One of the most important elements when assessing a person is the voice. Most often, if we are pleased with the way a person speaks, then we will like to communicate with him, and we will listen to him with pleasure. Therefore, a well-delivered speech and, moreover, a beautiful one is the key to success in any communication - be it personal or business. And often it even attracts attention and presents a person in an advantageous light compared to those who do not know how to structure their speech correctly. But how to deliver the speech? Almost anyone can cope with this task - you just need to do certain exercises, which we will tell you about now.
How to deliver the correct speech
The main rule here is regular reading. If your speech is really bad, then you need to read aloud for at least 20-30 minutes a day. This simple exercise will help you cope with such unnecessary traits as embarrassment and self-doubt, and you will also acquire the necessary skills. By reading aloud, you will undoubtedly teach yourself to speak out loud, but with the difference that it will be beautiful literary speech, and not simple spoken language. Of course, for reading aloud it is best to select classical literature, which is rich in expressive means of language. Children are usually the most fastidious listeners, so if you have them in your home, that's just great. If children listen to you attentively, then you essentially have nothing to worry about, although this does not mean that you no longer need to improve your correct speech skills. This needs to be done constantly. Well, and, of course, read more and regularly so that the skill of correct pronunciation is not lost. And now about another good way to deliver a competent speech.
Choosing a sample
Choose a person whose voice and character of speech you like. It is best to choose from television or radio presenters, since these people are specially trained in correct speech. Having chosen, begin to imitate him (or her). To do this, record the voice of the presenter and your voice and compare the result. Particular attention should be paid to the pronunciation of consonants, because speech looks “clumsy” precisely because of their incorrect pronunciation. Most often, there is a kind of “porridge” in the mouth, which is why a person begins to mumble and speak almost inarticulately. It is by comparing the pronunciation of consonant sounds that you will see the shortcomings that need to be corrected in order to achieve success.
How to deliver a speech correctly - tongue twisters
Tongue twisters are very helpful, they need to be spoken as quickly and clearly as possible. Choose the tongue twister that contains the most difficult sounds to pronounce. For example, the production of such sounds as “b”, “p”, “g” and “k” is facilitated by the tongue twister: “The bull is blunt-lipped, the bull is blunt-lipped, the bull had a dull lip,” for whistling and hissing “s” and “sh” “The no less famous tongue twister “Sasha walked along the highway and sucked on a dryer” would be suitable, and so on. Of course, you need to start with simple tongue twisters (like the above), and then gradually move on to more complex ones. By the way, for greater effect, you can pronounce tongue twisters and/or read with your mouth full. Nuts are well suited for this purpose, but it is best to stuff your mouth with shelled hazelnuts, or if they are not shelled, then at least wash them before class. Well, a few more useful recommendations. When speaking, there is no need to clench your teeth, since this position of the teeth does not allow you to pronounce words clearly, and this can lead to misunderstanding on the part of others. And finally, try to communicate regularly and regularly increase your vocabulary (especially through reading). Very often, people cannot find the right words, replacing them with various not very articulate sounds like “mmm”, “uh”, “ummm”, etc. It doesn’t sound or look very attractive from the outside, believe me, and at times it’s downright funny.
Correct, literate speech and good diction are important not only for public people and professional journalists. Knowledge of the culture of speech and the ability to beautifully express one’s thoughts in our time is one of the keys to success in almost any field of activity. Therefore, for many people the important question is how to develop speech and learn to speak beautifully.
In business, the service sector, business and everyday communication, already in the first minutes of communication, it determines the status of a person and the appropriate attitude towards him. It is good if parents and teachers began to develop this quality in a person from childhood. However, if this is not the case, then, if desired, an adult can learn to correctly express his thoughts and views.
How to develop your speech and learn to speak beautifully?
If you are faced with the task of developing diction and speech, then first you need to determine the main factors of beautiful and competent expression. The main attention should be paid to the following aspects:
- correct construction of sentences;
- vocabulary and vocabulary;
- clear diction.
Beautiful speech is based on these three pillars. When deciding how to learn to speak beautifully, it is important to pay attention to each of them.
