One of the most important elements in 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, beautiful one is the key to success in any communication, whether personal or business. And often it even attracts attention and presents a person in a winning light compared to those who do not know how to competently build their speech. But how to deliver a speech? Almost everyone can cope with this task - you just need to perform certain exercises, which we will tell you about now.

How to deliver the right 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 deal with unnecessary traits such as shyness and self-doubt, and you will also acquire the necessary skills. By reading aloud, you will undoubtedly teach yourself to speak aloud, but with the difference that it will be a beautiful literary speech, and not a simple colloquial language. Of course, for reading aloud, it is best to select classical fiction, which is saturated with the expressive means of the language. Children are usually the pickiest listeners, so having them in your home is great. If children are listening attentively, then you, in fact, have nothing to worry about, although this does not mean at all that you no longer need to improve your skill of correct speech. This must 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, as these people are specially trained in correct speech. Having chosen, start imitating 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 “clumsy” speech looks precisely because of their incorrect pronunciation. Most often, a kind of “porridge” is observed in the mouth, because of which a person begins to mumble and speak almost inarticulately. It is by comparing the pronunciation of consonants that you will see the shortcomings that need to be corrected in order to succeed.

How to put a speech - tongue twisters

Tongue twisters that need to be spoken as quickly and clearly as possible help very well. Choose the tongue twister that contains the most difficult sounds to pronounce. For example, the staging of such sounds as “b”, “p”, “g” and “k” is facilitated by the tongue twister: “The bull is stupid, stupid bull, the bull had a blunt lip”, for whistling and hissing “s” and “sh ”The no less famous tongue twister “Sasha walked along the highway and sucked dry”, and so on. Of course, you need to start with simple tongue twisters (like the ones mentioned 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 good 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 tips. When speaking, you do not need to clench your teeth, since such a position of the teeth does not allow you to clearly pronounce the words, 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 sounds and looks from the outside not too nice, believe me, and at times it’s just funny.

Competent speech is the key to success in life. After all, they are judged not only by clothes, but also by the ability to correctly convey thoughts and write correctly. A person who knows how to express his thoughts simply, concisely and clearly, correctly build sentences, is always perceived more positively. Interlocutors, listening to competent speech, automatically assign a completely different, higher level of life competence to a person.

Have you ever lost or didn't get a job because of too many mistakes in a letter or the need to clearly explain why you are the right person for the job? The development of competent speech is one of the basic tasks of every self-respecting person. Even if you are not performing in front of an audience, the ability to speak beautifully and clearly is appreciated by everyone. So, how to develop literate speech?

Read fiction

Reading quality fiction can hardly be called a waste of time. In today's world, we are exposed to a very large flow of information, mostly listening to the news or reading it on the Internet. But the web, entertaining reading and business literature cannot replace good books by recognized domestic and foreign authors.

Reading novels helps to intuitively make correct, beautiful sentences, develops a sense of language. Reading fiction, scientific articles in special editions, a person expands his horizons and vocabulary. If you want to make speech more lively, figurative - read poetry. Select for yourself the rhythm, metaphors and turns of speech that you would like to use.

Use Dictionaries

Look for new words. If you have heard or read a word whose meaning is unfamiliar to you, feel free to take a dictionary and find out what it means. The origin of words is a very interesting science. What if it becomes one of your hobbies?

In addition to the usual dictionary, there are dictionaries of metaphors, foreign words, special terms, even dictionaries dedicated to a particular science. Use everyone - and your vocabulary will grow rapidly. You can always find the most accurate word and apply it in a conversation.

Play educational games

As you know, children receive almost all the knowledge about the language until the age of seven. Literate speech in a child develops with the help of the people around him. There are also many games and techniques that allow you to develop your imagination, expand your vocabulary and learn how to speak beautifully.

If possible, listen to yourself from the outside. Make an audio or video recording of your voice. If you are afraid to speak into the recorder or get an inaccurate result, ask someone close to record you during a normal conversation.

Assess your speech. Competent speech is always clean from everything superfluous. How accurately did you communicate your message to others? Was she understandable? Could it have been shorter, clearer, clearer? Are you pausing where you shouldn't? Are you building sentences correctly? Do your thoughts get confused, do you jump from thought to thought, confusing your listeners?

