CLEAR SPEECH: SPEAKING CLEARLY MATTERS.

Speaking clearly is important. Clear speech defects are correctable. Learn how to speak clearly.

Speaking clearly is difficult for some, but clear speech matters. Many speech disorders are correctable by speech therapy. Not speaking clearly may have to do with articulation, vocal tone control, nervousness... Voice training helps. Speech practise below can help enable clear speech.

Speaking clearly avoids misunderstandings in deals. Clear speech is essential in business. Speak clearly must actors, actresses. Teachers must speak clearly. Not speaking clearly, miss-pronunciation, looses marks in English language examinations. Clear speech is important. Speaking clearly, correct pronunciation and voice tone, is effective speech. Inability to speak clearly limits opportunities. It benefits one to speak clearly.

Clear speech is essential in public speaking. Speaking clearly isn't "a'wight", 'all right' is. To speak 'thin' as "t'in" is bad pronunciation, unclear speech. In public speaking "cadalog" or "lore" isn't clear speaking. Clear speech inability distracts in public speaking, to speak clearly enhances it... Clear pronunciation pays. Profits speaking clearly.

Clear speech involves confidence, tone, articulation. Clear speech defects are not all physical. If that does not prevent speaking clearly, one can learn clear speech... Exercises below help speak clearly.

Clear speech inability caused by lack of confidence is remediable. Stage-fright like nervousness makes it difficult to speak clearly. An anecdote of the teacher Orhan Seyfi Ari illustrates this piont: In a radio broadcast of a boxing match between Abdi and Bandinelly, "the winner is.. Adbinelli!" Speaking clearly becomes possible by bearing in mind these: The listener/s, without a guarantee that you will speak clearly, decided to listen to you. This decision involves tolerance for difficulty in speaking clearly. This tolerance on speaking clearly is enhanced by curiosity. Your nervousness to speak clearly does not do away with the interest of the listener/s. Your not speaking clearly is to be met with patient effort to understand you. Instead of worrying about having difficulty to speak clearly, concentrate on speaking rationally, relevantly. Aim at sense, not articulation. It makes fears unnoticeable about speaking clearly. Soon follows clear speaking.

Clear speaking is affected by tone. When you are speaking loudly, it distracts. If you are speaking too quietly, you can't be heard. Speaking fast, or speaking too slowly, is failing to speak clearly. Monotonous speech is not clear speech: 'In the box' is different than 'In the box' -tone of voice makes it clear or not clear speech. Tone can spoil articulation. Tone of voice is habit; change it by tone of voice training: Practise clear speech by saying '1-2-3-4-5' in low voice, loud voice, then low voice again. Repeat the word 'I', then 'You', speaking slowly, then speaking fast. Speak them with emotion: in joy, sorrow, sympathy, anger -try to speak clearly. This enables clear speaking. It's voice training in speaking clearly.

To speak clearly necessitates articulation, correct pronunciation. Glottal-stop makes 'never' "ne'er". Clear/dark L pronunciation, as in the pronunciation of 'willy-nilly' or "il'egal", affects speaking clearly. The pronunciation of the English R before the vowel as in 'irregular' may be the clear speaking problem; or its substitution as in "lore" instead of 'law'. It can be a combination, as in "a'wight" instead of 'all right'. What prevents clear speech is sometimes substitution for or the addition to the letter S, as in "kithing" instead of 'kissing', or "shtrait" instead of 'straight'. The letter T is sometimes is dropped, as in "bo'le" instead of 'bottle', or is substituted to, as in "cadalog" instead of 'catalog'; or the TH is dropped, as in "t'in" instead of 'thin'. These pronunciation difficulties in clear speaking can be overcome by articulate speech. Clear speech training enables articulation. Articulate speech, in the right tone of voice, is clear speech. Practise pronunciation by speaking each letter or syllable slowly. It helps articulation, clear speaking. It enables to speak clearly.

The audibility of the letters F, K, P, T, affects clear speech, articulation. If the speech problem is speaking these too softly, hardly audibly, its correctable: Place tiny pieces of paper in your hand. Hold your hand 1 or 2 inches (3 to 5 centimetres) away from your mouth. Blow away the pieces of paper saying 'far-for-fur', 'King-Kong', 'paper-punch', 'trend-setter'. These help clear speaking. Such practise will enable clear speech.

(Inability to sound the letter S ruins articulation, spoils clear speech. It's caused physiologically. Practising 'sang some silly song' helps sound it.)

Such clear speech inability are correctable. There are many kinds of impaired speech, speech impediments, speech therapy. Difficulty as above in speaking clearly is not due to physical defect. It is, as in the musical My Fair Lady, how speak 'common flower-girls' and how 'ladies' speak. Learn articulation. Speech habits can be changed by practising speaking.

Speaking clearly is important. Clear speech affects relationships. Not speaking clearly affects the tone of voice in talks, in public speaking. Not speaking clearly can cause innocent oral remarks in teaching, debating to insult. Businesses suffer whose staff do not attach importance to speaking clearly. Deals fail if one can't, with verbal emphasis, speak clearly. Vocal auditions fail of actresses, actors, who cannot very speak clearly. Clear speech is so important, scriptwriters separate similar sounding words. Socially, you are 'common' if you cannot speak clearly, but not if have clear speech. Defective speech, speech impediment is correctable... Practise clear speaking. One can learn to speak clearly.

Clear speech inability can be rid of by practising clear speaking.