By nature, only a few have a clear, correct pronunciation. In childhood, almost every second child faces the problem of speech, but it is much easier to solve it. An adult who thinks about how to improve diction is faced with his own habit of speaking incorrectly. This complicates the work on oneself, and correcting speech takes more time. Easy Useful offers you 5 steps to improve your speech quality. If you decide to work on your speech, you should fight the desire to postpone it for later: only frequent classes will give results.

Step 1: train the organs of articulation

These exercises were developed by speech therapists and are aimed at correcting children's pronunciation deficiencies. But for adults, they work just as well. The organs of articulation include lips, teeth, jaws, palate, alveoli, and tongue. Repetition of exercises: for children - 5 times, for adults - 25-30 times.

• we open our mouth as wide as possible, straining the muscles of the face and neck, hold it and close it at the expense of “5”;
• fold closed lips into a tube, pull forward, hold for 5-10 seconds;
• game of "snake": quickly show and hide the tongue, smiling;
• show the tongue, “drag” it through closed teeth back and forth, massaging it;
• alternately inflate your cheeks and tap on them with your fingertips, massaging;
• “explore” the mouth with the tongue: drive the tip along the palate, cheeks, teeth;
• swing: open your mouth wide, smiling, at the expense of “one” - lower your tongue to the lower jaw, “two” - raise it to the upper teeth;
• hold the protruding tongue on the lower jaw motionless and relaxed for at least 5-10 seconds.

For an adult, this training is not as difficult as for a child. If the baby is tired and does not want to perform the required number of repetitions, you can continue after a couple of hours. You can’t force him to study: this will only aggravate the situation, and the child will simply close from you.

Step 2: advanced articulation training

All classes are done at home and are suitable for adults and children. If the child already knows how to read or recite poetry, you can adapt all the activities for him.
Reading aloud to increase the clarity of speech is great, but for better practice of sounds, it is recommended to use a regular cork. We bite it with our teeth (not much, just hold it) and read the book aloud, sing your favorite song, repeat after the audiobook announcer. The lips should be tight. It is enough to practice 10-20 minutes a day.

We read a poem or a book aloud, trying to clearly pronounce all the sounds and perform physical exercises. Running, squats, leg and arm swings will do. It is important that the breath begins to go astray. Then it will become harder to pronounce familiar words, additional efforts will be required. You can't imagine better gymnastics.

This exercise is for adults only, as children should not be allowed to lick small objects. We need simple, smooth, clean pebbles. These can be bought or found in the river and boiled.
We put a few stones in our mouths to make it difficult to speak, and we begin to read, talk to ourselves. Such an activity perfectly trains the clarity of pronunciation.

Pronunciation of strange nonsense gives an excellent result. “BDTTTRZ, VVGGRRRRKHS, MRTSTSEPN” - it is important to pronounce the middle of these words well, not to swallow the ending.

This exercise allows you to quickly improve diction. For a child, you can also advise everything else to put clean mother's beads on a clean thread around the neck, take the lower end of them in your mouth and sort through the beads with your tongue, first in one direction, then in the other. Many parents make special beads for this exercise, stringing beads of different textures and sizes.

If a child speaks very poorly for his age, do not rush to take him to a neurologist. Visit a dentist for an examination of the mouth, measurement of the frenulum under the tongue and lips.

Step 3: speech therapy massage

Massage will increase blood flow in the organs of speech, improve diction and clarity of speech. Working through every centimeter of the tongue, we increase blood flow, make even the weakest parts of the muscle work. Massage can be done by adults, the main thing is to know how to do it right.

• for young children, it is important to carry out massage with communication, an interesting fairy tale, in order to prevent the appearance of rejection;
• maintain a smooth transition from massaging the face and neck to working with the tongue;
• the movements are soft, gentle: alternately stroking, then knocking with your fingertips to get a vibration;
• you can use a spoon, a toothbrush to massage the tongue;
• with our thumbs we make circular movements on both sides of the tongue, draw figure eights;
• a handkerchief or napkin is placed under the tongue to avoid dripping saliva.

