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Anonymous Posted 21 years ago
Linguistics Studies

I want to learn to speak clearly-What do I have to know/do?

I want to know what i need to do in order to speak cleary, consisely and intelligently. I've learned that most of the time, i'm at a loss for words, coversationally speaking, and may come across as unintelligent because my wording just isn't there. It's embarrasing. And it's caused me from being a social person. I also find myself sabotaging relationships with people because of this speaking problem I have. What am I lacking? I mean, I would talk to anyone. Im not that shy. I read alot. I've studied grammar privately. I've taken classes on public speaking, grammar and critical thinking. I use vocabulary books and dictionaries everytime I need them. I've also read books on comprehension, critical thinking, reasoning and listening effectively and I still dont think I speak effectively. I can enunciate a word well and can even imitate public speaking figures or TV/Movie personalities quite well. I'm not delusional because i've recorded myself and i notice that i fumble alot or stop to think for a sec about the next word or the idea as a whole i'm trying to convey. It's as if I cannot make my words flow. I've noticed how people can just flow with words as if were born to speak. Like news anchors speak marvelously, I think. I would love to speak as a news anchor does. How do they do it, I wonder. It's all i think about, speaking clearly. What's wrong? Do i have a mental problem perhaps?
  

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Some people do indeed have a talent for speaking, while others do not, just as some can sing and dance while others cannot. Still, most can improve if they put their minds to it. It seems from your description that you are an average speaker like me.

— Mister Micawber

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Some people do indeed have a talent for speaking, while others do not, just as some can sing and dance while others cannot. Still, most can improve if they put their minds to it.

It seems from your description that you are an average speaker like me. Is there a [url="http://www.toastmasters.org/"]TOASTMASTERS
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Hi,

I find practising helps. I used to do this also: say something once, and if I don't think it passes my clarity standards, I'll rephrase it. Eventually, I'm doing less rephrasing.

Hope that helps.
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hello, this is hardik dave, i read your thoughts and find u very good speaker, as is here i am also fesinating about speaking but i dont have scope over in london, during my college time over in india i have won lots of prise and also represanted college in dist. and state level. but uptill one month i havent have prectice if u know about any compitition plz let me know
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I myself have the same exact problem. It's so funny because I thought I was one of the only ones with some sort of an education but I just cant get my thoughts in order. I fumble with words all the time. I even study my dictionary in order to learn new words and the proper usesage of them. I really hate this problem, it affects me a great deal. However, I think that maybe we foucs on it just a ta
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0It seems there are quite a few people with this problem. I'm one of them. In fact this is affecting my life considerably! Is there a way to "learn" how to speak clearly and fast? 02br
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00A bit about me. I am from Europe, but moved to Canada almost 11 years ago, I was 12 at the time. I think what could be the cause of my situation, is that I was not a social person, reall
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0I stumbled across this discussion unintentionally, looking for something completely unrelated, but was intrigued by the problems described, which relate to some I have experienced myself. Although there may not be any link in individual cases, Grrrr's connection of poor speaking with blushing is highly relevant and the following are my thoughts after years of self-observation and thought.02
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I, too, fumbled upon this page after doing a Google search on this subject. I'm intrigued by Anonymous' insight that if you have trouble speaking out loud, you are just exercising a higher level of self-consciousness. I had never looked at this issue in that light before, and after reading the exercise they described, I thought I may be able to add to the mix by another insight (this is a great
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I have this issue too. It seems like we're all pretty intelligent and maybe that's why we're in this situation. I go to the University of Oregon and I'm constantly surrounded by people who can speak eloquently when all I can do is blush and mutter. When I'm comfortable around the person/people I'm more than willing to engage in an argument or call someone out on what they said but in class(e
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Cláudio from Brasil writes.

There are several good responses to your inquiry. There is however, a peace of information that could be added and I apologize if you already know it but, some or maybe all news anchor are reading their texts from a screen placed in front of them called a teleprompter. They are professionally trained to speak in a certain tone and rythm as I am sure you're awar
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the way I'm dealing with it Emotion: smile

-when I read , I read out loud for everyone in the neighborhood to hear, while readi
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