When you listen to another person, the first thing your brain perceives and analyzes is not words, not the meaning of what was said, but intonation, timbre and speed of speech. If the voice is unpleasant, no matter what the interlocutor says, you will fence yourself off from him, treat what he said with doubt and distrust, perceive what was said with hostility. If the intonations are uncertain, then the interlocutor will not convince you that he is right, even if he has a hundred brilliant arguments on his side. We are designed in such a way that we read non-verbal information much faster than verbal, and non-verbal perception affects us even more than we can imagine. After all, from an evolutionary point of view, the ability of humans to communicate with words is a novelty. But the perception of intonation, timbre, facial expressions and gestures is deeply rooted in our nature. A child needs to be taught to speak, but he does not need to be taught to understand that mom and dad are angry. Therefore, if you want to become a good speaker, work on the sound of your voice, intonation, timbre and tempo of speech.

Why listeners don't believe you

You made a presentation: you wrote a good text, picked up a bright visual component, put on the best suit, prepared for a long time. But the audience was not convinced because your voice sounded uncertain. Subconsciously, people perceive such non-verbal signals as uncertainty or insincerity:

Frequent coughing.
Spasms of the voice.
Nervous laughs.
Facial expression and intonation that do not match what was said.

You were coughing because you had a cold. Your voice cracked because you were tired. With jokes and chuckles, you wanted to defuse the situation. Explanations don't matter to listeners. They themselves did not understand why they did not believe you. Whatever the circumstances, avoid the four listed signals, and for this, work on your voice capabilities. The word is your instrument, and it should always be always in good condition.

What to do to be believed: voice exercises

1. Read the quatrains "wisely." Choose any quatrains you like and read them aloud. First, say each line on one exhalation, and between the lines get air. Then read two lines as you exhale. Finally, say the quatrain on one breath. Perform the exercise in strict sequence: one line, two lines, four lines on one exhale. Read without tension, let the words flow freely and naturally, at a pace that is comfortable for you.

Examples of quatrains for training:

I'm afraid to lose this bright miracle,that in your wet eyes froze in silence,I'm afraid of this night in which I won'ttouch your face to your rose of breath.(Federico Garcia Lorca)The moon does not know that she is the moon,And shines without knowing it.Sand is incomprehensible to sand. SubjectsNot to realize that the form is given to them.(Jorge Luis Borges)Forget old loveAnd not be sad about her?Forget old loveAnd the friendship of the old days?(Robert Burns) 2. Read the verses aloud, raising each line by one and a half tones. Volume and intonation should rise up the lines, like stairs. It is better if the poem ends with an exclamatory sentence, but this is not necessary. To begin with, select short verses, then you can read long ones in this way, but calculate the initial volume in advance so that the speech does not break on the last line. Example of a poem: Somewhere in a cave, in the coastal region,I hide my grief from people.There I will thinkmy evil fate,My evil, gloomy fate.Lying woman, your oathsThe time has come to fly away like smoke.Laugh with your loverYou are above the lostAbove my dishonored happiness!(Robert Burns) 3. Choose a text for training, the content of which will give you the opportunity to demonstrate different expressive means: strength, pitch, timbre, tempo changes. I will not quote the passage, because it should be quite large: no less than a page of verse and no less than half a page of prose. First, read the text to yourself, analyze it: what the text is about, with what intonation it should be read. It is desirable that there are dialogues in the passage: read the author's text calmly, but for each character who speaks, come up with your own timbre, register and intonation. Practice the passage so that it sounds both expressive and stress-free. 4. Use exercises based on interjections. Professional announcers use such concepts as “sound support”, “sonority”, “freedom of the muscles of the lower jaw”. These are all components of the euphonious sound of speech, and they are all trained with the help of interjections. The fact is that interjections are pronounced naturally and naturally, this helps to find the main tone of your voice. Therefore, read short verses with interjections: For example: Oh! I'm free!That's how my voice goes! 5. Practice correct sound direction and pronunciation clarity. To do this, use tongue twisters for each consonant sound. Do not forget that tongue twisters should be read slowly, with exaggeratedly clear, deliberate articulation. Even if you can pronounce the tongue twister quickly, first read it much more slowly than your natural pace. Select tongue twisters in groups to produce similar sounds: “b” and “p”, “z” and “s”, “d” and “t”. In fluent speech, these sounds sound similar, and if you have poor diction, listeners will confuse them.

