Public speaking tips:
These exercises should be done for 15 minutes in the morning daily. If not daily try to set aside a time each week at least to practice your craft. Rest and you rust. Refine your talent through practice.
Read the Bible or read some poetry. While reading record yourself on audio or on a video recorder. Watch and listen to the recording after your done. When you do these below exercises, with time, you will watch yourself grow. It can be spontaneous or written down.
AN easy way to do this is by going on Facebook or YouTube and recording the speech. You can delete it afterward or have the recording made private. This is optional: but the best way to grow in speech delivery (in the internal rewiring of the mind) is to do it publicly.
Practice reading in four different ways to enhance those ways.
A. Read a passage below with the focus and aim to improve in your speech in that area.
B. After giving the speech analyze the speech. Things to look for...
1. Read a passage first with the focus on speaking with passion/feeling. The more you do this, the more such tones will be reflected in your speech.
A. Watch passionate/emotional speeches online or audio deliveries.
You can do this on YouTube by googling said themes or by watching/listening to such content from the brotherhood.
You can even even practice speaking the words along with the audio/video to help train the mind to speak in the verbal patterns you are hearing.
2. After doing this above exercise, read another passage with articulation, (clearly pronouncing the word).
A thing to do, that I recommend, (though silly), is to turn your finger sideways, and place that finger into your mouth. Note: "Demosthenes (384 BC–322 BC) was the greatest orator of ancient Greece. He overcame stuttering by speaking with pebbles in his mouth to improve articulation." I am not saying to put rocks into your mouth, that may not go well with you, as a choking hazard. But if you put the side of your finger into your mouth and try reading a passage, you will notice a improvement with articulation.
Also, practicing tongue twisters can help. It can help you become more nimble on your feet with word play. This can become useful, when reading hard to pronounce names in the Bible, etc.
Here are some tongue twister exercises, (www.smart-words.org/tongue-twisters.html).
More tongue twisters can be found on Google, etc.
3. Read a passage of the Bible or a poem with inflection, (inflection means to give a word life. If you say "love," make them feel the meaning of the word, if you say "forest," make them feel the meaning of the word, etc).
For improving in inflections: I'd suggest this exercise. Imagine in your mind an image of people/friends caring for each other, (in behavior) if your trying to invoke vocal inflection in the word "love."
If you mention the word, "forest," think about a forest and the senses involved in being in a forest. It may be hard, but the more you just intend to invoke a word, the less effort/concentration you will need to invoke it. The more you practice the better you get. Though this is hard at first, with time such behavior will come naturally.
4. Read with rhythm, this may be hard, but practice, practice and more practice, will lead to results. May sound awkward and not sound right doing this exercise at first, (as with any of the above exercises), but the more you practice, the more natural you will become in this exercise.
If your not sure what "rhythm" speech is, go to YouTube and watch the motivational speaker, Les Brown https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlUMrzwmbyo
Rhythm has tempo, kind of like music, it moves up and down, it pauses, it moves with beat and life.
Watch other motivational speeches/video's to listen, to "rhythm."
https://www.youtube.com/playlist…
5. Reading words correctly: Examples of what I mean...
* Saying hard to pronounce words right.
(Exercise: Practice reading OT genealogies).
* Saying things just as they are written in a book
(Exercise: Read a poem or Bible chapter quickly. The more you do this the better you will get).
6. Is my speech eloquent? Look for ways to improve in this. I encourage you to watch "motivational videos" online or listen to preachers in the brotherhood you deem as good speakers. We can learn from such people.
Demosthenes would study the best orators of his time to grow as an orator. The famous Roman statesman Cicero said of him "inter omnis unus excellat ("he stands alone among all the orators"), and also acclaimed him as "the perfect orator" who lacked nothing. Demosthenes lived in ancient Athens as one of histories best orators. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demosthenes
7. When you record yourself on video, you can also analyze the facial gestures
* You don't want to show the wrong expressions for the themes you are presenting.
* You don't want to appear (facially) nervous or uncomfortable.
* You want to convey the emotion and expressions of the speech themes your conveying.
Do these exercises regularly. The more frequently you do this the more you will improve in public speaking.
(If you read the pages before this one, you will be shown keys to dealing with social anxiety and nervousness, in the public forum).
When you practice speaking and analyze the speech each day, you will improve your vocal skills quickly. Too many preachers spend 40 years without self inflection on their delivery. You may notice such men, by they're dry tone and delivery.
If you do anything for 15 minutes a day, you will grow in the focus you aim at. This is true in public speaking exercises. Preachers who only speak 2-3 times a week, (in church) will only grow with the time investment they place on speech-craft. Note: if 15 minutes a day is to much, reduce it to 10 or 5 minutes a day. The point is to do these exercises daily and work on the skills trough analyzes regularly. If doing these exercise daily is to much for you. Set aside days or a day that works to invest into your craft. Start small if you must, but try to do more, as you grow and get used to these exercises.
Remember, like in anything in life, (fitness, memorization, social skills, etc.) the less you do of speech work, the greater the rust accumulation...with time.
