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Beautiful speech - important factor for success in your career and personal life. Tongue twisters for speech development and diction training. Tips on how to work on tongue twisters.
“It’s even rarer to hear a good tongue twister on stage, consistent in tempo, clear in rhythm, clear in diction, in pronunciation and in conveying thoughts. Our tongue twister comes out not clear, but blurred, heavy, confused. This is not a tongue twister, but babbling, spitting out or spilling out words. A tongue twister must be developed through very slow, exaggeratedly clear speech. From long and repeated repetition of the same words in a tongue twister, the speech apparatus is so adjusted that it learns to do the same work at the fastest pace. This requires constant exercise, and you need to do them, because stage speech cannot do without tongue twisters." K.S. Stanislavsky.
Russian folk tongue twisters help develop the speaker's speech technique, clear pronunciation of words and phrases, and the speaker's diction. It is important for the speaker to learn how to pronounce the tongue twister clearly, quickly, with different intonations (intonation of surprise, reflection, admiration, etc.), pronounce the tongue twister in a whisper, but with clear articulation of consonants with a strong exhalation on vowels and with open ligaments. That is, vowels need to be pronounced as if through a megaphone, and all sounds in a patter should be articulated, and not pronounced with a hysterical sound, which only injures the throat. In a tongue twister, the speaker needs to overcome all difficult sound combinations. It is important to pronounce a complex word syllable by syllable, albeit at a slow pace, but to pronounce it without any difficulties, misfires, or reservations. Pronounce each tongue twister first silently, but articulately, then switch to a whisper and only then out loud, first at a slow pace, and then at a fast pace, but remember the clarity of pronunciation.
There is a law of “stage” tongue twister (i.e., a fast pace of speech when a speaker speaks): the faster the speech, the clearer the diction, the brighter the intonation pattern should sound. Because the listener must have time to understand everything, hear everything the speaker is telling him, and see the pictures that the speaker conveys through speech. Those. the faster, the more accurate! Be especially specific about the accents in difficult words. Try to feel the perspective in everything: in a phrase, in a word, in a thought, understanding and remembering that there is a tempo for pronouncing a syllable in a word, a word in a phrase, a phrase in a period of thought.
How to learn to speak beautifully? - Work on tongue twisters to develop your speech!
1. (B,r) - Beavers wander into the forests. Beavers are brave, but they are kind to beavers.
2. (B,r) - All beavers are kind to their beavers.
3. (B,e) - Good beavers go into the forests, and woodcutters cut down oak trees.
4. (B) - White snow, white chalk, a white hare is also white. But the squirrel is not white - it wasn’t even white.
5. (B,c) - White oak tables, smooth planed.
6. (B, p) - The bull is blunt-lipped, the bull is blunt-lipped, the bull’s white lip was dull.
7. (B) - Okul baba shod, and baba also shod Okul.
8. (V, l) - Vavila’s sail was getting wet.
9. (V, p) - The water carrier was carrying water from under the water supply.
10. (V, l, d) - It is not visible whether the shares are liquid or not liquid.
11. (V, sh, w) - The emotional Varvara felt the emotion of the insensitive Vavila.
Tongue twisters for the development of diction
12. (B,c) - The waxwing whistles with a pipe.
13. (V, t, r) - Thirty-three ships tacked, tacked, but did not tack.
14. (V, r, h) - The nervous Babylonian Barbara, became nervous in Babylon, the nervous Babylonian Babylon of Babylonia.
15. (V, p) - The otter tried to snatch the fish from the otter.
16. (G,v,l) - Our head overtook your head with his head, overheaded.
17. (D, b, l) - The woodpecker hollowed out the oak, hollowed, hollowed out, but did not hollow out and did not hollow out.
18. (D, l, g, h) - De-ideologized, de-ideologized, and further de-ideologized.
19. (D, r) - Two woodcutters, two woodcutters, two wood splitters were talking about Larka, about Varka, about Larina’s wife.
20. (F, c) - Leather reins fit into the collar.
21. (F) - The hedgehog has a hedgehog, the snake has a squeeze.
22. (F) - The ground beetle is buzzing and buzzing, buzzing and spinning. I tell her, don’t buzz, don’t spin, and you better go to bed. You'll wake up all your neighbors if you're buzzing in your ear.
23. (Y, r, v) - Yaroslav and Yaroslavna
We settled in Yaroslavl.
They live nicely in Yaroslavl
Yaroslav and Yaroslavna.
24. (K,b) - In Kabardino-Balkaria, valocordin from Bulgaria.
25. (K, v) - You can’t say all the tongue twisters too quickly.
26. (K, p) - They drove a stake into the palisade and beat him up.
27. (K, t, r) - Kondrat’s jacket is a little short.
28. (K, n, l) - Is this colonialism? - No, this is not colonialism, but neocolonialism!