To practice the sounds "b" and "p":

There would be a bull, but there would be meat. There is a priest on a shock, a cap on the priest, a shock under the priest, a priest under the cap.

For a clear pronunciation of "v" and "f":

She was at Frol's - she lied to Frol about Lavr, she will go to Lavr - she lies to Lavr about Frol.

For the correct pronunciation of "g", "k" and "x":

Hihonki yes khahonki - little dodish little ones.I'm not good for myself, I'm not good for people.

For the sounds "l" and "l":

A small deed is better than any idleness.Klava put the onions on the shelf and treated them to Nikolka.

For the sounds "h" and "u":

Scales at the pike, bristles at the pig.Not the one, comrades, a comrade who is a comrade with comrades, but the one, comrades, a comrade who is a comrade without comrades.

Why is it time to work on diction

Diction is the correct pronunciation of sounds and words. More recently, articulation was called "actor's courtesy." But now you can be considered a good speaker, even if you have diction defects: if popular actors and vocalists do not always correct their diction, then what can be expected from people whose work is not directly related to speech? But if you do not pronounce individual sounds, it is more difficult to understand you. This means that it will take more effort, imagination, experience to capture the attention of the audience and win them over. Therefore, I always recommend correcting pronunciation defects. Sometimes it is possible to correct diction only under the guidance of a speech therapist. Most defects have physiological or psychological causes. If you are physically unable to pronounce "l", "r" or another sound, only a speech therapist can help. But if in general you are able to produce a sound, only in a conversation you often swallow it or pronounce it incorrectly, special exercises for diction will help correct the situation:

Exercise for setting vowel sounds. Take a deep breath, hold your breath for a fraction of a second and as you exhale, pronounce consonant sounds, making a short pause after each: “a”, “and”, “o”, “y”, “s”, “e”. First articulate the sounds silently, then in a whisper, quietly, louder and louder. Also train with iotated sounds "e", "yo", "yu" and "ya".
Exercise for setting consonant sounds. Consonants are worked out in syllables with vowels: “ba”, “bi”, “bo”, “bu”. The principle is the same: take a deep breath, after a short breath hold on the exhale, pronounce syllables, making small pauses between them. Gradually add the second and third consonants to the syllables: bom, bam, boom, and so on. Finally, write down and pronounce words with complex combinations of sounds according to the same principle. Complex combinations are, for example, three consonants in a row: takeoff, hose.
An exercise to improve diction with complex combinations of consonants. There are several options for exercises with complex combinations of sounds. Besides the fact that they train diction, they develop a singing voice. You will object that you are not going to study vocals, but this is not about singing: the better your voice skills are, the better your performances sound. And the more interesting the audience to listen to you. Therefore, train, for example, with such combinations of sounds: long-aphid-A aphids-dli-A lill-A (Be careful, pull the second sound "l" in combination). li-lill-A gly-A length aphids zd (Pronounce it together, like a word, not a set of sounds). ZZDI-A zzhdr zhdrr zzhdrr zzhdri-A
Read tongue twisters. Unlike exercises for setting the correct direction of sound, in order to improve diction, you need to pronounce tongue twisters in the same way as individual sounds: first silently, then in a whisper, quietly, louder, louder. Increase the pace gradually: first read the tongue twister exaggeratedly slowly, then slowly, at a natural pace, faster and faster. Practice tongue twisters for all consonant sounds.

How to relieve tension from the respiratory and peri-laryngeal muscles?

Let's go back to the non-verbal cues that make it difficult for listeners to believe you: coughing, breaking, too quiet or high-pitched voice, uncertain tone - this is often the result of excessive muscle tension. To improve diction and develop your oratory skills, use not only exercises, but also special gymnastics.

