What is the difference between a researcher and a children's animator? The scientist speaks clearly, briefly, correctly, but is dry and boring. At the same animator vocabulary is rich, bright, figurative, but often illiterate. A bunch of words with diminutive suffixes, incorrect endings amuse children, but are unacceptable for adults. However, if you take from the language of both workers only the best, you get the perfect syllable. How to improve the speech so that it displays everything - and the scholar's erudition, and the brightness of the animator?
How to improve your speech technically
Learn Orthoepy
The pronunciation of sounds is in vain underestimated. Together they add up into syllables, those into words, and the latter into phrases. If only one detail is spoken incorrectly, it can distort the whole sentence. This is fraught with distortion of meaning, misunderstandings.
Fortunately, there are plenty of textbooks on the Internet that explain orthoepic norms. Here, for example, a few rules of Russian orthoepy:
- if the word has the letter “e”, the stress will always fall on it;
- “H”, “u”, “sch” and “zh” sound soft in any position (unlike the Ukrainian language, where they are solid);
- adjectives in the genitive case ending in “-y,” “-y,” are read as [-ow], [-iva] or [-ave];
- the unstressed letter “o” in the first syllable is read as [a] ([∧]);
- ringing “b”, “c”, “g”, “d”, “g” and “z” at the end of words turn into deaf “n”, “ph”, “k / x”, “t”, “w ”And“ c ”respectively.
After studying this topic in detail, you can get rid of the accent and signs of a dialect. If you want to speak beautifully in a foreign language, you will have to learn its orthoepic rules.
Look into grammar textbooks
Grammar is a section of linguistics, which includes morphology and syntax. This discipline is the core of any language, as it explains most of the linguistic patterns. Having opened the manual on grammar, you can find out how:
- correctly conjugate verbs by faces and numbers;
- correctly incline nouns in cases;
- use modal, auxiliary parts of speech;
- modify verb forms to convey time;
- combine different language units;
- competently make sentences.
How can a person understand that his speech lacks literacy? If the phrases “play the piano”, “more beautiful”, “studying the instruction, there was a feeling ...” do not cause any discomfort or suspicion, then it is time to take up the grammar of the Russian language.
Work on vocabulary
Grammar is the core of the technical part of speech, vocabulary is its shell. Nobody will buy the most delicious candies if they are packed in dirty, torn or nondescript wrappers. A person may know the rules of the language, but be unable to convey the essence of the thought due to scanty vocabulary. And they will lose interest in it - in the same way as for sweet with an inconspicuous wrap.
However, it is not enough just to memorize a few new words. It is also better to ask them:
- direct values;
- figurative meanings;
- emotional coloring;
- frequency, demand;
- scope of use;
- degree of clarity for others.
If you dig deeper, delve into the history of tokens, you can learn the pun - an amusing play on words.
Rich vocabulary allows you to communicate without hesitation and awkward pauses. It makes it possible to transmit thoughts more accurately, vividly, avoiding misunderstandings. Such advantages help in career advancement and other ascents.
Learn to express your thoughts correctly.
In this case, you will need not just knowledge, but the skills that help to use this theory. The necessary logic that develops:
- sequence;
- ability to analyze, synthesis, induction, deduction;
- specification (lack of "water", the selection of the main);
- tendency to laconicism;
- outlook, its breadth and versatility;
- comprehensive information;
- the ability to avoid linguistic and semantic tautologies (repetitions).
The consistency of information makes it useful for listeners. They begin to listen to the interlocutor, to consult with him. Logic evokes trust, a sense of reliability and confidence. In this case, it is not necessary to become Sherlock Holmes or a private detective and show the most subtle manifestations of deduction. It is enough to develop your skills to the level at which they will help in communication.
But how to “revive” your speech, breathe the soul into it, you can find out in the next section of the article.
How to develop speech artistically
Use epithets
Epithets are expressed mainly by adjectives. They make the speech more expressive, but use them better with the mind. Some tips:
- do not use more than 2 (as a last resort 3) paths in a row;
- avoid too exaggerated, “theatrical” words (“the finest snow”, “universal gratitude”);
- ensure that adjectives are consistent with nouns;
- to avoid repetitions (“a beautiful vase flaunted on a beautiful tablecloth”);
- to the main subjects or personalities of the story to select the most vivid epithets.
Since these paths are figurative, you can experiment with them. Their use is combined with the author's conjecture and creative flight of thought. However, the logic in the selection of epithets is still important. Another proof that the connection between the technical and artistic parts is inviolable.
Build bright images
Epithets are not the only means that fill speech with expressiveness. Commonly used figures also include:
- a metaphor - a figurative, often hidden comparison, a transfer of meaning (“snakelike glance”, “the sun laughs”, “sky embroidered with a cloudy pattern”);
- oxymoron - inconsistency (“voice of silence”, “hot ice floe”, “good villain”);
- antithesis - opposition (“strangers roam in our land”, “love and hate”, “black lace curled on a white dress”);
- hyperbole - exaggeration (“omnipotent person”, “she is not just a problem, she is a natural disaster”, “rummaged through a ton of papers”);
- lithota - decrease or softening (“as light as a feather, a ballerina”, “wasp waist”, “a huge dog suddenly seemed like a puppy”).
Direct comparisons are less expressive than the listed paths. However, they force listeners to present specific images, which facilitates the understanding of information.
Develop a sense of humor
Practically in every circle of friends there is a person who always has a couple of jokes or life stories for all occasions. If at the same time he has charisma, he is doomed to be the soul of the company.
Adequate sense of humor allows you to pick the right jokes for any event. It does not accept vulgarity, cynicism, sarcasm, where all this can harm. Even “black humor” has the right to exist, if it is used among understanding people and does not affect anyone’s interests or feelings. For such a level it is necessary to work on charm, wit and easy self-irony.
Love psychology
In order to find a psychologist in oneself, one doesn’t have to go into someone’s head or develop hereditary psychic. It is enough to connect attentiveness, ingenuity and a little imagination. How to show the techniques of psychology in an interview:
- skillfully create intrigue (prepare a surprise or describe something without naming the subject itself);
- to mention in the conversation the facts from the topic of interest to the interlocutor;
- make contact (catch sight, make sure that the listener is watching the expression of the face, gestures of the narrator);
- unobtrusively direct the conversation in the right direction ("His project is good. It is logical and simple. True ... There is not enough memorable detail. By the way, I can demonstrate how to create and use such a" flavor "by the example of my work");
- check the degree of interest, tracing whether the interlocutor repeats the speaker's movements (unconsciously).
Recommendations on how to improve speech, set the direction. Their implementation will take far more than one day. This is a colossal job that requires constant development. Surely at first, at least one piece of advice will be hard or even impossible to follow. However, if you clamp the will in a fist and do not stop in the middle of the road, success will not take long.