29. (K, p, r) - From near Kostroma, from near Kostromishchi, four peasants walked. They talked about trading, and about purchases, about cereals, and about reinforcements.
30. (K, h, s) - A goat is walking with a goat.
31. (K, l) - Klim pounded a wedge into one pancake.
32. (K, r, g) - The crab made a rake for the crab, gave the rake to the crab - rake the gravel with the rake, crab.
33. (K, sh, p, n) - The little cuckoo bought a hood, put the cuckoo’s hood on, the little cuckoo looked funny in the hood.
34. (K, r, l) - Karl stole corals from Clara, and Clara stole Karl’s clarinet.
35. (K, r, v, l) - The Queen gave the gentleman a caravel.
36. (K, r, m, n) - The Elector compromised the Landsknecht.
37. (K, r) - The courier overtakes the courier into the quarry.
38. (K, s, v) - Coconut makers boil coconut juice in coconut cookers.
39. (K, p) - Buy a pile of spades. Buy a pile of spades. Buy a peak.
40. (K, s) - Mow, scythe, while there is dew, away with the dew - and we are home.
41. (K, l, b) - Our Polkan from Baikal lapped. Polkan lapped and lapped, but Baikal did not become shallow.
42. (K, l, c) - There is no ring near the well.
43. (K, t, n) - The nervous constitutionalist Constantine was found acclimatized in the constitutional city of Constantinople and with calm dignity inventing improved pneumatic bag-punchers.
Tongue twisters for diction
44. (K, l, p, v) - The cap is sewn, not in the Kolpakov style, the bell is poured, not in the Kolokolov style. It is necessary to re-cap, re-cap. The bell needs to be re-belled, re-belled.
45. (K, r, l) - The crystal crystallized, crystallized, but did not crystallize.
46. (L, h) - The fox runs along the pole: lick the sand, the fox!
47. (L,k) - Klavka was looking for a pin, and the pin fell under the bench.
48. (L) - We ate, ate ruffs at the spruce tree. They were barely finished at the spruce.
Russian folk tongue twisters
49. (L,n) - On the river shallows we came across a burbot.
50. (L, m, n) - In the shallows we lazily caught burbot, You exchanged the burbot for tench. Was it not you who sweetly begged me for love, and beckoned me into the mists of the estuary?
51. (L) - Have you watered the lily? Have you seen Lydia? They watered Lily and saw Lydia.
52. (L,b) - Malanya the chatterbox chatted and blurted out the milk, but didn’t blurt it out.
53. (L,k) - Klim threw a bow at Luka.
54. (M, l) - Mom washed Mila with soap, Mila didn’t like soap.
55. (P, r, m) - Your sexton will not out-sex our sexton: our sexton will over-sex your sexton, over-sex.
56. (P, x) - Get up, Arkhip, the rooster is hoarse.
57. (P, k, r) - In the pond near Polycarp there are three crucian carp, three carp.
58. (P, t, r) - Shot for quails and black grouse.
59. (P,k) - Our Polkan fell into a trap.
60. (P,t) - From the clatter of hooves, dust flies across the field.
61. (P, x) - Osip is hoarse, Arkhip is hoarse.
62. (P, r) - The quail hid the quails from the guys.
63. (P, g) - The parrot said to the parrot, I will parrot you, the parrot answers him - Parrot, parrot, parrot!
64. (P, k, sch) - 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 second lieutenant, about the ensign and about the ensign, about the ensign, but was silent about the ensign.
65. (P) - Pyotr Petrovich, nicknamed Perov, caught a pigtail bird; he carried it around the market, asked for fifty dollars, they gave him a nickel, and he sold it like that.
66. (P) - Once upon a time, a jackdaw pop was scaring, he noticed a parrot in the bushes, and then the parrot said: “You scare the jackdaw, pop, scare. But just jackdaw, pop, scare, don’t you dare scare the parrot!”
67. (P) - I went to weed the fields.
68. (P, r, k) - Prokop came - dill is boiling, Prokop left - dill is boiling. Just as dill boils with Prokop, so without Prokop dill boils.
69. (P, r, h, k) - We talked about Prokopovich. What about Prokopovich? About Prokopovich, about Prokopovich, about Prokopovich, about yours.
70. (P,k,r,t) - The protocol about the protocol was recorded as a protocol.
71. (P, r) - A quail and a quail have five quails.
72. (P, r, v) - The workers privatized the enterprise, privatized it, but did not privatize it.
73. (P, k) - Tell me about the shopping! - What kind of purchases? - About shopping, about shopping, about my shopping.
Folk tongue twisters
74. (P) - There is a haystack with a little quail under it, and under the hay there is a quail with a little quail.
75. (P, k) - There is a priest on a shock, a cap on the priest, a shock under the priest, a priest under the cap.
76. (P, r, t) - Turner Rappoport cut through the pass, rasp and support.
