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Diction Exercises
- to make sure they get your message
Why should you do diction exercises?
Because your speech content may be great, you may look fantastic but unless your audience can UNDERSTAND what you're saying, your message is lost. Diction exercises will help you learn how to speak clearly. An athlete does warm-ups and stretches before an event: a singer does likewise. These exercises are the speaker's warm-up equivalent. They prepare and train you to speak with ease. The specific benefits of diction/articulation exercises are: strengthening and stretching the muscles involved in speech bringing to your attention habitual speech patterns which may be less than perfect. Good diction is NOT about changing your accent or making you 'talk posh'. It is about clarity - making sure what you say is heard. The most commonly known and used diction exercises are Tongue Twisters.
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There are literally squillions of them, each focusing on either a single letter, or a letter combination. Often they're complete nonsense - phrases and word combinations chosen purely for the way they make you work to say them clearly. Tongue twisters have long been an integral part of a public speaker's tool kit. As well as being fun, they are extremely effective.
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improving your tongue's flexibility and agility add "Mrs Tongue Does Her Housework" to your practice session. These stretches will help enormously.
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