Step 4: tongue twisters

A lot has been written about speech exercises with the help of tongue twisters. It is a pity that many stubbornly ignore this simple training of the speech apparatus. Even a few repetitions a day will help in improving articulation. By adding an exercise with pebbles in the mouth or a cork, you can double the effect of the tongue twister.
The main rule for choosing text for a lesson is an emphasis on sounds with which the child has problems. To improve classes, you can come up with your own tongue twisters.

Step 5: watch your breath

To find out how things are going with the improvement of speech, it will be very useful to record the story on video or audio. Sometimes it seems to us that we speak clearly, but others do not think so. To correct speech errors, it is important to learn how to breathe fully. It happens that words and letters are confused, because a person is used to speaking by swallowing half of the words. Train yourself to maintain even breathing while speaking.

How quickly we speak depends on the understanding of our speech by others. With children, this problem is solved by the example of adults. If everyone in the family speaks correctly, measuredly, then the child will have the right example before his eyes.

Do not neglect the opportunity to improve your speech and the speech of children. The ability to express your thoughts clearly, clearly, and in an accessible way is useful in all life situations. I wish you success!

01.03.2016

To improve diction and speech at home, without acting classes and individual work with a teacher, I recommend using a "dictaphone" and then two techniques. One for 10 minutes a day, the other for 10 to 45 minutes a day.

To complete the “Dictaphone” task, which will help you see yourself from the side, surprise yourself and really want to start working actively with your speech, we need the voice recorder itself. It can be a separate device or just a mobile phone that can perform the recording function.

So, we arm ourselves with a voice recorder and write our conversations with other people. After that, we listen to them and in the evening report we post our conclusions in a dialogue.

After recording yourself on the recorder, you will want to improve your speech. There are two techniques to help you.

First technique.

Patter 5 minutes a day with nuts in your mouth. Just five minutes, and the result will be stunning. Do everything in the order that I will now tell you to immediately see the result.

1. We take a voice recorder and write ourselves on it. We talk about anything for a minute. About how the day went or what is happening outside the window. Doesn't matter.

2. We listen to what they said.

3. We take nuts in the mouth. Walnuts, hazelnuts ... any. We speak tongue twisters for 5 minutes.

The ship ran aground. The sailors ate caramel aground for two weeks.

Greek rode across the river. He sees a Greek: there is cancer in the river. He put the hand of the Greek into the river, the crayfish by the hand of the Greek - tsap!

Cuckoo cuckoo bought a hood. Put on a cuckoo hood. How funny he is in the hood.

Carl stole the corals from Clara, And Clara stole the clarinet from Carl.

There is grass in the yard, firewood on the grass, Do not cut wood on the grass of the yard.

Eagle on the mountain, feather on the eagle, Mountain under the eagle, eagle under the feather.

4. We take the recorder again and say anything there again. After that, we listen to the recording and are amazed at the purity of the pronunciation of words and sounds ...

Second technique.

We read the book aloud. Every day from 10 to 30 minutes. As much as you can, if you can 45 minutes, it will be even better. Of course we do it with 200% diligence!

Everyone wants to change something in their speech.

School of Yuri Okunev

I happened to be stuck in an elevator today with a very interesting young man. Rather, the fact that this is an outstanding personality of enormous proportions, it turned out quite by accident, and then only a few hours later. This is perhaps the only time in my life when I was glad that our gallant emergency services had to wait a very long time. My unfortunate neighbor turned out to be an inconspicuous young man, with a trembling voice and an uncertainly cautious style of communication, and in order to understand what he was talking about, I had to listen and make extra efforts.

We might have spent hours of waiting in silence, if my eyes had not fallen on the book and the title page of the voluminous scientific work that he held in his hands. The book is a collection of poems - with his photograph and surname, and the scientific work is a Ph.D. thesis in nuclear physics by the same author.

After talking a little to my casual acquaintance, I found out that this is a very talented person, the winner of the All-Russian Olympiads, the inventor of innovative methods in science, and also a poet with an interesting style and an unusual written style. But the trouble is that it is almost impossible to understand this, since he simply has a terrible command of his voice and does not know how to express himself at all.

During communication with him, I had an irresistible desire to help, to explain how to develop diction and clarity of speech, to make speech understandable and pleasant to the ear. After all, it is not difficult at all!