Watch for accents. Incorrect stresses (ringing, blinds and other tricky words, of which there are many in the Russian language) betray an illiterate and ill-mannered person. There are two ways out: do not use these words or open a dictionary, textbooks and memorize them firmly.

Edit what you've written

Wrote a letter, a message to a friend, a report to the management or an artistic essay? Whatever it is, review the text as carefully as possible and try to give it a critical assessment. This is a great speech exercise. If you practice "cleaning" the letter, very soon you will see the result. In addition, colloquial speech will also change significantly!

When you've written something, try to "switch" to something else (at least go and make yourself a cup of tea), then return to the text with a "fresh" eye. Imagine that this is someone else's text. Does it have any errors? How accurate is the thought? Is everything clear to you as an outside reader? Is it possible to formulate this idea more clearly and concisely?

Correct speech and competent speech is always bright, expressive and understandable. Get rid of words that do not carry any semantic load. Often they take up a third of the text, from which your thought definitely loses. If you can use a simpler and shorter word - use it. You can also try reading aloud (be sure to do this if you are preparing a speech that you will give).

Develop your voice

For communication, not only grammatically and lexically literate speech is important. Good manners of communication also include command of the voice. If you have applied all the techniques outlined above, but at the same time express your thoughts in a monotonous voice, devoid of any intonation, listening to you will be unpleasant and not very interesting.

It is worth developing your voice. Do the exercises, listen to the speakers and try to repeat after them. Sign up for a speaking class. Even with little effort, the results will please you, and your interlocutors will stop yawning.

Results

Literate speech is not given from birth. You need to work on this constantly, throughout your life. But even if you devote quite a bit of effort and time to the development of your speech, but reading will become your good habit, a more interesting and successful life is guaranteed to you.

Good speech will never go out of style. People are always pleased to deal with someone who not only shines with inner beauty, but also knows how to most accurately give his thoughts a speech form. In addition, excellently staged is not something like a gift of nature. It can and should be developed.

Correct oral and written language

Each language has a unique wealth that is peculiar to it, and it would be a sin not to use it. This is especially true for a language that is native to a person. When you hear a competent speech or a perfectly designed text lies before your eyes, without a single mistake, then a positive impression about the author, the interlocutor is immediately formed.

To develop a culture of written and oral speech is the responsibility of everyone. And this happens every day in the process of communication, learning. After all, it’s not in vain that they say that it’s not only pleasant to talk with an intelligent person, but also just to be silent.

Criteria for literate speech

If we move on to a more detailed consideration of this concept, it should be noted that speech culture means:

• the appropriateness of what was said;
• literacy of written or spoken information;
• accessibility in understanding the phrases of the interlocutor, clarity;
• wealth, which consists in the use of various epithets, phraseological units, metaphors, etc .;
• variety, lack of tautology, unnecessary repetitions that pollute the meaning of what was said;
• aesthetics.

Lack of literate speech skills

All these errors significantly cut the ear and carry absolutely no valuable information about the speaker, do not create the image of a literate person.

How to develop competent speech?

The quality of literate speech must be improved daily, brought to perfection. After all, even if a person is intellectually developed, well-read, has a deep inner world, but, alas, is not able to express himself clearly, then only he will know about what he says.

So, the development of literate speech requires the implementation of several simple rules:

Beautiful and competent speech is the dream of many people of different sex and age. Some people are endowed with the art of speaking correctly from birth, while others learn this all their lives. After all, a competently speaking person will be able to convince the interlocutor of his point of view, and his speech sounds much more confident. These abilities are important not only for public people, but also for the common man. We'll tell you how to develop speech and learn to speak beautifully.

Main steps to success

Presentation in front of colleagues

• awareness of the problem in speech and a great desire to change it;
• the presence of patience, which is very useful when repeating exercises and workouts;
• a certain amount of time and space to study;
• unlimited confidence in success;
• support from family and friends.

Workout program

The action program itself is very simple, interesting and effective. Having written the points of the plan on the sheet, you can safely proceed to their implementation.