Exercise "Pull the rope." Legs shoulder width apart. Imagine that a rope is hanging above you: raise your hands, stand on your tiptoes, inhale, and on a long exhale, pull the invisible rope down. Do this with effort, bending your arms and squatting. There should be tension in the muscles of the neck and chest. Repeat 3 times silently, and then say “Ba-ba-baba” while relaxing.
"The face is falling." Actors use this gymnastics. Imagine that your face is flowing: jaw, tongue, cheeks and lips flow down. The tongue rests on the lower lip. Run your hand over your face to feel how relaxed the lower jaw is. Then tilt your head and shake it so that your lips and cheeks vibrate. Do it silently at first, and when it gets good, say "Amba-ba-ba-ba" to check how fluent you sound.

The development of oratory and pronunciation depends on your physical condition, so do not neglect the hygienic facial massage, pay attention to body position, posture. When you speak, your shoulders should be turned, but without tension, your head up. Wrong posture can also create "clamps" of muscles that interfere with free sound. Work on the development of pronunciation should be systematic. It is better to exercise 15-30 minutes every 6 days a week than 2 hours once a week. It is difficult to train on your own: each person needs an individual set of classes. So come to my School of Public Speaking "Oratoris" and I will draw up a suitable lesson plan for you. I conduct individual and group lessons: during them you will learn not only how to improve your pronunciation, but also how to write a successful speech, how to overcome stage fright and learn how to convince listeners.

Delivered literate speech is considered by many to be a talent that is given to the elect and is needed 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 speaker and trust his opinion more. In addition, such a skill often contributes to career growth, especially if it is necessary to communicate with people often to perform job duties.

Basic techniques and exercises for the development of speech

Next, we will give the most effective exercises to improve diction. A 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 only in this way will you make progress in the development of your speech.

Warm-up for the articulatory apparatus

Short warm-ups will help you set yourself up for clarity of pronunciation before doing any exercises aimed at developing diction. One of her options is to firmly 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 the choice of text every time, you can use any poem when doing this exercise.

To help you start speaking better and strengthen the muscles of the organs involved in the speech process, exercises aimed at improving their mobility and accuracy will also help. After all, these characteristics are essential 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 the gymnastics is connected with him. 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 with a brush, draw lines from the teeth to the larynx with smooth movements.

Pronunciation of phrases with artificially complicated articulation

Tongue twisters for the development of diction are considered a classic training option. With their help, you can practice in a relaxed atmosphere in the clarity of pronouncing different consonants. To achieve excellent results, it is enough to devote at least 5-10 minutes to classes every day. However, for the development of 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 that teach you to clearly pronounce one or two sounds. For example, these could be:

All beavers are kind to their cubs.

Skinny, weak Koschey, dragging a box of vegetables.

Klim pounded in one damn wedge.

Thunderstorm is terrible, terrible thunderstorm.

A harrow harrowed an unharrowed field.

Mow, spit, until the dew, down with the dew - and we are home.

Grass in the yard, firewood on the grass; do not cut wood on the grass of the yard.

Whether the fox sat down near the village, or at the edge of the forest.

The census rewrote the rewritten census results three times.

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

The talker said to the talkers: "he said, do not tell the talker that the talker has spoken," the talker had a talker. The talker spoke, and the throat of the talker began to talk a little, and then the talker said in the end: "Stop talking, the talker spokekin."
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 lieutenant, about the ensign and about the ensign, about the lieutenant, but he was silent about the lieutenant.
Firewood in the yard, firewood behind the yard, firewood under the yard, firewood above the yard, firewood along the yard, firewood across the yard, the firewood yard does not fit! We'll probably move the wood from your yard back to the wood yard.
The cap is not sewn in the style of a cap, the bell is poured not in the style of a bell, the cap must be recapped, recapped, recapped, recapped.
The snake has already stung. I can't get along with the snake. Already from horror it became already - the snake will eat for dinner and say: "Start over."

Pronunciation of 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. After the problems are identified, you can start working on the development of diction.

First you need to learn how to pronounce an isolated sound correctly. Then it is necessary to distinguish between similar sounds in speech, for example, “s” and “w” or “r” and “l”. A significant help in correcting your speech can be the pronunciation of special phrases, for example:

Lara played the lyre.
Forty mice walked, found forty pennies, and two worse mice found two pennies each.
The Ligurian traffic controller regulated in Liguria.
A Cossack with a saber rode to Sashka to play checkers.
Sasha walked along the highway and sucked dry. Beavers wander into the cheeses of the forests. Beavers are brave, but kind to beavers.
The bull is stupid, stupid bull, the bull has a white lip stupid.
There was a white-winged ram, He turned white-winged all the rams.
I was at Frol's, I lied to Frol about Lavr, I'll go to Lavr, Lavr on Frol Navra.