To develop the correct construction of sentences, it is important to learn to critically evaluate and analyze your speech. If you perceive information better by ear, then compose speeches on a specific topic and record yourself on a voice recorder. The same experiment can be carried out by recording your conversations with different interlocutors. This technique will allow you to identify various types of shortcomings - errors in phrase construction, diction and incorrect stress in words. For people who perceive visual information better, freewriting exercises are suitable. By writing down your plans or simply keeping a diary, you will gradually learn to present information correctly.
One of the important nuances in the problem is how to develop your speech and enrich your vocabulary. Classic Russian literature and good translations of foreign books not only help to significantly improve the lexical composition of speech, but also serve as a source of knowledge of correct spelling and beautiful construction of phrases. You can expand your vocabulary by solving crossword puzzles; when solving them, you often have to turn to reference books, and this adds to your knowledge and helps in learning and memorizing new words.
To develop diction, it is useful to repeat tongue twisters, words and phrases with a complex combination of sounds. There are many examples of such words - swaggering, platoon, stay awake, outlet, breast, disheveled, fire hose, philosophize, etc. Another good exercise to improve 
speech technique is the pronunciation of phrases consisting of several stressed syllables in a row:
- There was hail that year.
- Grandfather has become old.
- Wave splash - sparkle splash.
- Jump a hundred miles.
- At that hour a blackbird was singing here.
By devoting time to speech development every day, after two to three months you can notice changes for the better. The main thing is not to stop halfway.
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 recently, 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 of 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;
- incorrect pronunciation of 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 in forward 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 are increasingly becoming tongue-tied, unable to express thoughts correctly, and 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 - peppering their speech with 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 speech, you need to compose the text in advance on paper, retelling it according to a ready-made 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 many fairly modern concepts, because now almost everyone is either their own psychologist or their 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. Using computer programs, compressing a volume 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 already at school.
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.
Beautiful, correct speech is a necessary attribute of a successful man. Why is it so important to develop speech for an adult if he has certain problems with it? Maybe we shouldn’t bother and continue to communicate at the same level? It’s better, of course, to improve your skills. I'll explain why.
Firstly, with correct, confident speech, efficiency in communication immediately increases. It becomes easier to come to an agreement with a person, convince him, and also make a good impression.
Secondly, in a pickup truck this is an important component of successful seduction. "It doesn't matter what you say, it matters how you say it."
How to develop correct and beautiful speech for an adult
If there are obvious speech defects, then the first thing you should do is visit a speech therapist. With the help of a doctor, you can quickly improve the situation for the better. He will give recommendations on how to properly work on correcting speech.
If you have no obvious defects, then you can enroll in a public speaking school. There they teach you how to speak and speak in public confidently, to interest the audience, so that people listen to you with enthusiasm. Of course, this costs money, and often significant money. But in the end, you will rise to a new level in life, and the fees for these courses will be repaid more than once. Such schools operate in most large cities.
How to develop competent speech
In order to develop competent speech, you will have to work hard. You can take the first steps yourself:
— Reading fiction. An extremely useful activity in which you learn the correct and understandable presentation of thoughts, a new vocabulary, a subtle sense of humor and much more. After consciously reading several books, you can already feel a certain result.
— Watching public speeches of famous people. Choose the person who most impresses you in terms of beauty and literacy. This could be a politician, a business coach, or a person in some other profession related to publicity. Watch recordings of his performances, remember the moments you liked the most and made an impression on. You can also try to repeat certain moments of their speech.
Exercises for home training:
In addition to the above tips, you can perform specific exercises at home that will help you in public speaking. Important conditions for successful development are methodicality, diligence and awareness of what you are doing at the moment.
#1 Reading tongue twisters. Where would we be without them? One of the most productive and popular exercises for speech development, which has a positive effect on articulation. To begin, choose several tongue twisters to work on different sounds. Each tongue twister should be carefully worked on, bringing its pronunciation to perfection.
#2 Reading aloud words with a combination of several consonants in a row. For example, comedy, postscript, angstrom, wakefulness, etc.