Reading classical works is considered the basis of literate speech. It is they that are saturated with original speech turns that help to understand the heroes of that time, their thoughts, experiences, spiritual values. Properly written dialogues give the reader a sense of the essence of the relationship of a certain period. Some phrases that describe people, household items of that time, help to plunge into the atmosphere of the inner world of the characters, into the development of their ideas.

Speech rate and listener attention

The pace of your speech and its impact on others can be easily felt when recording your speech on a voice recorder. When listening to yourself, it will become clear what prevents the audience from focusing on your speech and listening to it with interest to the end.

Most often, listeners are annoyed by excessive monotony or, conversely, the increased speed of presentation of the material. Without assimilating the content of the conversation, people instantly lose interest in it. And even the most unusual material, delivered in a monotonous speech, will not arouse the approval of the listeners.

The problem of choosing a speech tempo is not the most difficult task. The main thing is to feel the audience and change the intonation in time in order to periodically shake the audience.

You can learn more about speech techniques in the video:

Use of embellishments in speech

Any text, dryly stated, is difficult for the interlocutor to perceive. But it is worth adding a little humor or accurate sayings, and the audience is already full of attention. The secret here is simple - to correctly use humor, quotes from famous people can only be a well-read person, as close as possible to his listeners. The speaker becomes an authority for them, a respected person who can be trusted in judgments. And this is already a big part of the success with the public.

The surest way to add embellishments to speech is to develop your own style. To do this, you need to read a lot and thoughtfully.

Public speaking to different audiences

A toast at a wedding is a great practice!

It is impossible to develop speech and learn to speak beautifully without practical performances. Unfamiliar listeners of different sex and age are especially valuable. There is no need to be afraid to publicly express your point of view, to voice your thoughts, even if the first experience is not as successful as expected.

You don’t need to stop there, but, on the contrary, continue to speak to people in public. With each new performance, self-confidence will be added, and this is another stage on the path to success.

Record your favorite phrases, quotes and thoughts

By writing down in a notebook or notebook what you liked in a book or heard in a conversation, you can use it in your speech in the future. It helps a lot to analyze your performances or the performances of other people. In this case, it is better not to fix errors, but to record the best moments of discussions.

Competent oral speech will help you a lot in life when speaking in public or in a personal conversation, in employment and defending a diploma. A poor vocabulary and difficulties in coherent presentation of thoughts, on the contrary, can do a disservice.

Any skill, like the skill of competent conversation, can be acquired. It helps to read quality literature. Do not rely on reading matter, consisting of one-day books. Their authors, at times, themselves sin with illiteracy. You should focus on reading the classics, on the works of the world's best authors.

The retelling of books or films that have sunk into the soul helps to acquire literacy of speech. Try to keep the retelling detailed and watch those who listen to you so that they do not get bored. If this suddenly happened, then you failed to convey your impressions of the film to them. Perhaps the listener is confused by the personal pronouns you're trying to get across. It is no longer clear to him who “he” or “she” is and why there are so many of them.

Extra words that clog speech should be removed from everyday life. They do not make any sense and do not carry useful information. Examples of such words and expressions are the tautology: “a minute of time”, “raise up”, “not the month of May”. After all, May cannot be an hour or a year, why then use the extra word “month” nearby?

Tautology is an unnecessary repetition of words that are close in meaning or have the same root. Vivid examples of tautology: "ask a question" and "butter oil". Try not to use such expressions. Watch the speech of TV presenters, politicians or your closest acquaintances. Analyze their mistakes, try to find a replacement for their unsuccessful turns. Then it will become easier for you to catch speech incidents in your conversation.

Try to avoid words that you don't understand the meaning of. Otherwise, you will be like Shchukar, who believed that a modest girl is called a "lampshade", and a girl of easy virtue is called a "curb". The dictionary of foreign words and the explanatory dictionary of the Russian language perfectly enrich the lexicon. But do not forget about the correct stress in words!

Slang, both professional and youth, is far from always appropriate. If at work or among friends it is acceptable, then in official conversations it is hardly worth using.

Constantly monitor your speech, and then it will gradually become beautiful and competent.