Practicing to build speed in both reading and free speaking, utilizing linking and phrasing, and using intonation to make the operative words stand out. Also using various tempo-rhythms for variety.
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Showing posts with label FREE_SPEAKING. Show all posts
Speed Building - Operative Words - Intonation - Tempo-Rhythms
Practicing to build speed in both reading and free speaking, utilizing linking and phrasing, and using intonation to make the operative words stand out. Also using various tempo-rhythms for variety.
Neutral Vowels & Parent Vowels
We keep the Neutral Vowels very short by playing consonant to consonant, and feeling the difference between these short grunt-like sounds and their larger Parent Vowels.
Consonant Energy - Structural Energy - Small Group
A small group warms up on Structural Energy (#3 AW), then works through several lessons in Consonant Energy (N, M, Z, D,T,TH).
Egypt on the Brink - Current Events - Speech Dynamics
Using current events (Egypt circa mid-August 2013) we practice Speech Dynamics reading from an analysis published in The Independent (UK), then lead into Free Speaking.
Free Speaking - Postcards with Clever Captions
Preparation for Speech Dynamics, and Free Speaking using the subject matter of postcards with clever captions.
Tempo Rhythms - Using Legato Consonants
Break habitual patterns of tempo-rhythms simply by sustaining longer the legato consonants like N and M.
Consonant Energy - medial / final R L M N
These consonants R and L are problematic for many people. The M and N also can be sustained longer than most people will. Everything just sounds better when you do.
Consonant Energy Leading
Practice using Consonant Energy as the leading speech dynamic, first in reading, then carrying over that dynamic into Free Speaking.
Consonant Energy - N - DG - Self-Training Methodology
The best methodology for self-training in speech using this systematic approach.
Private Coaching Session - Speech Training
Typical 75-minute private speech training session (abridged to 24-minutes), demonstrating the range of techniques from Breathing, Yawning, Stretching exercises, into drills for Structural Vowels, into reading text with Tonal and Structural Energies leading, into Consonant Energy leading, into focus on Linking and Phrasing, Tempo-Rhythms, and Intonation, first reading text, then finally the cumulative results--nearly flawless Free Speaking.
Shakespeare - Warming up on, Consonants & Linking, Small Talk
Warming up with speech dynamics on Shakespeare, then focusing on Consonant Energy and Linking practice. Then carrying that over into some small talk.
Consonant Energy - K_G linking cognates
The K and G are cognates, they have the exact same tongue position, but one is unvoiced, one is voiced, and spoken in proximity they need to be felt as two distinct drumbeats.
Free Speaking - Current Events as Subject
Free Speaking (not reading) on the subject of current events in the Gaza Strip.
Consonant Energy - Linking D_TH
In your day-to-day conversations Consonant Energy should be carrying most of your speech, but most people underplay their consonants.
Free Speaking - Using News Article
A news article about current events becomes the subject for a free speaking session, after warming up by reading the article with good speech dynamics.
Free Speaking Using Photos as Subjects (4)
The objective is to carry-over good speech dynamics into a normal conversation.
Free Speaking Using Photos as Subjects (3)
Speaking with good speech dynamics while making a presentation using photos.
TH - Linking T and D to TH
TH creates difficulty for many people, but anyone can master it, by feeling it properly, and doing a lot of practice. It also helps to learn how to link into the TH from preceding words that end in T and D.
Free Speaking Using Photos as Subjects (2)
Photos from a recent trip become the subject matter to create a dialogue using speech dynamics.
Free Speaking Using Photos as Subjects
Warming up on a movie scene, then Free Speaking using photos as subjects. The content of the conversation doesn't matter, just creating the spontaneous flow of a conversation while maintaining good speech dynamics.