My tongue is my friend

It is said that the voice most clearly conveys our personality. There are no people in the world with two identical voices. It is by ear by intonation that we can better understand what mood a person is in, assume what is in his soul and what he feels now.

Timidity in the voice usually indicates uncertainty, which makes a person seem weak and, for example, less qualified than he really is. Conversely, the ability to control yourself and your voice allows you to create the right impression, achieve your goals, influence people and promote your beliefs and ideals.

As often happens, many people think that diction and clear speech, the talent of a speaker are inherent in people from birth - either you are given it or not. Drop it! This is sheer stupidity. As in the case of other skills, everything can be achieved through painstaking work on yourself. There are effective exercises for developing diction. We will talk about them. By exercising for 15 minutes daily, you will get noticeable results in just seven days.

Exercise 1. Cork.

How can wine improve your articulation? Yes, very easy! You take a cork from a bottle (preferably at home the next day or some time later), clamp it with your teeth and start saying phrases. To begin with, take any piece of text that you like, it can also be a poem, and try to read it. At first, this will be very difficult, as the muscles of the articulatory apparatus overcome the resistance created by the cork.

Then take it out and say the same thing. Once "free", the muscles begin to work more smoothly, and the sounds are clear. Also, a very striking effect, if practiced regularly, is the pronunciation with a cork in the mouth of the so-called explosive consonants.

Practice on these groups of sounds:

1. pe-pe-pe, be-be-be, me-me-me;
2. te-te-te, de-de-de;
3. ke-ke-ke, ge-ge-ge.

The first group trains the muscles of the lips, the second develops the tip of the tongue, and the third strengthens its root. Do these exercises regularly for 5 minutes, and after a week you will find good results.

Exercise 2. Ligurian traffic controller

Nothing trains diction like complex tongue twisters. Good people by our time have come up with a lot of them and all sorts of varieties to work out a variety of problem areas. One of the most famous is called Liguria. This is a whole coherent text from well-known tongue twisters, which can quickly bring diction to the level of a speaker, both in a child and in adults. Try to read it quickly and clearly. You will definitely like it.

On Thursday, the 4th, at 4 and a quarter, the Ligurian traffic controller regulated in Liguria, but 33 ships tacked, tacked, but never caught, and then the protocol about the protocol was recorded by the protocol, as the interviewed Ligurian traffic controller was eloquently, but not purely he reported, and so reported about the wet weather that so that the incident would not become a contender for a judicial precedent, the Ligurian traffic controller acclimatized in unconstitutional Constantinople, where crested laughers laughed with laughter and shouted to the Turk, who was blackly stoned with a pipe: do not smoke, Turk, pipe, buy better a pile peak, better pick a pile, buy it, otherwise a bombardier from Brandeburg will come - he will bombard him with bombs because some black-nosed half of his yard has dug, dug and undermined with his snout; but in fact the Turk was not in business, and Klara-Kralya was sneaking to the chest at that time, while Karl was stealing corals from Clara, for which Klara stole the clarinet from Karl, and then in the yard of the tarry widow Varvara 2 these thieves stole firewood; but sin - not laughter - not to put it in a nut: about Clara and Karl in the darkness, all the crayfish rustled in a fight - so the thieves were not up to the scorer, but not up to the tarry widow, and not up to the tarry children; but the angry widow removed the firewood into the shed: one firewood, 2 firewood, 3 firewood - all the firewood did not fit, and 2 woodcutters, 2 woodcutters-woodcutters for Varvara, who became emotional, drove the firewood across the yard back to the woodyard, where the heron was stunted, the heron was dry, the heron died; the heron's chick clung tenaciously to the chain; well done against the sheep, and against the young man the sheep itself, which carries Senya hay in a sleigh, then carries Senka Sonya and Sanka on a sled: sled - lope, Senka - to the side, Sonya - on the forehead, everything - into a snowdrift, and from there only a cone cap knocked down, then Sasha went along the highway, Sasha found a sachet on the highway; Sonya, Sashka’s girlfriend, was walking along the highway and sucking dry food, and besides, Sonya the turntable also had 3 cheesecakes in her mouth - exactly in a honey cake, but she didn’t care for the honey cake - Sonya, even with cheesecakes in her mouth, reprimands the sexton, - overreacts: buzzing, like a ground beetle, buzzing, and spinning: she was at Frol’s - Frol lied to Lavra, she would go to Lavr to Frol, Lavra would lie that - a sergeant-major with a sergeant-major, a captain with a captain, a snake had a snake, a hedgehog had a hedgehog, and a high-ranking guest took him away cane, and soon again 5 guys ate 5 honey mushrooms and a quarter of a quarter of a quarter of lentils without a wormhole, and 1666 pies with whey curd from curdled milk - about everything about that, the stake bells rang with a ringing, so much so that even Konstantin - a Salzburg unpromising from - under an armored personnel carrier, he stated: as all the bells cannot be re-belled, not re-belled, so all tongue twisters cannot be re-speak, not re-speak; but trying is not torture.