77. (P) - In our courtyard, the weather has become wet.
78. (P, r, l) - Parallelogram parallelogrammil parallelogrammil but not parallelogrammed.
79. (P,t) - Ipat went to buy shovels.
Ipat bought five shovels.
I was walking across the pond and grabbed onto a rod.
Ipat fell - five shovels were missing.
80. (P, p) - Perpendiculars are drawn without protractors.
81. (P, r, t) - Praskovya traded crucian carp
For three pairs of striped piglets.
The piglets ran through the dew,
The piglets caught a cold, but not all of them.
82. (R, p, t, k) - Pankrat forgot the jack. Now Pankrat cannot lift the tractor on the road without a jack.
83. (R,g) - The guru’s inauguration went off with a bang.
84. (R, t, v) - The interviewer interviewed the interviewer, interviewed, but did not interview.
85. (R,l) - Eagle on the mountain, feather on the eagle. A mountain under an eagle, an eagle under a feather.
86. (R, m, n) - Roman Carmen put Romain Rolland’s novel in his pocket and went to “Romain” to see “Carmen”.
Tongue twisters for speech development
87. (R, c) - There is grass in the yard, there is firewood on the grass. Don't cut wood on the yard grass!
88. (R,k) - A Greek was driving across the river, he sees a Greek - there is a cancer in the river. He stuck the Greek's hand into the river, and the crayfish grabbed the Greek's hand - clap!
89. (R, p) - Reported, but didn’t complete the report, completed the report, but didn’t complete the report.
90. (R, l) - The pig snouted, white-nosed, blunt-nosed, dug up half the yard with its snout, dug, dug. That’s why Khavronya was given a snout, so that she could dig.
91. (R) - On Mount Ararat, a cow was collecting peas with its horns.
92. (R, l, g) - The Ligurian traffic controller regulated in Liguria.
93. (R, m, t) - Margarita was collecting daisies on the mountain, Margarita lost daisies in the yard.
94. (S, n) - Senya carries hay in the canopy, Senya will sleep on the hay.
95. (S, m, n) - In seven sleighs, seven Semenov with mustaches sat down in the sleigh themselves.
96. (S, k, v, r) - The fast talker quickly spoke quickly, said that you can’t quickly talk all the tongue twisters, you can’t talk quickly, but having quickly spoken, he quickly said - that you can’t talk all the tongue twisters, you can talk quickly. And the tongue twisters jump like crucian carp in a frying pan.
97. (S, k, p, r) - Just as all tongue twisters cannot be quickly spoken, not spoken quickly, so all tongue twisters cannot be spoken quickly, not spoken quickly, and only all tongue twisters can be spoken quickly, spoken quickly!
98. (S,k) - Senka is carrying Sanka and Sonya on a sled. Sledge jump, Senka off his feet, Sonya in the forehead, all in a snowdrift.
99. (C) - The wasp does not have a mustache, not a whisker, but antennae.
100. (S, m, n) - Senya and Sanya have a catfish with a mustache in their nets.
101. (S, k, r) - It’s a hassle to catch a cunning magpie, and forty forty is a forty hassle.
102. (S, ny, k) - Senka is carrying Sanka and Sonya on a sled. Sledge jump, Senka's feet, Sanka's side, Sonya's forehead, all in a snowdrift.
103. (S, r, t) - The longboat arrived at the port of Madras.
The sailor brought a mattress on board.
A sailor's mattress in the port of Madras
The albatrosses were torn apart in a fight.
104. (T, r, s) - Sergeant with the sergeant, captain with the captain.
105. (T) - Standing, standing at the gate, the Bull is stupidly wide-lipped.
106. (T,k) - The weaver weaves fabrics for Tanya’s scarves.
107. (T,k) - To interpret clearly, But there is no point in interpreting.
108. (T, t) - Fedka eats radish with vodka, eats Fedka with vodka and radish.
109. (T,r) - Spanking is of no use to Toropka. Toropka crust for future use.
110. (T) - Don’t go to such and such, don’t ask for such and such - here’s something for you.
111. (T,k) - The Turk smokes a pipe, the trigger pecks at the grain. Don't smoke a Turkish pipe, don't peck the trigger on a grain.
112. (F, h, n) - Feofan Mitrofanych has three sons Feofanych.
113. (F) - Fofan’s sweatshirt fits Fefele.
114. (F, d, b, r) - The defibrillator defibrillated, defibrillated, but did not defibrillate.
115. (F, r) - The pharaoh’s favorite for sapphire was replaced by jade.
116. (F,l,v) - I was at Frol’s, I lied to Frol about Lavra, I’ll go to Lavra, I lie to Lavra about Frol.
117. (X, t) - The crested girls laughed with laughter: Xa! Ha! Ha!
118. (X, h, p) - There was a commotion in the garden -
A thistle blossomed there.