#3 Reading passages and sentences with correct intonation and expression.
#4 Keyword story. To do this, you should write down a few words that are not related to each other, and use them to come up with a short story on the go. This exercise develops logical thinking and intelligence.
#5 Dialogue with the interlocutor. Choose a topic, sketch out a short conversation plan. The purpose of this exercise is the ability to competently conduct a conversation, captivate your interlocutor, and acquire persuasion skills in a real situation.
Of course, these exercises, like the entire article, are the tip of the iceberg. But with the help of this information you received basic concepts about the development of speech in an adult. And if you complete the exercises above, your communication skills will noticeably improve. Good luck!
How to learn to speak beautifully
Brevity, clarity, literacy - the foundations of correct and beautiful speech
People have forgotten how to speak correctly and beautifully (for a number of reasons, starting with the general decline of culture in the 90s of the last century). This needs to be learned again. At a minimum, because such speech not only characterizes a person positively, but also helps him communicate with other people and achieve success in work and personal life. Imagine this situation. You are communicating with a person who uses vulgar, slang words. Would you like to continue the conversation with him? Of course not.
Not all people are gifted with oratory skills. However, with desire and diligence, almost every person can learn to speak beautifully and correctly. Moreover, the Russian language is extremely rich. It makes it possible to describe any object, characterize any person, express an attitude towards a particular event, natural phenomenon, work of art, etc. with utmost clarity and imagery. With the help of its features, you can emphasize the slightest nuances, highlight this or that detail, character trait. In this regard, few languages can compare with Russian.
It is not necessary for such a description or expression to be verbose. After all, a speech that is too long, even beautiful and figurative, tires listeners, and sometimes can cause irritation. As a result, the expected effect from the spoken words will not be achieved.
Therefore, it should be remembered that one of the main requirements for correct and beautiful speech is brevity. You must quickly move on to the main essence of the issue, without delaying the introduction, without being distracted by extraneous details. Then they will listen to you carefully, and your arguments will have the desired effect.
Of course, there is no need to go to the opposite extreme, following the example of the ancient Spartans, who became famous for their brevity. She's pretty good too
It is necessary to speak clearly and convincingly. Whatever the conversation is about, the speaker’s words should be clear to anyone, even someone who does not have a high level of intelligence. The whole effect of the speech will be lost if the listeners are constantly trying to understand: “What does he mean?” Therefore, you should not use specific terms that are familiar only to a narrow circle of specialists, for example. It is also necessary, if possible, to refrain from using foreign words too often. After all, in most cases they can be replaced with Russian analogues.
And, of course, you need to speak competently. A very unpleasant impression is made by a person who makes mistakes in accents or uses words incorrectly. For example, the entire effect of a convincing and beautiful speech can be spoiled by the word “lay” spoken instead of the word “put”. In the same way, the head of a company who makes mistakes in accents when pronouncing the words “agreement” or “kilometer” is unlikely to inspire respect and trust among business partners.
Make it a rule: use as little jargon as possible. They are quite acceptable when communicating in a narrow circle or on social networks, but not when speaking in public.
Moreover, try in every possible way to avoid rude, vulgar expressions (not to mention obscene). They do not best characterize the person using them
An example of beautiful correct speech - Russian classical literature
To learn to speak correctly, figuratively and beautifully, you need to read as many classical works as possible. Pushkin, Lermontov, Gogol, Turgenev, Chekhov, Leskov... This is not a complete list of masters of artistic expression who had an excellent command of the Russian language and left us an invaluable creative heritage. In their works you will find countless examples of truly beautiful speech. Although some words are outdated these days, and some phrases may seem ponderous and unnatural, Russian classics will help you learn to speak beautifully and correctly. Read the works of these masters and after a while you yourself will notice that your vocabulary has been enriched, and you want to speak, imitating their heroes.
Attend performances based on the works of masters of classical literature, or watch them on TV. This will also help you learn correct and beautiful speech.
You can also read an explanatory Russian dictionary and write down the words you like most. But remember that some of them may be unfamiliar to your listeners, so try not to use them when communicating with opponents.