Can The Media Learn How To Pronounce...
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Firstly, start now practising deep breathing, holding your breath and breathing out slowly. If you do if often enough it WILL help to control your nerves.
Also start practising now reading your talk out loud. Find the biggest room you can and project your voice to the far side. Try to imagine that some of the people are slightly deaf. And two more important things to remember which will help you get through it:
1. Smile at your audience before you begin. This will help relax your facial muscles.
2. Speak slowly. SPEAK SLOWLY. SPEAK SLOWLY. Everybody gabbles when they are nervous and people will not fully grasp what you are saying or reading. Concentrate on pronouncing every word clearly. Enjoy hearing the sound of your own voice and you will do much better than you could have imagined. Good luck.
kipchik, have you ever sat there and listened or watched someone else giving a presentation or speech? Think of how you felt towards them, people WANT you to do well, they're on your side, their not judging you or hoping that you fall flat on your face, they're willing you to do well, will laugh at the lamest joke and clap anywhere they're told to.
Unfortunately it's a catch 22, because the only thing that makes bad speakers is nerves! Just think, to hell with it, so what if you're not perfect, it doesn't matter, people aren't judging you, they're listening to what you're saying. Try and abandon all self conciousness before you start ... what's the worst that can happen ;o)
Good Luck!!
Good luck for tomorrow, good advice from curiosity also, I used to do public speaking and I always wrote out what I was going to say word for word, you're not supposed to, but knowing it was all there meant I didn't have to use it, because it gave me confidence. Rather than write a bullet point and look at it and go 'what the hell does that mean'.
If you do write it verbatem, don't let them see it tho as it goes against you. And if you write the whole thing out don't do the whole presentation staring at the cards!