Speech production courses to speak beautifully. How to develop clear speech: basic techniques and exercises

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If you want to learn to speak beautifully, then to establish your voice and correct speech technique you need muscular freedom of phonation pathways and a sense of resonance, which should be developed.

Three rules for voice production

1. You need to start breathing correctly (diaphragmatic), free the larynx from the clamps and use the resonators

3. You can access the larynx only through breathing and resonators

Therefore, our main task is to develop correct speech breathing by influencing the larynx with the help of resonators. At the same time, we completely avoid direct influence on it. This happens when we speak as if “on a yawn.”

Feeling of freedom when speaking

Let's figure out how sounds appear in our speech. First, pressurized air passes through the vocal cords. As a result, they fluctuate. The important thing is that it is not these vibrations, but their response to resonators (different parts of the body), that determine the strength and timbre of the voice. Some of the powerful resonators are the facial part and trachea. Breathing, resonators and vocal cords are three parts of a single system. Speech technique and production depend on them.

The following types of resonators are distinguished:

1. Upper (or head)

The upper resonator is a cavity located in the front part of the head, above the palatine vault.

2. Lower (or chest)

The lower resonator covers the trachea and large bronchi.

3. Central

Includes the larynx.

By feeling the vibrations in the head resonator and chest area, you can enrich your voice timbre with overtones that will cause vibrations in the upper and lower resonators. However, you can achieve brightness, sonority, flight and quality of your voice only when its original timbre is correctly formed, to which the upper resonator responds. To do this, it is necessary to perform special exercises for voice training: they promote the free pronunciation of sounds in speech with sensations of the vibrations of these sounds in the head resonator.

Thus, to produce a voice, a speaker or speaker should learn to relax the muscles of the entire body. To begin, lie down on a sofa or bed and relax all your muscles one by one. Start with your legs - relieve tension from them. Next, follow the hands. Relax your face and neck. Finally, check your back and abdominal muscles. You should lie in this position for 4-5 minutes. Then stand up, keeping your whole body free. It is necessary to ensure that no muscle group is tense.

Human resonators

A set of exercises to relax the muscles of the phonation pathways

1. "Moan"

To perform this exercise, sit on a chair while keeping your back straight. Imagine that you have a sore throat and begin to moan quietly so that the pain goes away. But don’t grunt – this way your ligaments will be under tension, the sounds will be short, and your voice will turn out dull. Relax the muscles of your face, neck, arms and legs. Release your shoulders and leave your neck free so that your head is tilted down or to the side.

Next, start moving your head up, down, left, right. These movements should be done slowly, checking the freedom of the muscles. Continue to moan, but do not suppress your voice. Free moan, on the “middle note” of the voice. Pay attention to the mouth - it should be closed, and the lips should be only slightly closed - as when pronouncing the sound " m" Having achieved accuracy and correct technique for performing the exercise, feel the free flow of sounds. It will be much easier to make moans, and sounds will come out of the larynx freely.

Moaning and maintaining the same body position, smoothly and slowly lower your lower jaw, making the sound “Mmmmaaa”. And immediately close your mouth:

Mma-mma-mma-mma-mma

Sound " A“should be pronounced softly, the muscles of the lips and lower jaw are free. Accompany it with an even exhalation that does not weaken the moment your mouth opens. Do this exercise at least 3 times. The most important thing is to achieve muscle freedom and feel the work of only the breathing apparatus.

So, while continuing to moan, say in your voice the phrase “Mom, honey for us” as one word. When you open your mouth, immediately return it gently to its original position. Since the phrase is pronounced on a groan, the consonant sounds “ m" And " n» double:

Mumm-medunn-mumm

When performing the “moan” exercise in the future, accompany it with training in pronouncing sonorant consonants. Because they will give your voice a sonority, enhancing the work of the resonator in the nasal cavity.

Sonorant sounds are the consonants that are most sonorous. This "m", "n", "l", "r". Moan together, monotonously and quietly. Do not strain your throat or ligaments. The mouth opens freely when sounding vowels, but not too wide. Pay attention to sonorant consonants "m", "n", "l", "r".