It is worth moving on to work 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 for the development of diction. Recording your voice on a voice recorder can be a good incentive. Few people, having heard their speech, do not want to improve it. By reading passages from books and making an audio recording, you can practice 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, do not allow monotony, and change intonations. In addition, it is worth changing the volume and speed of reading, learning to highlight the most important moments 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 others are best perceived by a calm and confident voice. Whether it will be so depends largely on the mood and internal state of a person, his ability to control emotions. However, engaging in the development of diction, you can learn to speak calmly and convincingly. For example, why not pretend to be a politician and talk about the state of the economy in the country, sitting in front of a mirror?

Vocabulary replenishment

Another important aspect to consider is the need for constant intellectual development and vocabulary replenishment. A well-developed person in any situation can keep up the conversation and find the right words. To become just that, you should read more, solve crossword puzzles more often and attend various trainings on.

If you devote even a few minutes every day to work on improving your diction, in a few months you will begin to speak well, and your voice will change beyond recognition. At the same time, 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 those places where it violates its meaning or worsens emotionality. As a result, speech will become abrupt, and the meaning of what has been said is perceived worse.

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

Spread your legs shoulder-width apart, straighten your spine, put one hand on your chest, and the other on your stomach. Inhaling through your nose, push your belly forward. Then calmly exhale air through a small hole in the lips, returning the chest and stomach to their original position.
In order to start speaking better over time, you can complicate the exercise. To do this, try to maintain proper breathing while walking, jogging in place, imitating chopping wood or sweeping the floor.
You can improve the development of diction with the help of the following exercise. To begin, inhale calmly, and as you exhale, pull 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.

The 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 occasionally they are associated with health problems and develop, for example, due to an abnormal structure of the jaw or a short frenulum of the tongue.

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

Even if a person can speak well, pronouncing all the sounds correctly, in especially significant situations, his speech can become blurry and fuzzy. After all, when pronouncing words, the articulatory apparatus needs to switch very quickly from one movement to another. This is achieved only with 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 the 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 against complexes.

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Comprehension of oratory is a difficult and painstaking process. Since ancient times, people have sought to learn the art of speaking in front of a crowd. Centuries later, we still want to capture the attention of the audience, however, now we use modern methods.

website carefully selected several effective practices from the book by Elvira Sarabyan "Learn to speak so that you are heard."

1. Articulation of the sounds "W - F"

The ball is hot, yours is important, the joke is creepy, the breadth is fat, to live is to sew.
The ground beetle buzzes, buzzes, spins. The reins made of leather fit into the collar.

2. Articulation of sounds "K - G, X"

Swing - gazelles, stake - goal, bone - guest, code - year, whip - bend, club - stupid, Kesha - Gesha.
Goes with a goat oblique goat. The crab made a rake to the crab, gave the rake to the crab: rob the gravel with the rake, crab!

3. Practicing the sound "C"

Heron - saber, tsok - juice, target - mudflow, color - light, circus - cheese, street - fox.
Well done against the sheep, and against the well done the sheep himself. The heron withered, the heron withered.

4. Speak slowly at first, then faster:

Tlz, jr, vrzh, mkrtch, kpt, kft, ksht, kst, kshch, kzhda, kzhde, kzhdo, kzhdu, kshta, kshte, kshtu, kshto.

5. Say first slowly, then faster:

Stay awake, philosophize, postscript, invigorate, transplantation, supersonic, tousled, counter-break, explosion point, protestantism, stir up, over-alarmed, hit the barrel, department, hose, ornate, philosophize, monster, snort a lot.

6. Training the pronunciation of consonants:

To Clara, to whom, to the throat, to tour, to Galya, to Katya, to Kiev, to the end, to the city, distant, get involved, give, kindle, vent, get rid of, without a fur coat, ruthless, immortality, restore, confirm, push away.
Top - up, leading - introduction, push - push, hold - support, drag - pull, water - introductory, litter - quarrel.