So that your garden does not die out,
Weed the thistles.
119. (X, sch) - Khrushchi grab horsetails.
An armful of quinine is enough for cabbage soup.
120. (C, p) - The heron’s chicken tenaciously clung to the flail.
121. (C, x) - The heron wasted away, the heron was dry, the heron was dead.
122. (C, r) - The fellow ate thirty-three pie pies, all with cottage cheese.
123. (C) - Well done among the sheep, but against the well done the sheep itself.
124. (C, k, p, d, r) - Once upon a time there were three Chinese
Yak, Yak-Ci-Drak and Yak-Ci-Drak-Ci-Drak-Ci-Droni.
Once upon a time there were three Chinese women
Chicken, Chicken-Drip and Chicken-Drip-Limpompony.
Here they got married:
Yak on Tsype Yak-Tsi-Drak on Tsype-drip
Yak-Tsi-Drak-Tsi-Drak-Tsi-Droni on Chicken-Drip-Limpompony.
And they had children:
Yak and Tsypa have Shah,
Yak-Tsy has a fight with Tsypa-dripa - Shah-Shakhmoni,
U Yak-Tsi-Drak-Tsi-Drak-Tsi-Droni
With Chicken-Dripa-Limpompony -
Shah-Shakhmoni-Limpomponi.
125. (H, t) - A quarter of a quadruple pea, without a wormhole.
126. (Ch, sh, sh) - Scales on a pike, bristles on a pig.
127. (H) - Our daughter is eloquent, her speech is pure.
128. (H) - The turtle, not bored, sits for an hour with a cup of tea.
129. (B, R) - Four little black little imps drew a drawing with black ink extremely cleanly.
130. (H, r) - Four turtles have four turtles.
131. (H) - The custom of a bull, the mind of a calf.
132. (Ch, sh) - Three little birds are flying through three empty huts.
133. (Sh, s) - Sasha walked along the highway, carried a dryer on a pole and sucked on the dryer.
134. (Sh) - Even your neck, even your ears, you stained with black mascara. Get in the shower quickly. Rinse the mascara off your ears in the shower. Rinse off the mascara from your neck in the shower. After your shower, dry yourself off. Dry your neck, dry your ears, and don’t dirty your ears anymore.
135. (Sh) - The highest echelons walked drunk.
136. (W, F) - In the hut, a yellow dervish from Algeria rustles with silks and, juggling with knives, eats a piece of fig.
137. (Sh) - Shishiga walked along the highway, his pants rustling. The step will step, whisper: “Error.” Wiggles his ears.
138. (W) - Six little mice rustle in the reeds.
139. (Sh) - Boxwood, boxwood, how tightly you are sewn.
140. (W,m) - Jasper in suede is suede.
141. (Sh) - Forty mice walked, carrying sixteen pennies, two smaller mice carried two pennies each.
142. (Sh, k) - Two puppies, cheek to cheek, pinch the cheek in the corner.
143. (W, R) - The Staffordshire Terrier is zealous, and the black-haired Giant Schnauzer is playful.
144. (Sh, s) - Sasha has whey from yogurt in his porridge.
145. (Sh,k) - Sashka has cones and checkers in his pocket.
146. (Sh, k, v, r) - The cook cooked the porridge, boiled it, and undercooked it.
147. (W,F) - A piston is not a hornet:
does not buzz, glides quietly.
148. (Sh, r, k) - The little nesting doll’s earrings have disappeared.
Earrings I found an earring on the path.
149. (Sh, s, k) - Sunflowers look at the sun,
And the sun goes to sunflowers.
But the sun has a lot of sunflowers,
And the sunflower has only one sun.
Under the sun, the sunflower laughed sunnyly while it matured.
Ripe, dried up, pecked.
150. (W,R) - The balls of the ball bearing move around the bearing.
151. (Sh, s) - Sasha quickly dries the dryers.
I dried about six dryers.
And the old ladies are in a funny hurry
To eat Sasha's sushi.
152. (W, p, k) - Yeryoma and Foma have sashes that are wide all over their backs,
The caps are recapped, new,
Yes, the shlyk is well sewn, covered with embroidered velvet.
153. (Ш,р) - The riffraff rustled with the riffraff,
What rustling prevented the riffraff from rustling.
154. (Sh) - Mother gave Romasha whey from the yogurt.
155. (Sh,k) - Troshkina mongrel
She bit Pashka.
Pashka hits with his hat
Troshka's mongrel.
156. (W,k,h) - Under the mountain at the pine edge
Once upon a time there lived four old women,
All four are big talkers.
All day on the threshold of the hut
They chattered like turkeys.
The cuckoos fell silent on the pines,
Frogs crawled out of a puddle,
The poplars tilted their tops -
Hear old ladies chatting.
157. (Sh, k, p) - Pashkin’s mongrel bit Pavka on the leg, Pavka hits Pashkin’s mongrel with his hat.