Also, when moaning, train combinations of sonorant consonants with vowel sounds:

Mm – mA – mm – mO – mm – mU – mm – mI – mm – mY – mm – mE – mm…

Mm – mnA – mm – mnO – mm – mnU – mm – mnI – mm – mnY – mm – mnE – mm…

Mm – mnAli – mm – mnOli – mm – mnUli – mm – mnIli – mm – mnIli – mm – mnEli – mm…

Mm – RlArm – mm – RlOrm – mm – RlUrm – mm – RlIrm – mm – RlYrm – mm – RlErm – mm…

Now, having achieved freedom of sound, gradually raise and then lower your voice on each line. But no more than two or three tones from the average usual note. Keep your phonation pathways free.

To begin, say in a moaning, semi-chanting voice:

Mmmmmmmmmmmmm

Then three times in the same motion while moaning. And on the fourth we call mom in a voice:

Mmmmmmmmmm!

There are no changes in the speech apparatus – we feel freedom in the throat area. Only on “mam” did the diaphragm tremble slightly to support the sound.

Try to ensure that at the moment the voice sounds, the nature of your breathing also changes. This is necessary for proper voice support.

Say the already familiar phrase on a groan:

Mmmmedunnam

Here every word is sharp and abrupt:

Mam! honey! us!

Make sure that there is no excessive activity during speech pronunciation, to maintain freedom and lightness, as with moaning.

Practice combinations:

MMA! MMO! mmu! MMI! mmY! mme!

mnAli! many! mUli! I thought! thought! mnEli!

RlArm! RlOrm! RlUrm! RlIrm! RlYrm! RlErm!

2. Pronouncing vowels

After practicing combinations of sonorant consonants with vowels, you should begin to pronounce each vowel separately from the consonant. Here it is necessary to take into account that it is the vowels that create the melody of the voice that are the basis of sonority.

First, let's look at the concept of sound attack. It means the beginning of the sound of the speaking person's voice. Sound attack is the moment when the vocal cords stop at a certain sound note when they are closed with the force of an air stream. There are aspirated, hard and soft attack of sound.

An aspirated attack is when part of the air that does not take part in voice formation comes out before the ligaments close and then joins the voice as a sipota sound.

A hard attack is when the vocal folds close tightly before exhalation begins and only under strong pressure do the air streams open back up. It's like a burst of air passing through tightly closed lips. Often this occurs when the ligaments overlap, that is, when they overlap each other. When they are firmly closed and there is a sharp push of the air stream, the voice will sound harsh, callous, and it will lose intonation mobility.

A soft attack occurs when the vocal cords are closed and the breath is sent at the same time. The already well-known “moaning” exercise with its variations helps to achieve it. The speaker should strive for a soft attack, which is natural for the formation of the voice. In this case, the closure of the vocal folds coincides with the beginning of exhalation, and they come together so that free vibration is ensured. With a soft attack, your voice will have the best timbre: it will be born smoothly and without shocks. You should learn to recognize and feel what kind of attack the voice is born from. And until the attack of the sound is mastered, until you feel with your muscles the soft beginning of the sound and the sensation of reflecting the attack, you cannot go further in.

3. "Lullaby"

Imagine rocking a baby to sleep and softly humming the phrase of a lullaby:

M – m – m – m – m – m – m...

And hum this melody on all vowels, achieving a soft attack of the sound:

A - a - a - a - a - a - a ...

Oh - oh - oh - oh - oh - oh - oh...

Oooh – ooh – ooh – ooh – ooh – ooh...

E-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-uh...

You should remember the state of muscle freedom in the pharynx and the feeling as if you are “pumping” vowel sounds with your diaphragm.

By opening your mouth wide, you thereby facilitate better removal of sound energy outward. Therefore, it is necessary to achieve freedom of the muscles of the lower jaw and avoid a position where the teeth are clenched. By unclenching them in time, you will make your voice “flying”, getting rid of constriction.

It is worth noting that there is no one-size-fits-all mouth solution. It all depends on the speech apparatus and the nature of each person’s voice. The degree of mouth opening is determined by both the most distinct and clear pronunciation of sounds and the highest quality vocal sound.

