongue, lungs and mind
- Indistinct speech can result from slurring words and phrases, talking inside a muffled voice, running words and phrases together, dropping endings and just failure to enunciate phrases or groups of words and phrases
Tense Voice, Big Pitch
- The other end of the spectrum is a distressed voice. Some have developed a habit of speaking in a distressed voice as part of their normal conversation. It is hard to describe but when you hear someone do it, you will know it.
- The speech as compared with resonating in the mouth, comes from the throat and sounds deeper, raspy, and forced. So even though you have clear speech, it is indistinct
- What does it sound like? What does it feel like? That is a distressed voice. The solution is simple, just breathe. Breathe adequate for your speaking. Clear speech requires adequate lungs
- Speaking clearly is something that we’ve had to work on during the pursue the passion tour because most of the people don’t know what to expect when we walk through the door. So the professionalism point has really been a focal point.
- Slurring words or running them together can be the result of a learned behavior or cultural behavior. It also consists of dropping syllables indiscriminately or like a cultural norm. These need to be corrected to to converse clearly and distinctly.