158. (Sh, t) - The pike tries in vain to pinch the bream.
159. (Sh, t) - I’m dragging, dragging... I’m afraid I won’t drag it,
But I definitely won’t release it.
160. (Ш,ж,ц) - In a puddle, in the middle of a grove
Toads have their own living space.
Another tenant lives here -
Water swimming beetle.
161. (Ш,ж,ч) - The train rushes grinding: w, h, w, w, w, h, w, w.
162. (Sh, h) - The puppies’ cheeks were cleaned with brushes.
163. (Brush, h) - I brush my teeth with this brush,
I clean my shoes with this one,
I clean my pants with this one,
These brushes are all needed.
164. (SH, t) - Wolves are prowling - looking for food.
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Some people think that they have no problems with diction and this is true. However, when they come, for example, to get a job on television or as a radio presenter, they can immediately be told that for this they need to improve their diction. What methods can easily and quickly improve your diction level? There are several ways to help solve this problem in a short time.
You will need:
First Steps to Persuasive Speech
To speak confidently, beautifully and euphoniously, you need to perform a number of exercises. The first step is to learn how to pronounce plosive sounds well and clearly. Of course, if voiceless consonants are inaudible, then the level of diction will drop significantly. Due to the fact that the voiceless sounds themselves, in their structure, are quite quiet and incomprehensible, they must be pronounced much better than other vowels.
For example: p', t', k'.
Speak dull sounds without a voice, but with very great activity, as if exploding these sounds. After completing the exercise, pronounce the same sounds, but with your voice. This can be done by using consonants that follow the unvoiced ones.
For example, by, then, to, etc.
After completing the exercises, add voiced vowels and sibilants.
Books and reading aloud are a great help in improving diction
The second and very serious mistake of many is the incorrect pronunciation of the letter “G”.
Cuckoo cuckoo bought a hood
Lisping speech is an unforgivable mistake. Of course, if a person has an incorrectly developed bite or has a piercing in the tongue, then this is forgivable. However, it often happens that neither one nor the other is observed, so the culprit is a weak language.
To solve this problem It is necessary to do exercises not only for hissing sounds. For example, you need to learn to pronounce the sound “C” accurately and clearly.
You also need to learn to relax the muscles of your mouth and tense your tongue. You can do it like this:
- smile so that your teeth are visible;
- pull out your tongue a little;
- Use your mouth to blow a little air onto the tip of your tongue to hear a small whistle (this whistle is similar to the pronunciation of the letter “C”).
You need to see your mistakes directly
A good exercise is to read and talk in front of a mirror.
This is necessary so that you yourself can see your mistakes and see for yourself how your mouth muscles work. If you pronounce sounds and words, phrases in front of a mirror with diligent force, that is, make movements more flexible and strong, open your mouth more, etc., then over time you will hear that the level of your diction has increased significantly. And after such exercises it will be much easier for you to pronounce certain sounds.
Use third party items
Do exercises with foreign objects.
- For example, you can put small nuts in your mouth and speak tongue twisters with the nuts in your mouth, while pronouncing each sound well.
- You can also use, for example, a pen. Hold the pen between your lips or teeth, and then start reading the tongue twisters yourself.
It is worth considering that it is unlikely to succeed the first time, but there is no need to give up ahead of time. With long-term training everything will work out. Besides, you shouldn’t rush too much the first time.
It is better to pronounce each word at a slow pace, but clearly and clearly.
The clarity and literacy of the pronunciation of individual sounds, whole words and large sentences gives an impression of a person.
Competent and clear speech is a sign of an educated person, its significant advantage, which can be used in many life situations. The skill includes several components - proper diction, expressiveness of speech, a rich vocabulary, and competent structuring of speech.
Exercises to develop good diction:
Preparing words and writing a competent and convincing text may be simple, but pronouncing it will not be so easy. Poor diction and articulation can completely ruin a carefully prepared speech. The development of diction and the ability to speak beautifully is necessary in Everyday life, both when communicating with friends and family, and in conversations with work colleagues, business partners and clients.
Diction implies clear pronunciation of all sounds, correct stress, and no problems with articulation. Articulation disorders are associated with defects in the speech apparatus, which is responsible for clear pronunciation. Also, the quality of diction decreases due to non-compliance with the tempo of speech and the appearance of unclear endings.
Almost all diction problems can be corrected if desired. To do this you need to train regularly.
TONG TWISTERS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF DICTION
Tongue twisters have been known to us since childhood. These are rhythmic sentences, with a set of words where a certain sound or several sounds occur frequently. Frequently speaking tongue twisters will help teach you to articulate the desired sound correctly. Regular exercise will make your speech quick and clear.
