Speech Communication

In this speech training manual, we teach you how to produce all British English sounds. Each chapter in the book covers one sound. First, we explain how to place your tongue, lips, and jaw for the target sound. Then you repeat the sound in words, phrases, sentences, proverbs, famous quotations, verses, and tongue twisters. In addition, you drill contraction exercises, words with silent letters, and French expressions used in business in the English-speaking world. This is the most complete and comprehensive resource for business speech training.

Speaking well in public can open many doors for us. From a professional point of view, it can help to increase the possibilities in a job interview, get more credibility and attention in work meetings, obtain better results in an examination, attract clients for a company or project, gain the confidence of your team, and leadership. Learn the techniques of powerful people who can win people’s hearts and achieve their goal by speech. Learn why people listen to them. Learn why they matter and how you can make your speeches impactful using their secrets.

- Have you ever been put on the spot and kicked yourself later for not having a substantial, confident response? - Have you ever lost out on a promotion because you didn't get along with your colleagues or boss? - Have you ever blanked when delivering a speech or a presentation? Saying the right...

"The multiple performances in this audiobook are uniformly adept, providing listeners the disarming experience of adults unflinchingly looking back at childhood." -AudioFile on Learning to Talk Learning to Talk is a dazzling collection of short stories from the two-time winner of the Man Booker...

Your ability to speak confidently and persuasively is your most important asset. It helps you connect with people, share the ideas you're most passionate about, and realize your dreams. This updated guide provides easy-to-learn skills that will take your speeches and presentations to the next level, so you enjoy public speaking more and make everything you say more memorable.

Public speaking is a process of telling stories to get a message across - if we think of it this way, then we only need to work on getting better at telling stories. We tell stories every day. We tell them to our friends, to our families, to our colleagues. We even tell them to strangers on the plane. If we learn to share our stories well, then people will have a positive association. As salespeople, we can link stories to our key points.

Finally! A foolproof, step-by-step roadmap for making impressive speeches, even if you're scared stiff and have never spoken to an audience in your life! Does speaking before a group make you anxious? Now you can finally astound them with your speaking abilities. Speaking in front of people can be dreadful, indeed. You might not know what to say or how to say it. You might not have a clue on how the audience will respond (or react).

A "fascinating" narrative that takes readers on an epic journey spanning disciplines, continents, and centuries that spotlights sound's incredible impact on our bodies, feelings, thinking, and behavior (Susan Cain, bestselling author of Quiet). Hearing is the first sense we develop—a primary...

The Greek philosopher Heraclitus is the one who is credited with saying "The only thing that is constant is change." In the world of giving speeches this is especially true. One does not just suddenly become a great speaker. Rather, what happens is that we start to give speeches and gradually over time we get better at doing it. However, we'll never get any better at speaking in public if we don't know how to change.

Kazhdyj iz nas popadaet v takie situacii, kogda nuzhno proiznesti ubeditel'nuju i razvernutuju rech' - na jekzamene, na delovoj vstreche ili v druzheskoj kompanii. Jeta kniga pomozhet nauchit'sja dostojno vyhodit' iz polozhenija, ved' ona rasskazyvaet o tehnike rechi. Slushateli uznajut, kak postavit' dyhanie i golos, vyrabotat' horoshuju dikciju i pravil'noe proiznoshenie, a takzhe mnogoe drugoe. V zakljuchenii takzhe dajutsja uprazhne-nija, kotorye pomogut golos rech' bolee zvuchnym i krasivym.

In an increasingly competitive job market, it is essential that your voice doesn’t let you down. Voice for Women in Business gives you the strategies and vocal techniques to help to you speak with vocal elegance, to find your voice of authority, and to help you gain greater vocal confidence. First impressions matter! Voice for Women in Business will help you to make the right vocal impact in many professional scenarios.

The importance of stories hasn't gone down one bit as time has moved on. The way they are delivered has unimaginably diversified - the invention of writing definitely shook things up. Now two people didn't even have to be in the same room for a story to be passed between them. Today we have trillions of written words easily available to us just a click away.

Multiple award-winning speaker Ramakrishna Reddy presents the secrets, tools, and devices that helped him create 18 laughs and three applauses in a seven-minute persuasive speech in his fifth book Connect with Humor and Story. This is not theory. It's absolute content based on his research, his experience, and his testing.

Are you tired of seeing your little one struggle to make friends, exhibit challenging behaviors, or struggle with communication? Imagine if there was a proven toolkit designed by a speech therapist that could equip your toddler with the essential social skills they need to thrive in any situation, even if they have delayed skills.

Great speeches for making a proposal. Smart words to say at a wedding.

As a main type of freedom of speech, motivational speaking gives much to humanity, yet we ought not consume motivational speaking uncritically. Thus this work reflects upon the nature of motivational speaking so we may keep what rocks and leave behind what sucks. Hopefully, we shall achieve the best possible life in the process.

Don't take speech for granted. Kit Roberts Johnson knows what it is like to have a frozen voice. She knows what it is like for others to have their voices silenced, like children with Down Syndrome, or adults with stuttering. She became a speech therapist to help people with communication disorders and discovered over the span of her career that we have all been silenced in some way.

Speech therapy is a practice that assists people with speech and language disorders, or who have trouble swallowing. This audiobook takes you through the role of a speech therapist; the anatomical structures and physiological functions of speech and hearing; phonetics; language development and speech disorders; the structure of language; and career paths in this field.

Finally, a comprehensive resource to help you master speaking techniques and more. Learn from the world’s legendary professional speakers as they teach you how to tell your story, deliver a public speech, combat stage fright, control non-verbals, and persuade an audience. Even with the most difficult speaking subjects, learn how to use humor, quotes, and statistics to highlight a point.

In a business world where we are told that time is money, the real currency is communicating clearly at a poised and measured pace. Better Business Speech: Techniques, Tricks, and Shortcuts for Public Speaking at Work by Paul Geiger focuses on the challenges of being a strong communicator in a range of business settings. It begins with the basic premise that all speaking for business is public speaking. Therefore, these are the communication scenarios where any lack of confidence in speech ability will be magnified.