4. “I want honey and milk”

This exercise helps to relax the lower jaw and relieve stiffness of the speech apparatus.

Imagine that you are “sick” again. Contact your mother on a groan:

Oh, I'm sick. Ay - ah - ah! Give me milk and honey, mom!

Open your mouth well, but don’t overdo it: everything should be natural. Lower your jaw gently down, not to the side. Pronounce the text in a drawn-out voice. Look for light vocal sounds at different pitches:

Ahyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyay

5. "Dictation"

Like the previous one, this exercise will teach you to relax your jaw and relieve stiffness. Here we also use text with frequent repetition of the vowel sound “ A».

Dictate clearly, without rushing:

On an atom, on an atom, on an atom

The attacking longboat is sailing towards the attack.

He's an atom, he's an atom, he's an atom

Made him work for us.

For the first time - according to the words, “they had time to write it down.” Deliver punctuation using precise intonation and semantic patterns. The second time, dictate phrases, which you pronounce together, without pauses. When pronouncing the vowel sound “a” behind the freedom of the lower jaw.

When dictating, a calm message of sound relieves constriction in the throat and removes low voice. Do not send your voice too far forward - this in turn will strain the vocal apparatus. On the contrary, develop a feeling of what you are saying by sending the sound closer, “to yourself.” How can this be achieved? Set a goal to attract the attention of listeners. Before starting your speech, mentally say: “Attention, I’m starting!” And your voice will sound inviting, calm, and your speech will attract the attention of the audience.

The feeling of freedom of the larynx ensures the correct vocal sound. A lower, calmer position of the larynx is trained with exercises on: “ A», « O», « at».

6. "Echo"

Say "Aww" three times. The first time – call, the second “ay” sounds like a distant echo, and the third time – respond to the echo. Watch the sound of your voice and what happens to the muscles of your lips and cheeks.

When the voice sounds on the echo, the cheeks and lips should be relaxed, the sound resonates in the back of the head. When you respond to an echo, the corners of your lips and cheeks become tense, causing the sound to resonate closer, in your elongated lips. Perform this exercise, paying attention to the tension and relaxation of the muscles of your lips and cheeks.

Various exercises with the sound “u” will help you remove the pretentiousness of the sound of vowels. When " A"flies out of the stomach, " O" - hums as if in a barrel, " And" - squeezes out of a constricted throat, " e" - from the glottis, and " s», « at», « yu“They end up in places from which you can’t get them out.

7. "Buzz"

uuuuuu...

Now, having connected all six vowels in one line, hum with your voice:

uuAuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu…

Try to keep your lips in the " at" This will help you achieve a uniform quality in the other vowels.

Wow! Whoa! Oui! Ouch! Wow!…

Sounds “a”, “o”, “i”, “s”, “e” as if they were held on the lips.

If " A"You sound far away, a vowel will help bring it closer" O" Since when pronouncing this sound, the lips take the shape of an oval and retain the sound in the lips. To practice a soft attack, read when pronouncing vowel sounds “ A" And " O»:

Not on the path

And “o” rolled around,

And groaned.

"Oh" - gasp,

"o" - groan,

not along the path, but around it!

Speak so I can see you! (Socrates)

Indeed, speech is our calling card. As soon as you speak, the interlocutor immediately draws conclusions about character, mood, place of birth, social origin, education and culture... It is the qualitative characteristics of speech, that is, the way we speak, that are primarily perceived as our image. Therefore, it is so important to make a dull, weak, pinched voice beautiful, rich and expressive, to remove nasal or hoarseness, sluggish articulation, diction defects, and spoken deviations. To do this, take a diction course in “Republic X” and you will be able to freely reveal your individuality and achieve your goals in speech communication.

Duration

The duration of the practical public speaking course is 10 lessons/20 hours/2 lessons per week for 2 hours (7 lessons/21 hours/2 lessons per week for 3 hours).

What is included in the course program

6 out of 10 lessons of the course are trainings on speech techniques:
gymnastics to overcome vocal tensions and clamps,
strengthening the respiratory muscles,
voice production,
expanding the vocal range,
diction correction,
getting rid of talking
articulation,
speech intonation,
breathing exercises by Strelnikova,
breathing training by Terzopoulos,
practice of speaking with tongue twisters, poetic and prose texts, sight reading of complex texts;
speech duels.