Exercise 3

A lot of people don't like how their voice and pronunciation sound on a recording. And this is not just so, because all the mistakes and articulation far from ideal are immediately audible. Read passages into a tape recorder, listen to yourself, correct what sounds ugly and does not suit you.

Exercise 4. Breathing is life

One of the most important secrets of a beautiful voice is the correct diaphragmatic breathing. All singers, speakers and announcers breathe with their stomachs, not their chests. It is the diaphragm that creates such a flow of air, in which the vocal cords begin to vibrate cleanly and powerfully. Also practice distributing your breath so that it is enough for long sentences. To do this, inhale and, for example, pull one vowel until the air in the lungs runs out completely. Inflate balloons - this is also a very effective way to practice breathing when setting up a voice.

All tongue twisters do not re-speak, do not re-speak

Of course, all of the above is only a small part of all those methods that exist in order to make your speech clean and beautiful. Although even doing these exercises will take you to a whole new level. If you want to know more about this topic and be able to do better, I recommend. Working with her, you can reach unprecedented heights. She also has an entertaining book - "Speak beautifully and confidently." I also recommended them to my new friend, with whom we finally got out of the elevator, and I really hope that he will also quickly improve his speech. After all, he is an incredibly talented guy, and he so wants the world to hear him.

Feel free to reveal yourself to the world! Good luck with your diction training! On this I say goodbye to you for today - until we meet again, on the pages of the blog.

Speech abilities are given by nature, but they are far from always ideal. Sometimes speech sounds slurred, which can adversely affect the entire life of a person. It is hardly possible to build a good career if the words are forced to break through the "porridge in the mouth." How to improve diction? Are there special exercises? We'll talk about this.

To improve diction and clarity of speech, you need to learn how to breathe correctly. The following exercises will help with this:

1. We stand straight. Legs shoulder width apart. The palms lie on the belt. Inhale free. We exhale air through folded lips so that its resistance is felt. Such an exhalation must be carried out during movement. Imitate work with a scythe, with an ax, cleaning the house with a broom / vacuum cleaner and similar movements. You need to learn how to exhale evenly, without tension (tension in the lower costal muscles should be felt).
2. While inhaling, perform a slow forward bend. The back remains straight. Then we straighten up. We exhale and begin to pull the word "gimmmm", while walking in place.
3. While inhaling, we slowly lean forward, spread our arms to the sides, close behind the head (on the back of the head). We straighten up on the exhale and chant the sounds "GN", walking in place.
4. The mouth is closed. We take a short breath through the nose. While exhaling, we tap the edges of the nostrils with our fingers. Exercise improves nasal breathing. Now we add a new element: while exhaling, we draw the sounds "M" and "H".
5. The mouth is open. We inhale through the nose. Slow exhalation through the mouth.
6. Self-massage. With a little effort, we press the intercostal muscles, then move on to the abdomen. This helps stimulate local circulation.

We are working on the quality of diction

Performing certain exercises will help improve your diction. Classes must be carried out daily, because only in this case you can get quick results.

Exercises to improve speech and diction include training the muscles of the palate.