7. Working out combinations of sounds in the form of a game:

Hammer nails: Gbdu! Gbdo! Gbde! Gbdy! Gbda! Gbdi! Gbde!
Imitate horse stomp: Ptku! Ptko! bird! Birds! Ptke! Birds!
Throw imaginary plates to your partner: Kchku! Wow! Kchke! Kchka! Kchky! Kchki!

8. Say the phrases first slowly, then quickly:

At that hour, a thrush sang here. That year there was a hail. The oak was old. Everyone loved Peter. Instantly the club is full. The moss hid the mushroom. Grandpa got old. Your guest took the cane. Waves Splash - splash sparkle! Jump a hundred miles.

9. Working out sounds:

Buy a pile of peaks, buy a pile of peaks. Buy a pile of fluff, buy a pile of fluff.
The sorcerer worked in a barn with the Magi.
Rhododendrons from the arboretum were given by parents.
Brit Klim brother, Brit Gleb brother, brother Ignat bearded.
Karl put the bow on the chest, Clara stole the bow from the chest.
A cap is sewn, but not in a cap style; a bell is poured, but not in a bell-like way. It is necessary to re-cap the cap, re-cap, it is necessary to re-bell the bell, re-bell.
The interviewer interviewed the interviewer.
The nervous constitutionalist was found assimilated in Constantinople.
A quarter of a quarter of a pea without a wormhole.
Jasper in suede is mossy.

10. Repeat slowly and then quickly complex words:

(B, w) - to the user
(K) - small-caliber
(P, c) - publish
(P, r) - indirect subsidies
(P, t, s) - territorial integrity
(P, t) - illustrated
(P, c) - reverb
(S, f) - means
(H, in) - four hundred dollar
(H, f, r) - phantasmagoric

Competent speech is the key to success in life. After all, they are judged not only by clothes, but also by the ability to correctly convey thoughts and write correctly. A person who knows how to express his thoughts simply, concisely and clearly, correctly build sentences, is always perceived more positively. Interlocutors, listening to competent speech, automatically assign a completely different, higher level of life competence to a person.

Have you ever lost or didn't get a job because of too many mistakes in a letter or the need to clearly explain why you are the right person for the job? The development of competent speech is one of the basic tasks of every self-respecting person. Even if you are not performing in front of an audience, the ability to speak beautifully and clearly is appreciated by everyone. So, how to develop literate speech?

Read fiction

Reading quality fiction can hardly be called a waste of time. In the modern world, we are exposed to a very large flow of information, mostly listening to the news or reading it on the Internet. But the web, entertaining reading and business literature cannot replace good books by recognized domestic and foreign authors.

Reading novels helps to intuitively make correct, beautiful sentences, develops a sense of language. Reading fiction, scientific articles in special editions, a person expands his horizons and vocabulary. If you want to make speech more lively, figurative - read poetry. Select for yourself the rhythm, metaphors and turns of speech that you would like to use.

Use Dictionaries

Look for new words. If you have heard or read a word whose meaning is unfamiliar to you, feel free to take a dictionary and find out what it means. The origin of words is a very interesting science. What if it becomes one of your hobbies?

In addition to the usual dictionary, there are dictionaries of metaphors, foreign words, special terms, even dictionaries dedicated to a particular science. Use everyone - and your vocabulary will grow rapidly. You can always find the most accurate word and apply it in a conversation.

Play educational games

As you know, children receive almost all the knowledge about the language until the age of seven. Literate speech in a child develops with the help of the people around him. There are also many games and techniques that allow you to develop your imagination, expand your vocabulary and learn how to speak beautifully.

If possible, listen to yourself from the outside. Make an audio or video recording of your voice. If you are afraid to speak into the recorder or get an inaccurate result, ask someone close to record you during a normal conversation.

Assess your speech. Competent speech is always clean from everything superfluous. How accurately did you communicate your message to others? Was she understandable? Could it have been shorter, clearer, clearer? Are you pausing where you shouldn't? Are you building sentences correctly? Do your thoughts get confused, do you jump from thought to thought, confusing your listeners?

Watch for accents. Incorrect stresses (ringing, blinds and other tricky words, of which there are many in the Russian language) betray an illiterate and ill-mannered person. There are two ways out: do not use these words or open a dictionary, textbooks and memorize them firmly.