4 classes are devoted to the development of memory and vocabulary of the speaker, non-verbal techniques and the ability to captivate the audience with your speech.

There are no more than 15 people in a group.

The cost of participation in trainings is indicated in the section

How are the trainings conducted?

Correct speech and diction courses are intensive training. Listeners do breathing-vocal gymnastics, lying on mats, sitting, standing; practice pure pronunciation at articulation and diction trainings, reading poetry, tongue twisters, and complex texts; do homework and speak in public; analyze the results from video recordings and receive personal recommendations. Classes are intensive, in a comfortable and fun environment.

This course will help:

1. Development of natural voice and speech.
2. Mobilize your voice before speaking.
3. Relieve the fear of going out to the audience.
4. The ability to speak clearly and expressively.
5. Articulate speech in order to always be heard and understood.

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Our team

• Victor Vladimirovich Markhasev- author of a method for developing stage speech (trained in the USA), more than 4 thousand students, more than 25 years of coaching experience working with businessmen and politicians. Honored Worker of Culture of the Russian Federation, actor, director. Students of Viktor Vladimirovich Markhasev - Vladimir Mashkov, Irina Apeksimova, Sergey Garmash, Evgeny Mironov and others.
• Irina Anatolyevna Avtushenko– one of the most effective trainers in speech technique, candidate of art history, author of textbooks “Stage Speech and Emotional Hearing”, “Development of Emotional Hearing in Stage Speech Lessons”, “Workbook on Orthoepy”. Conducts regular training in stage speech for theater actors in Russia and abroad; classes on working on text, speech techniques with politicians, businessmen and TV and radio presenters.
• Kirill Ivanchenko- graduate of the Theater Institute named after. B. Shchukina, actor, trained in stage speech with Viktor Markhasev.

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Many consider competent speech to be a talent that is given to a select few and is necessary only in some areas of activity. In fact, everyone should think about how to develop speech. After all, good diction makes you listen to the person speaking and trust his opinion more. In addition, such a skill often contributes to career growth, especially if performing job duties requires frequent communication with people.

Basic techniques and exercises for speech development

Below we present the most effective exercises to improve your diction. Clear speech and a well-trained voice are the result of long and hard work on oneself. Therefore, it is necessary to perform these exercises regularly, and not occasionally, because this is the only way you will make progress in the development of your speech.

Warm-up for the articulatory apparatus

Before performing any exercises aimed at developing diction, short warm-ups will help you to prepare yourself for clarity of pronunciation. One of her options is to tightly clench a pencil with your teeth and say a phrase approximately 10-15 words long. Then take out the pencil and say the same phrase again. In order not to think about choosing a text every time, you can use any poem when performing this exercise.

Exercises aimed at improving their mobility and accuracy will also help you begin to speak better and strengthen the muscles of the organs involved in the speech process. After all, these are the characteristics that are required for the development of diction and high-quality pronunciation of sounds.

As you know, the most mobile organ of articulation is the tongue. Therefore, most of gymnastics is connected with it. There are many exercises, the regular implementation of which will eliminate the need to think about the question of how to develop speech. For example, you can stick out your tongue and try to reach it first to the chin, and then to the nose. Or, as if using a brush, use smooth movements to draw lines from the teeth to the larynx.

Pronouncing phrases with artificially complicated articulation

Tongue twisters for developing diction are considered a classic training option. With their help, you can practice clearly pronouncing different consonants in a calm environment. To achieve excellent results, it is enough to devote at least 5-10 minutes to exercise every day. However, to develop good diction there is one important rule: each phrase must be pronounced at a slow, medium and very fast pace.