• Slowly say the sounds "K" and "G" in a row 3 times. Then say the sounds "A", "O", "E" with your mouth almost closed.
• Simulate mouthwash. The sensations should be similar, as if there were water in the mouth.
• The mouth is open to the width of two fingers. Say the syllables "AMM-AMM". At the same time, “A” sounds in a whisper, and “M” is loud and loud.

To improve your speech and diction, you need to perform exercises to relieve muscle clamps.

• Write a tongue twister on a piece of paper. Say it aloud, voicing only consonant sounds. In place of vowels - omissions. Then repeat it in full voice. This will help you understand in which position the articulation apparatus does not work properly.
• Take a deep breath and pinch your nose with your fingers. Read any text aloud. Breathe out. Start reading the text again, taking breaths in the places necessary for the meaning (in accordance with the grammatical pauses).

Articulation gymnastics

If you are interested in how to improve speech diction quickly, then you need to practice articulation gymnastics. Regular training guarantees an improvement in diction in the shortest possible time.

The complex includes the following exercises:

• There is a wide smile on his face. The teeth are clenched. We fix the position for 10 seconds. Then we relax. An important point: both rows of teeth should be fully visible.
• The teeth are clenched. The lips are folded into a tube, stretched forward. We pull the sound "U" for 10 seconds.
• The mouth is open, the tongue is pushed forward as far as possible. We fix the position for 5 seconds. We relax the muscles.
• The mouth is open. The tongue lies on the surface of the lower lip. Open your mouth as wide as possible and relax.
• Relax the lower jaw and fix this position. Lick your upper lip, extending your tongue as much as possible.
• Touch the tip of the tongue alternately with the upper and lower lip, pushing it forward. Do the exercise at a leisurely pace. The chin should remain motionless at all times.
• The mouth is closed. With the tongue, we put pressure on the inner surface of the cheek, applying force for 4 to 6 seconds. Repeat on the opposite side.
• The lower jaw is lowered down. We make movements from side to side. We keep the head straight. She does not participate in the movement. Then we move the jaw forward / backward.
• A full smile on his face. We draw the tip of the tongue along the inner surface of the lips. First along the top, then along the bottom, then we make a circular motion. The jaw is permanently fixed and does not move.
• There is a wide smile on his face. We draw the tongue along the surface of the teeth, first the upper ones, then the lower ones. The jaw is fixed and does not move.
• There is a wide smile on his face. We draw along the lip with the tongue from corner to corner. Lips and jaw do not move. It is necessary to touch the surface of the lips, not the teeth.
• Stand straight, arms on chest (crossed). We make a slow bend forward while inhaling, while loudly voicing the letters "O" and "U".

The tip of the tongue provides clarity of pronunciation of sounds. To improve diction, you need to improve its mobility.

• Use your tongue like a hammer to tap your teeth. During each stroke, say the syllable "YES". Then say the letters "T" and "D".
• To improve the diction of speech, it is necessary to develop the muscles of the larynx. This will help to establish a clear pronunciation of the sounds "K" and "G". We inhale through the nose and exhale through the mouth. As you exhale, begin to puff like a hedgehog - "FU-FU-FU." The syllable is pronounced sharply.
• To improve speech and diction will help training the muscles of the lips. This exercise improves the pronunciation of the sounds "P" and "B". We puff out our cheeks and clasp them with our hands, as in childhood.

Additional exercises

The ability to control the volume of air in the lungs will help improve diction and clarity of speech.

Stand in front of a mirror and read any text aloud with expression. First, do it in a familiar voice. Then read it again, but much louder. Performing this exercise daily, you will soon learn to control the fullness of the lungs and will be able to easily make speeches of any volume.

To improve diction in adults, this exercise will help:

• Write the lines of your favorite poem on a piece of paper.
• Cross out all the consonants, and sing the remaining vowels out loud.
• Then put in all the consonants again. Say them loudly, loudly, continuing to sing vowel sounds.

Performing a set of articulation exercises will help improve your speech and diction very quickly.