When you stop speech work altogether in your life, you will...lose this gift. Your skills will grow dull. But the more you invest in this skill in presentation and analysis, the more you will grow in this talent. Keep the talent honed sharp. Make this practice part of your life. Make this routine a habit.
AN easy way to do this is by going on Facebook or YouTube and recording the speech. You can delete it afterward or have the recording made private. This is optional: but the best way to grow in speech delivery (in the internal rewiring of the mind) is to do it publicly.
Practice reading in four different ways to enhance those ways.
A. Read a passage below with the focus and aim to improve in your speech in that area.
B. After giving the speech analyze the speech. Things to look for...
1. Read a passage first with the focus on speaking with passion/feeling. The more you do this, the more such tones will be reflected in your speech.
A. Watch passionate/emotional speeches online or audio deliveries.
You can do this on YouTube by googling said themes or by watching/listening to such content from the brotherhood.
You can even even practice speaking the words along with the audio/video to help train the mind to speak in the verbal patterns you are hearing.
2. After doing this above exercise, read another passage with articulation, (clearly pronouncing the word).
A thing to do, that I recommend, (though silly), is to turn your finger sideways, and place that finger into your mouth. Note: "Demosthenes (384 BC–322 BC) was the greatest orator of ancient Greece. He overcame stuttering by speaking with pebbles in his mouth to improve articulation." I am not saying to put rocks into your mouth, that may not go well with you, as a choking hazard. But if you put the side of your finger into your mouth and try reading a passage, you will notice a improvement with articulation.
Also, practicing tongue twisters can help. It can help you become more nimble on your feet with word play. This can become useful, when reading hard to pronounce names in the Bible, etc.
Here are some tongue twister exercises, (www.smart-words.org/tongue-twisters.html).
More tongue twisters can be found on Google, etc.
3. Read a passage of the Bible or a poem with inflection, (inflection means to give a word life. If you say "love," make them feel the meaning of the word, if you say "forest," make them feel the meaning of the word, etc).
For improving in inflections: I'd suggest this exercise. Imagine in your mind an image of people/friends caring for each other, (in behavior) if your trying to invoke vocal inflection in the word "love."
If you mention the word, "forest," think about a forest and the senses involved in being in a forest. It may be hard, but the more you just intend to invoke a word, the less effort/concentration you will need to invoke it. The more you practice the better you get. Though this is hard at first, with time such behavior will come naturally.
4. Read with rhythm, this may be hard, but practice, practice and more practice, will lead to results. May sound awkward and not sound right doing this exercise at first, (as with any of the above exercises), but the more you practice, the more natural you will become in this exercise.
If your not sure what "rhythm" speech is, go to YouTube and watch the motivational speaker, Les Brown https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlUMrzwmbyo
Rhythm has tempo, kind of like music, it moves up and down, it pauses, it moves with beat and life.
Watch other motivational speeches/video's to listen, to "rhythm."
https://www.youtube.com/playlist…
5. Reading words correctly: Examples of what I mean...
* Saying hard to pronounce words right.
(Exercise: Practice reading OT genealogies).
* Saying things just as they are written in a book
(Exercise: Read a poem or Bible chapter quickly. The more you do this the better you will get).
6. Is my speech eloquent? Look for ways to improve in this. I encourage you to watch "motivational videos" online or listen to preachers in the brotherhood you deem as good speakers. We can learn from such people.
Demosthenes would study the best orators of his time to grow as an orator. The famous Roman statesman Cicero said of him "inter omnis unus excellat ("he stands alone among all the orators"), and also acclaimed him as "the perfect orator" who lacked nothing. Demosthenes lived in ancient Athens as one of histories best orators. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demosthenes
7. When you record yourself on video, you can also analyze the facial gestures
* You don't want to show the wrong expressions for the themes you are presenting.
* You don't want to appear (facially) nervous or uncomfortable.
* You want to convey the emotion and expressions of the speech themes your conveying.
Do these exercises regularly. The more frequently you do this the more you will improve in public speaking.
(If you read the pages before this one, you will be shown keys to dealing with social anxiety and nervousness, in the public forum).
When you practice speaking and analyze the speech each day, you will improve your vocal skills quickly. Too many preachers spend 40 years without self inflection on their delivery. You may notice such men, by they're dry tone and delivery.
If you do anything for 15 minutes a day, you will grow in the focus you aim at. This is true in public speaking exercises. Preachers who only speak 2-3 times a week, (in church) will only grow with the time investment they place on speech-craft. Note: if 15 minutes a day is to much, reduce it to 10 or 5 minutes a day. The point is to do these exercises daily and work on the skills trough analyzes regularly. If doing these exercise daily is to much for you. Set aside days or a day that works to invest into your craft. Start small if you must, but try to do more, as you grow and get used to these exercises.
Remember, like in anything in life, (fitness, memorization, social skills, etc.) the less you do of speech work, the greater the rust accumulation...with time.
When you stop speech work altogether in your life, you will...lose this gift. Your skills will grow dull. But the more you invest in this skill in presentation and analysis, the more you will grow in this talent. Keep the talent honed sharp. Make this practice part of your life. Make this routine a habit.