You can start training with the simplest sentences, which teach you to clearly pronounce one or two sounds. For example, these could be:

There are also more complex phrases that help you understand how to learn to speak words clearly and quickly, in which the pronunciation of two or more sounds in difficult combinations is practiced:

• The talker said to the talkers: “I said, don’t tell the talker that the talker has started talking,” the talker has a talker. The talker began to speak, and the talker’s throat began to talk slightly, and then the talker said finally: “Stop talking, talker talker.”
• The commander spoke about the colonel and about the colonel, about the lieutenant colonel and about the lieutenant colonel, about the lieutenant and about the lieutenant, about the second lieutenant and about the second lieutenant, about the ensign and about the ensign, about the ensign, but was silent about the ensign.
• There is firewood in the yard, firewood behind the yard, firewood under the yard, firewood above the yard, firewood along the yard, firewood across the width of the yard, the yard cannot accommodate firewood! We'll probably move the wood from your yard back to the wood yard.
• The cap is not sewn in the Kolpakov style, the bell is not poured in the Kolokolov style, the cap needs to be re-packed, re-capped, re-forged, re-capped.
• The snake was bitten by the snake. I can't get along with the snake. From horror it has become narrower - the snake will eat it for dinner and say: “Start over.”

Pronouncing tongue twisters

There are also special tongue twisters for developing diction and eliminating problems with the pronunciation of certain sounds. A good way to figure out what exactly needs to be corrected is to listen to your own speech from the outside. Once the problems have been identified, you can begin to work on developing your diction.

First you need to learn how to pronounce an isolated sound correctly. Then it is necessary to achieve differentiation in speech of similar sounds, for example, “s” and “sh” or “r” and “l”. Pronouncing special phrases can be a significant help in correcting your speech, for example:

• Lara played the lyre.
• Forty mice walked and found forty pennies, and two poorer mice found two pennies each.
• The Ligurian traffic controller was regulating in Liguria.
• A Cossack with a saber galloped towards Sashka to play checkers.
• Sasha walked along the highway and sucked on a dryer. Beavers wander into the cheese forests. Beavers are brave, but they are kind to beavers.
• The bull is blunt-lipped, the bull is blunt-lipped, the bull has a white lip and is blunt.
• There was a white-winged ram, which killed all the rams.
• I was at Frol’s, I lied to Frol about Lavra, I’ll go to Lavra, I lie to Lavra about Frol.

You should move on to working on the next sound only after you have achieved the correct pronunciation of the first sound.

Reading aloud

In addition to speaking tongue twisters, it is also useful to read aloud to develop diction. Recording your voice on a voice recorder can be a good incentive. Few people, having heard their speech, would not want to improve it. By reading passages from books and making audio recordings, you can practice your pronunciation until it becomes almost perfect.

How to learn to speak so that it is really pleasant and interesting to listen to you? When reading aloud, avoid monotony and change your intonation. In addition, it is worth changing the volume and speed of reading, learning to highlight the most important points with pauses. But at the same time, control your speech so that such pauses are appropriate and not too long.

Also, do not lose sight of the fact that a calm and confident voice is best perceived by others. Whether he will be like this largely depends on the mood and internal state of a person, his ability to control emotions. However, by developing diction, you can learn to speak calmly and convincingly. For example, why not imagine yourself as a politician and talk about the state of the economy in the country while sitting in front of a mirror?

Vocabulary expansion

Another important aspect that needs to be taken into account is the need for constant intellectual development and replenishment of vocabulary. A well-developed person can carry on a conversation in any situation and find the right words. To become just like this, you should read more, solve crossword puzzles more often and attend various trainings on.

If you devote even a few minutes every day to working on improving your diction, within a few months you will begin to speak well, and your voice itself will be transformed beyond recognition. Moreover, all the efforts made will undoubtedly be rewarded over time.

Diaphragm training

In the question of how to deliver a speech, a very important aspect is the ability to control breathing. Without it, the text may be interrupted by pauses and breaths in places where this violates its meaning or worsens its emotionality. As a result, speech will become abrupt, and the meaning of what is said is perceived worse.

Therefore, one of the first exercises to develop diction should be training to develop proper breathing:

• Place your feet shoulder-width apart, straighten your spine, place one hand on your chest and the other on your stomach. Inhaling through your nose, push your stomach forward. Then calmly exhale air through a small hole in your lips, returning your chest and stomach to their original position.
• To start speaking better over time, you can make the exercise more difficult. To do this, try to maintain proper breathing and at the same time walk, run in place, imitate chopping wood or sweeping the floor.
• You can improve the development of diction using the following exercise. To begin, inhale calmly, and as you exhale, hold out any vowel for as long as possible. When you can hold a vowel for more than 25 seconds, try changing the tone of your voice.