Improving the timbre of the voice

1. Stand straight. The chin is fixed in a natural position. We stretch the neck as far forward as possible, fix for a few seconds.
2. Open your mouth, pull your tongue as far forward / down as possible. The head is bowed to the chest. Raise the tongue to the tip of the nose while raising the head. During the movement, stretch the neck as far as possible.
3. We take a deep breath. While exhaling, we pronounce the word “BOMM” loudly, stretching out the last letter as long as possible. You should feel a slight vibration at the tip of your nose and upper lip.
4. Full breath. We release air from the lungs, pronouncing the syllable "MI-MII". The first part is short, the second is drawn out in a singsong voice.
5. Stand straight, hands on chest. As you inhale, lean forward and sing the letters "U" and "O" in a singsong voice. After that, sing the words "MILK", "FLOUR", "TIN".
6. Click your tongue, gradually changing the position of your lips. At first they are collected in a tube, at the end they are stretched into a full smile.
7. The mouth is open, the nose is pinched with fingers. We breathe through the mouth and at the same time read any text aloud. The duration of the exercise is 5 minutes.
8. Head down, chin pressed to chest. We exhale, pronouncing the sounds "O" or "U" until the air runs out. We put our hand on the chest and patting, we increase the vibration of the sound.

These exercises guarantee the improvement of speech and voice timbre in a short time.

Working on speaking

How to improve speech diction quickly? To achieve results, you will need to work on colloquial speech.

The tips are very simple, but greatly improve conversational speech.

Clean tongues

To improve diction and speech itself, you need to work on the pronunciation of tongue twisters. This will help to work out specific sounds with the help of specially rhymed phrases.

They differ from tongue twisters in that one consonant sound occurs repeatedly in them. This will help you learn how to pronounce complex sounds and improve your diction. You need to practice every day. Improving speech after working with tongue twisters occurs quite quickly.

You need to pronounce pure tongues at a slow pace. It is very important to carefully pronounce each sound, paying attention to sound combinations that are difficult for you.

You need to control your pronunciation. For this lesson, you must record on a voice recorder. While listening to the recording, you can identify the perfect pronunciation errors and eliminate them in the course of the next one.

Here are a few tips to help you be successful in self-study:

• first you need to start performing the simplest exercises to improve speech and diction, gradually, including more complex ones in classes;
• classes should be carried out at any free time - this will help to achieve results in a short time;
• it is desirable to carry out gymnastics daily, without taking breaks;
• make it a rule to periodically record short speeches on the recorder - this will help celebrate your achievements;
• read additional literature and regularly practice new exercises, since the monotony of exercises can cause moral fatigue and abandonment of classes;
• if there is an opportunity to get expert advice, then you should not refuse it, since this is a great opportunity to get additional practical advice.

If a person has the opportunity to attend theater courses, then this must be done. Classes with professionals will help you relax and master free speech. Specialists will teach expressive recitation, while diction, if not perfect, will improve significantly. And public speaking will no longer feel like a mission impossible.

Instruction

Stretch your tongue. To do this, move it from side to side, right-left, back and forth; make circular turns with your tongue in, fold it with a screw and a tube. Stick out the tip of your tongue and move it very quickly from one corner of your mouth to the other.

Feel the tip of your tongue, feel how active it is. Hit the inside of your teeth with the tip of your tongue, as if you were saying yes-yes-yes-yes. Vigorously pronounce the paired consonants: T-D, T-D, T-D.

Free your tongue and larynx by completing the task: take a quick, deep and short breath through your nose, then exhale completely through your mouth. The exhalation is made abruptly, the air is thrown out with the sound "FU" (while the cheeks fall).
To strengthen the muscles of the larynx, say the following consonants quickly and vigorously: K-G, K-G, K-G.

Work on the habit of taking a breath for each new phrase. When reading prose or poetry, consciously take a breath, as if in reserve, before each phrase.

Record on a cassette or disc a speech you like (an announcer or someone else), try to imitate this conversational manner.
Do not hesitate to engage in speech exercises, because your self-awareness, communication capabilities, etc. depend on it.

The voice is the most important element in assessing a person. If we like how a person speaks, then we will be pleased to communicate with him, and we will be happy to listen to him. Beautiful and smart speech- recipe for success.