You should start with simple tongue twisters. To begin with, the tempo of pronunciation should be low, try to pronounce words and sounds clearly. Gradually the speed needs to be increased. When you achieve perfection in pronouncing simple tongue twisters, you can take more complex designs. This will contribute to the development of good speech diction.
An addition to tongue twisters would be to place a barrier in the mouth to prevent proper articulation. This technique can be seen in the film “Carnival” (it is also described in many books on teaching public speaking). There the heroine uttered tongue twisters, putting nuts in her mouth. Nuts can be substituted wine cork. If you learn to clearly pronounce words with interference, then in its absence the speech apparatus will begin to work better, and diction will improve.
Our voice doesn't sound at all like we think it does. Therefore, a good exercise for developing diction would be correcting speech defects using dictaphone recordings. Read an excerpt from the book and then listen to the result. Note all the shortcomings and defects, and try to correct them next time. You need to record until you get the perfect result.
BREATHING TRAINING
Shortness of breath is a known problem that we face even in our daily lives. But at reports or public speeches this looks like a loser, since the sentence turns out to be intermittent, the effect of the spoken words is not always expressed in in full. Training the diaphragm will help get rid of this. One of the exercises for developing diction is to draw out the vowel sound as you exhale. At first, breathing will last for a few seconds, but with constant training you can reach 25 seconds. The next stage of the exercise is changing the pitch of your voice. You can also train your breathing by inflating balloons.
Good diction, clear pronunciation of sounds and pleasantness are the key to success in many areas modern life. Unique speech data is very rarely given to a person by nature. However, this art can be learned at any age if you regularly perform exercises to improve diction. When you eliminate speech impediments, you will stop worrying about things and will communicate more freely in informal settings. Perhaps after this your career will take off. Remember that in any place and in any profession there are people who know how to express their thoughts in a beautiful and concise form. In this article we will provide simple but effective exercises which will help improve your speech diction.
Articulation gymnastics
We often hear about the benefits of exercise for human health. However, few people think that the articulatory apparatus also needs constant training. By doing the exercise to improve your diction, just 10-15 minutes a day, you can achieve very good results. Start your day with this gymnastics - and very soon you will notice how the muscular system of your tongue, lips and cheeks has strengthened. The articulatory apparatus will become more mobile, and speech will become clearer.
- “Fence” - clench your teeth and smile broadly. Hold this position for ten seconds and return to the starting position. Make sure that the upper and lower rows of teeth are clearly visible. Repeat the exercise several times.
- “Tube” - without opening your teeth, stretch your lips forward. At the same time, you can drag out the sound “oo-oo-oo-oo” for ten seconds. Repeat the exercise.
- “Needle” - open your mouth and extend your sharp tongue as far as possible. Hold this position for five seconds and relax your muscles. Repeat several times.
- “Damn” - show your tongue to your reflection by placing it on your lower lip and making it as wide as possible. Repeat.
- “Lick your lips” - relax your lower jaw and try to keep it in one position. Lick your upper lip, extending your tongue as far as possible. Repeat the same action with your lower lip.
- “Swing” - touch your tongue alternately to the upper and lower lips. Perform the exercise at a slow pace and try not to move your chin.
- “Hamster” - close your lips and press the inside of your tongue onto your cheek for five seconds. Repeat the manipulation with the other cheek.
Correct breathing
Few people pay attention to their posture, the frequency of inhalation and exhalation while communicating with other people. It's a pity! It is these factors that play an important role in setting beautiful voice and clear pronunciation of words. Do the following exercise daily to improve your diction.
Exercises for inhalation and exhalation
- Starting position: stand straight, place your hands on your waist and your feet shoulder-width apart. Open your lips slightly and exhale slowly, as if overcoming resistance. When you start to succeed, complicate the task. For example, while exhaling, read any quatrain. Then try this exercise in combination with walking or squats.
- Return to the starting position, take a calm breath, slowly leaning forward. At the same time, pay attention to your back, which should be straight. As you exhale, begin to rise and make the “mm-mm” sound.
10 exercises to improve diction and voice tone
- Lower your chin to your chest and start moving left and right. The exercise is performed slowly and without sudden movements.
- Starting position: back straight, head also down. Slowly move your jaw forward and back as far as possible.
- Cross your arms across your chest and slowly lean forward, making the sound “oo-oo-oo” in a low voice.
- Stretch your lips into a wide smile and open your teeth. Start moving your tongue from right to left, relaxing your facial muscles.
- Extend your tongue and run it across outside upper and lower teeth. Repeat several times.
- Extend your tongue forward so that it resembles a bowl. Repeat.
- Don't forget about the role beautiful posture in speech production. Always pay attention to the position of your back. So that you understand how difficult it is, put several books on your head and walk around the room with them. Try reading a text or poem while in this position.
- Read texts with a pen or pencil held in your teeth. Try to pronounce words and individual sounds as clearly as possible. Repeat this exercise every day for 15 minutes.