Main causes of speech problems

It is impossible to achieve positive results in the development of diction if you do not understand the causes of speech disorders. Only rarely are they associated with health problems and develop, for example, due to an abnormal jaw structure or a short frenulum of the tongue.

For many people, speech problems are caused by incorrect pronunciation of whistling and hissing sounds, as well as the absence of the “L” or “R” sounds, or a violation of their pronunciation. A weakened articulatory apparatus may also be the cause.

Even if a person can speak well, pronouncing all sounds correctly, in particularly significant situations his speech may become slurred and unclear. After all, when pronouncing words, the articulatory apparatus needs to very quickly switch from one movement to another. This can only be achieved through active and intensive work of the muscles that need to be trained, for example, by regularly pronouncing tongue twisters for diction.

However, the main reason for slurred, quiet speech is a person’s shyness and lack of self-confidence. In such a situation, the development of diction is a secondary problem. First of all, you need to work on your own character and fight complexes.

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The development of oratory at all times took place according to the classical scheme: a master (who is also a teacher), who had achieved great success in oratory, passed on his knowledge to students or free listeners who gathered for meetings. We did not deviate from this tradition, so each lesson will be held in a group, and it will be conducted for you by an experienced teacher - a true master of oratory, and also a professional, accomplished in one of the public professions directly related to the impeccable quality of speech. This is television, radio or acting.

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How nice it is to listen to a person whose speech is competent and interesting at the same time. Unfortunately, there are very few such people. Most often, the vast majority are tongue-tied, cannot construct both grammatically and stylistically, and use a poor vocabulary. And if such people also have to speak in front of the public, then the latter is worthy of regret.

Components of beautiful speech

Speech technique is a combination of several components, knowing which you can gradually learn. It includes several factors. And the main one among them is diction. Speech technique would be impossible without clear pronunciation of sounds - vowels and especially consonants. It seems that speaking clearly and clearly is easy. In reality, things are exactly the opposite, and learning diction can take a lot of time.

In addition, it is very important to be able to speak convincingly and emotionally. This is how you can control and influence your audience. Expressive, lively speech can captivate people so much that they agree with all the arguments of the speaker, without wanting to.

And one more thing. It's important to know what to say. Speech technique hides many nuances that simply need to be taken into account and kept in mind constantly.

Maybe see a speech therapist?

It may very well be that you will have to remember such a specialist, despite the fact that you have already passed the age when he is so necessary. Some people have a real mess in their mouth, and some sounds are pronounced completely wrong.

Sometimes just understanding what you are doing wrong is enough to start speaking correctly. But it often happens that it is very difficult to correct the situation, so you shouldn’t even start. History knows many examples of famous speakers who had unproduced sounds, but this did not stop them from winning over the audience.

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And one more nuance. Almost each of us speaks very quickly, “eating” many words and endings. In everyday life this is normal, because dialogue reigns here - if you didn’t hear, you can ask again. Although, of course, you need to strive to be clean and beautiful. Well, even more so on the podium! After all, here one side is already listening, and sometimes it’s very difficult to figure out what the speaker wanted to say. What are we actually seeing?

Correct breathing

Breathing tends to cause a lot of confusion among people. We all breathe and cannot exist without it. What's so complicated about this? However, there are difficulties, and considerable ones. The speaker is like a singer or a musician who plays a wind instrument, who simply needs the correct breathing. It is this that will help maintain the clarity of the narration, the correct intonation, and will not allow the voice to break in the wrong place.

There are several, namely: thoracic, in which the shoulders rise upward, abdominal and diaphragmatic. As a rule, women breathe from the chest, unlike men. Perhaps this is why there are fewer good speakers among the fair half of humanity. After all, this art requires diaphragmatic breathing, that is, one in which the diaphragm works.

To set it up, you need to perform simple exercises, but it is important to do it regularly. After a short period of constant and persistent exercise, which in its load is no different from physical exercise, you will notice that you will begin to breathe completely differently.