You will need

• book, nuts

Instruction

The first and most important rule is reading. Read aloud 10 a day. This will help you cope with the shyness, as well as acquire the necessary skills. Thus, you will teach yourself to speak aloud, namely, not just colloquial speech Yu. It is best to use fiction rich in expressive in such. Remember that the most picky are the children. If the children listen to you carefully, then you have nothing to worry about, but, nevertheless, improve your skill constantly.

Develop the muscles of the lips and tongue. Take a mirror in your hands and make a proboscis with your lips, looking into it. Imagine that you want to kiss someone. Now smile, strongly stretching your lips. Do these exercises ten times alternately. To train your tongue, with the tip rest with all your might on one cheek, then on the other. Try to stretch your cheeks with your tongue. Then also rest against the lips from the inside.

Open your mouth and move your lower jaw in different directions. Feel how freely she moves. Do this exercise in front of a mirror until your jaw is slightly tired. If any movement makes you feel uncomfortable, repeat it several times. Tap frequently with your front teeth as if you were having a chill. This helps to free the lower jaw.

Choose your favorite poem or favorite passage from a book, memorize it and recite it in front of a mirror. Watch your mouth and face. Pronounce the text exaggeratedly, actively - this trains the speech apparatus well. Then the exaggeration will go away, but will remain.

Sources:

• Diction exercises
• how to develop muscles

Poor diction can bring a lot of problems in life. Fuzzy speech complicates communication and is the source of a number of psychological complexes. However, to develop a good diction in the absence of medical problems, it is quite easy and at home.

You will need

• - Dictaphone;
• - Tongue Twisters;
• - poetry.

Instruction

Start by doing breathing exercises. Take a comfortable position and try to take even, deep breaths in and out, controlling their rhythm. Gradually begin to vary your breathing, shortening the inhalations and lengthening the exhalations, and then vice versa. Try pronouncing different vowels as you exhale. Practice diaphragmatic breathing.

Do exercises for the articulatory apparatus. Do not worry that at first you will experience pain: they will gradually subside as the muscles become more elastic. Many problems with diction are due to weakness of the lips and tongue. By training the facial muscles, you can achieve clearer speech.

Train diction with the help of phrases. At first, pronounce each of them slowly, paying attention to the clear pronunciation of all sounds. Gradually build up the pace, still controlling the quality of the articulation. During exercises, strain the muscles of the face and lips, exaggerating the sounds.

Memorize and recite poetry. Such a method will not only help you put into practice the above methods of correcting diction, but will also allow you to end up with good poetic baggage. Read the poems clearly, with intonation pauses and with controlled breathing. A similar exercise can be done with songs.

Read prose aloud and record your speech on a voice recorder. At the same time, it is desirable that the sensitivity of the microphone be high enough: only in this case you will be able to catch all the nuances of pronunciation. Control the fluency of speech and the clarity of sounds.

Useful advice

If you have serious problems with diction that cannot be corrected on your own (for example, burr), it is advisable to consult a doctor. It is possible that you will need minor surgery.

Work on vocabulary and sentence construction. There are many examples of not only how to, but also what to say. After all, your speech will be considered correct only if you achieve the desired results with what you say. An excellent textbook in this sense will be Allan Pisa's "Speak Right..." and the movie "Thank you for smoking". For the rest, only basic advice can be given: read more.

Think about the conditions under which you will speak. When speaking from the podium, for example, there are some peculiarities that must be taken into account so as not to lull the viewer. The main point is that you can not "read from a sheet" - your sentences should not contain complex phrases, refined statements or an abundance of interjections. In such conditions, "beautiful to speak" means to speak freely, almost like in everyday life - but at the same time in a "set" voice and confident. It will be impossible to take your eyes off such a speaker, and most importantly, you yourself will begin to enjoy being on stage.

note

Never write your speech in detail. The more you have on paper, the more will be the desire to play it safe and look there.

Useful advice

Practice speaking in front of your friends. Performing for yourself and for people are completely different things.

Pay attention to the entertainer of various concerts. A professional presenter always has a reference speech.

Well-delivered and competent speech can be attributed to the category of undoubted advantages that have a significant impact on success in many cases. Despite the fact that oratory is an excellent tool for influencing others and achieving many goals, only a few can take full advantage of it. However, learning to speak correctly is a completely feasible task.