- Read at a fast and slow pace, in a loud and quiet voice.
- Make the previous exercise more difficult. Read poetry when or while walking. Make sure you don’t lose your breath and maintain intonation pauses.
Pure talk
You can practice the pronunciation of individual sounds using special rhyming phrases or phrases. They contain the same consonant several times, and you can easily learn the sounds. Do these diction exercises daily.
Helpful tips on how to improve your diction and clarity of speech are given below. Start by pronouncing pure phrases at a slow pace. Pronounce each sound, pay attention to difficult combinations and check the clarity of your pronunciation. To avoid mistakes, listen to audio recordings of speakers. At the end of each workout, record yourself on a voice recorder, note mistakes and achievements.
Tongue Twisters
An exercise familiar to everyone since childhood to improve diction is very effective tool to achieve the set goal. By pronouncing difficult sounds and their combinations, you learn clear and precise pronunciation. Read the tongue twister very slowly, try to figuratively imagine the picture that the poem tells about. After this, try to increase the pace a little. Be sure to speak out loud, but if you start to get confused, then immediately return to speaking slowly. After some time, you will notice how naughty sounds will begin to be pronounced easily and naturally.
Intonation
you commit big mistake, if you think that people only perceive the information that is contained in your speech. In fact, the listener's attention is captured by the intonation with which the speaker speaks. Learn to pronounce phrases expressively by raising and lowering your voice. Only when you make emphasis and pause will the interlocutor fully appreciate your statements.
- Start with the most simple exercises and gradually make them more difficult.
- Use every minute of your free time to exercise. Only in this case will you be able to quickly achieve your goals.
- Exercise regularly without long breaks.
- Record short performances with a voice recorder or camera. Watch the videos, note the positive changes and take into account the points that you will have to work on in the future.
- Read literature on how to improve your diction. Exercises should be varied, otherwise you will quickly lose interest and give up classes.
- Do not neglect the help of specialists and teachers who can offer you useful exercise to improve your diction and eliminate common beginner mistakes.
- If you have the opportunity to enroll in acting classes, do so immediately. Classes will help you liberate your speech, movements and gestures. You will also learn expressive recitation and stop being afraid of public speaking.
Voice, diction and speech are important components for any successful public speaking. Many people have slurred speech, a low voice, and poor diction. The reasons for this are countless. Below we will look at the most basic reasons for such "diseases", and also consider ways that will help you develop your voice, develop diction and speech on your own. If you are interested in this topic, please read this article carefully and complete all the exercises outlined in it.
Causes of a low voice, poor diction and slurred speech
I know only a few reasons for a quiet voice, poor diction and slurred speech - this is, low and. There are also genetic reasons, but we will not touch on them. Why do I think that the main reasons for all this are lack of self-confidence and complexes? Do you think confident people with high self-esteem have a quiet voice? Do they speak quietly? They don't have intelligible speech? In most cases, such people do not have speech problems. Look at politicians, actors, singers. They are all confident people who constantly speak in front of the public. Therefore, their speech is developed, their voice is loud and there are no problems with diction.
Now let's take a shy person. During the conversation this shy man he experiences self-doubt, he believes that there is something wrong with him (complexes), he is overwhelmed by the feeling and, as a result, his voice is quiet, his speech is unintelligible, and it is simply impossible to listen to him. Therefore, if you want develop your voice, if you want to develop diction, if you want to develop speech, You need to carry out great job above oneself. Without effort, your voice will not become loud. Now we will move on to exercises that will help you achieve what you want. Let's start in order.
How to develop your voice?
So, as we have already found out, voice development is an important task for people whose profession is related to public speaking. Voice production is important not only for public people. A developed and loud voice will make your communication in everyday life easier, and you won’t be constantly asked: “Ahh?”, “What?”, “What?” and other annoying questions. By performing a series of exercises to develop your voice, you will eliminate many defects and shortcomings. So let's get started.
1) To make your voice sound, it is very important to breathe correctly. If you have just begun to develop your voice, then breathing exercises are the first thing you should do. Stand up, straighten your spine, place your feet shoulder-width apart, place one hand on your chest, the other on your stomach. As you inhale through your nose, push your belly forward (expanding your lower chest). Exhale air freely and naturally through your mouth, returning your stomach and chest to their original position. This is how you develop the diaphragm.
2) The second breathing exercise involves holding air. Inhale quickly through your nose and then hold your breath for three seconds. Then exhale through your mouth. Do this exercise for 5-10 minutes.
3) Inhale as much air as possible through your mouth, then slowly begin to exhale it, pronouncing the vowels (a, o, u, i, e, s). Try to make the sound of the vowel sound as loud as possible and for as long as possible. You can also, when exhaling, smoothly jump from one vowel to another -aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyy.