How to train breathing?

Correct speaking technique includes daily exercises to develop and optimize the respiratory system. We always speak while exhaling, and it is especially important that it be long, but not lead us to exhaustion. Unlike exhalation, inhalation should be vigorous and short. Otherwise there would be long, awkward pauses between words. Although in themselves they are also simply necessary for beautiful speech, nevertheless, these intervals should not be prolonged. That is why it is necessary to perform exercises for long inhalations, and you need to ensure that the air fills the diaphragm area, and then slowly, in portions, is consumed. At the same time, there is no need to bring yourself to a state where a person has already used up all the air, but continues to speak. It doesn't look very nice. It’s better to stop and “take your breath” again.

Diction also requires training

At the same time as performing breathing exercises, do not forget about diction. She should devote a small amount of time, 10-15 minutes daily. Very soon you will notice how your speech will become clear and well understood by others. There are many different diction exercises. But first you need to soberly evaluate your speech. To do this, it will be enough to simply record your voice on a voice recorder, and then listen to the recording very carefully. It would be a good idea to ask someone else to evaluate your diction; perhaps strangers will notice something that escapes your attention and hearing.

So, pay attention to the following points:

• Consonant sounds. What are they: correct or not, do we swallow them?
• What soft consonants sound like.
• How do you pronounce consonants at the junction of two words.
• How to pronounce unstressed vowels.
• How do consonants sound in different parts of a word?

Typically, you will notice some general trend or error. Perhaps others will hear something else while listening to the recording. All this is a front for the upcoming work on voice and speech in general.

Concept of articulation

In general, we can say that diction and articulation are one and the same thing. There are articulatory muscles that are involved in the process of sound formation, and they need to be trained. These muscles form the correct sounds, which is why it is important that they are strong and strong.

To strengthen them, you can and should do special exercises, which includes a set of exercises for the tongue, jaws, lips and even cheeks.

You can simply make faces, and then lightly massage your cheeks and lips. In addition, there are a lot of exercises for children with speech therapy problems. The most common of them are the “needle”, when you need to make the tongue sharp and stretch as high as possible in the nose, and the “shovel”, when the tongue is as relaxed as possible.

Search for a teacher

If you are very concerned about speaking technique, courses are the best thing you need. You can spend a long time learning to speak beautifully and correctly at home and not notice gross mistakes that nullify all your efforts. An experienced teacher and mentor will correct you in time and will not allow the mistake to take hold. The teacher’s speech technique will act as a standard and guiding star that will not let you go astray. It is the specialist who will tell you when you are quite ready to speak in front of people, and will stop you if it is too early and you still need to practice.

What and how to say?

So, even if you have been practicing diction and positioning the breathing apparatus for a long time, but you don’t know what to say, then it’s too early for you to speak. It is necessary that beautiful turns and phrases ripen in your head in time, the right words are remembered in time, and speech flows like a stream. For this purpose, you just need to read a lot and think about different topics. You need to try to find synonyms for many words and expand your vocabulary.

It is also very important to monitor the pace of speech. Many people chatter without noticing it. This makes it very difficult to fully perceive speech. We need to watch the pace at which we speak, it is not that difficult. At first you will have to pay attention to this, and then it will become a habit.

Gesticulation

Gestures are our second language. We simply need it, but there are rules here too. There shouldn't be too many gestures. Sweeping movements are also very distracting. That's why you need to learn to control your body. There is a whole science that studies facial expressions and gestures. Even a superficial acquaintance with her will be of great benefit, because you will learn to read body language at least a little. Every gesture should be thought through. First, study and objectively analyze the movements that you often use, and then make adjustments.

It is advisable to think through all gestures in advance, rehearse in front of a mirror, and demonstrate to your best friends.

If you tell everyone: “I want to speak beautifully... Speech techniques are so complicated!”, then you are unlikely to achieve anything. Beautiful and correct speech goes hand in hand with faith in one’s strength and success. All of them are necessary for almost each of us, because success and self-confidence are one of the main components of the modern world.

Practice - and you will undoubtedly succeed!