Edit what you've written

Wrote a letter, a message to a friend, a report to the management or an artistic essay? Whatever it is, review the text as carefully as possible and try to give it a critical assessment. This is a great speech exercise. If you practice "cleaning" the letter, very soon you will see the result. In addition, colloquial speech will also change significantly!

When you've written something, try to "switch" to something else (at least go and make yourself a cup of tea), then return to the text with a "fresh" eye. Imagine that this is someone else's text. Does it have any errors? How accurate is the thought? Is everything clear to you as an outside reader? Is it possible to formulate this idea more clearly and concisely?

Correct speech and competent speech is always bright, expressive and understandable. Get rid of words that do not carry any semantic load. Often they take up a third of the text, from which your thought definitely loses. If you can use a simpler and shorter word - use it. You can also try reading aloud (be sure to do this if you are preparing a speech that you will give).

Develop your voice

For communication, not only grammatically and lexically literate speech is important. Good manners of communication also include command of the voice. If you have applied all the techniques outlined above, but at the same time express your thoughts in a monotonous voice, devoid of any intonation, listening to you will be unpleasant and not very interesting.

It is worth developing your voice. Do the exercises, listen to the speakers and try to repeat after them. Sign up for a speaking class. Even with little effort, the results will please you, and your interlocutors will stop yawning.

Results

Literate speech is not given from birth. You need to work on this constantly, throughout your life. But even if you devote quite a bit of effort and time to the development of your speech, but reading will become your good habit, a more interesting and successful life is guaranteed to you.

Perhaps everyone knows the story of the ancient Greek philosopher Demosthenes, who, while still a child, was delighted by chance with the speech of a certain speaker he heard, and after a while he himself decided to use the word as his main tool.

Stuffing his mouth with pebbles, Demosthenes in motion tried to achieve intelligible articulation of passages from poems he read from memory, thereby getting rid of the flaws in his speech. Daily training benefited him, giving him the opportunity to become famous as the best speaker of his era.

Good diction- this is an indicator of an enlightened person, his weighty dignity, which can be applied in many life cases. It may be easy to write a competent and visual text, but it will not be so easy to pronounce it. Fuzzy diction of speech can get in the way, interfere with well-learned performance.

In fact, all diction defects can be corrected if desired. How to improve speech diction quickly? This requires regular training.

Breathing training

Shortness of breath is without any doubt a problem that we encounter even in everyday life. Diaphragm training can fix this. Excellent work to improve diction is the singing of vowels on the exhale. At first, breathing will be enough for a short time, but with constant exercises, 20 seconds can be reached.

The next stage of training is voice pitch correction. You can train, practice breathing, as if blowing out the flame of a candle.

Exercises to improve diction

There are many useful exercises that can improve diction and speech clarity in a short time. Here are some of them:

Exercise number 1. Articulation charge.

open your mouth wide and slowly move your jaw forward and then back;
stand straight and, holding your hands on your chest, lean forward, as you exhale, speak in a low voice drawling vowels "o", "u", "s";
with your mouth closed and open, straining the tip of your tongue, alternately rest it on your right and left cheeks;
in an open-mouthed smile, run your tongue over your lower and upper teeth, and without moving your jaw, count each one.

Exercise number 2. Tongue twisters for the development of diction.

How to improve diction quickly? For this, tongue twisters are perfect. They combine different sounds. Think of the lumberjacks who chopped down the oaks, or the four turtles with four turtles. To improve diction, you can pronounce tongue twisters by putting nuts in your mouth (from the movie "Carnival"). 5 tongue twisters with various consonances are enough to get rid of speech defects.

Exercise number 3. Listening to your own voice from dictaphone recordings.

The sound of our voice is not at all what we think. You need to read any poem, recording it on a voice recorder. The resulting recording must be listened to. Try to correct the flaws heard next time. You need to record until you get the perfect effect.

Video - How to improve speech and diction

Regularity of repetition

For exercises to work out good diction, spend 10-15 minutes a day.

It is necessary to transgress to the next task only after the previous one has been sufficiently clearly worked out. Regular exercises will save you from the question of how to improve diction and make speech clear and intelligible.