4) With your mouth closed while exhaling, begin "moo"- saying mmm. Try to hum so that your lips tickle. In addition, be sure to change the volume of the sound - from quiet to loud and vice versa. This exercise will help develop the articulatory apparatus, which will give strength to the voice.
5) Now start growling, saying rrrrr. This exercise also develops the articulatory apparatus. Change the volume of the sound, as well as intonation from subtle to rough.
How to develop diction?
Diction is the quality of pronunciation of words (distinction), the manner of pronouncing words. Diction is very important for actors, singers, politicians, and teachers.
Tongue twisters are suitable for developing diction. You can easily find them on the Internet. Here's a video for you as an example!
In order to begin to develop diction, you first need to stretch your tongue, lips, facial muscles and articulatory apparatus.
1) Let's start with the language. Stick your tongue forward as far as possible, then stick it back (just don't swallow it). Start forcing your tongue forward and then back. The duration of the exercise is 5-7 minutes.
2) Pricking the cheeks with the tongue. Start pricking your cheeks one by one with your tongue. First prick left cheek, then right. Take 7-12 minutes to complete. This is a great exercise for training your tongue.
3) Good exercise on the tongue - this "Teeth cleaning". You begin to rotate your tongue in a circle. The mouth must be closed. Make 20-30 rotations clockwise and counterclockwise.
4) Then, stick out your tongue and start twisting it in a circle. Make 10-15 circles clockwise, then counterclockwise. After this, wipe yourself off (wipe off the drool from your lips).
5) It’s almost the same with lips. The exercise is called "Tube - smile". First, you stretch your lips forward, after 3 seconds you begin to smile as wide as possible. First the lips forward, then back. Do this exercise for at least 7 minutes.
6) Next, stretch your lips into a tube and begin to lift your heels, first up, then down. Then start doing the same thing, only left, right. Then start turning the patch in a circle, clockwise and counterclockwise.
7) Next exercise – "Bubble". You puff up your cheeks and start spinning this bubble in a circle.
8) Start biting your upper lip with your teeth. Do it carefully, don't bite yourself. Then start biting your lower lip. After this, start wiping your upper teeth with your upper lip. Try to wipe so that the lower lip does not move. It's difficult, but possible. Do this exercise in front of a mirror to control yourself. Then start wiping your lower teeth with your lower lip, the upper lip should not move either.
9) After completing this warm-up, stand near a window and say the following phrase: "On the street good weather, and I have beautiful, clear, intelligible speech". Say this phrase loudly, clearly and clearly. They should hear you on the street.
10) To warm up your facial muscles, start kneading your face at random. Make faces, bulge your eyes. It doesn’t look pretty from the outside, but it’s funny and very effective.
11) In order for the pronunciation of words to be clear, it is necessary to pronounce the endings. Many people swallow endings, especially "th". Start saying the following row:
PTKA - PTKO - PTKU - PTKE - PTKI - PTKY
TPKA - TPKO - TPKU - TPKE - TPKI - TPKY
KPTA - KPTO - KPTU - KPTE - KPTI - KPTY
BI - PI - BE - PE - BA - PA - BO - PO - BU - PU - BU - PY
PI - BI - PE - BE - PA - BA - PO - BO - PU - BU - PU - WOULD
MVSTI - MVSTE - MVSTA - MVSTO - MVSTU - MVSTY
ZDRI - ZDRE - ZDRA - ZDRO - ZDRU - ZDRY
ZhDR - ZHDR - ZHDR - ZHDR - ZHDR - ZHDR
This series develops your diction. Don't forget about tongue twisters.
How to develop speech?
To develop speech you will need discipline, conscious control and consistency. Good speech is becoming less and less common these days. You can listen to one person for hours, but you want to run away from another. Your professional and personal life depends on the quality of your speech. Half of the success depends on the ability to communicate, and to be able to communicate, you need not only erudition, but also developed speech.
1) To develop speech, the first thing I advise you to do is read newspapers, magazines,... And you need to read it out loud. While reading, try to force your intonations and avoid monotony. Also, change the reading speed and volume. Pronounce all endings and follow punctuation marks. Reading aloud is the main exercise for speech development.
3) Thirdly, as when reading aloud, watch the pace of speech. Enrich it with intonations. Highlight with pauses important points conversation. The pause should be appropriate and not prolonged.
4) Fourth, expand your vocabulary. This can be done by watching films, trainings, and reading books. If you heard the president or another politician speak on TV, why don’t you try to say the same thing at home. Imagine that you are speaking in front of the public as the president. Tell your imaginary people about the political and economic situation in our country. This is a very exciting activity for developing speech and replenishing vocabulary.
I train my voice, diction and speech using the above method. In three months, your speech will be transformed beyond recognition. Therefore, do not be surprised if your friends begin to tell you that something has changed in you. And the voice, diction and speech have changed. Practice every day and your efforts will be rewarded.
How to develop a voice, How to develop diction, How to develop speech
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