From stuttering to fluent speech through memorization

When it comes to public speaking, people who stutter have a really hard time. Add in the stress associated with public speaking and you can see a mess. But does it really have to be this way? Isn’t there a way to prevent voice tone changes, stuttering, and general nervousness while speaking in public? Fortunately, there is a way. Memorization Yes just that. Not having the text written on a few sheets of paper, but memorizing it, will help you to speak much more fluently and naturally, even if you normally stutter in such situations.

Memorization, rote learning, what could be easier? But is it really that simple? How long do you need to memorize a poem? Are you not afraid of forgetting a word or a line, even if you have rehearsed it a thousand times? And what about a longer text? Do you always make your speeches by reading them? Doesn’t your voice change then? Isn’t it getting higher and higher? Very often this happens. Even though the text is written and in front of our eyes, we tend to get nervous, and what was to be a brave and brilliant presentation turns out to be a disaster. Still, it doesn’t have to be this way.

Proper memorization will help make your speech much more interesting than you might expect. And my favorite exercise is a copy of Sir Winston Churchill (at least his biographers say he used it). You not only memorize the text from beginning to end, but also backwards. Begin by reading the text aloud first paragraph by paragraph, breathing properly. Slow down if you feel short of breath, breathe more. Take a pencil, mark your breaths in the text. Repeat for all paragraphs. Now read the text one more time, breathing as you have marked it. Don’t rush, rather slow down. Then read the text from breath to breath and repeat, keeping the same rhythm and breathing in the same places.

After you’ve practiced reading, speaking, and breathing, start learning the text by heart. Use whatever your favorite method is, but remember that the more senses are involved in the learning process, the more effective the learning will be. You can turn on some soft music. You can walk while you memorize the text, you can gesticulate. Anything you do will help you remember the text first, and secondly, it will divert your attention from the way you speak and you will speak more fluently.

When you are done rehearsing the text and can repeat it with a degree of confidence, begin to learn it backwards. backwards means me and. At first it doesn’t make sense, but then you will become even more familiar with the text.

If you have someone to help you with the essay, you can do one more exercise with the text that you have to memorize. First, number the paragraphs. Next, take a sheet of paper and write the number of paragraphs and the first word of each paragraph next to the number. Now, hand the text over to your partner and ask him or her to call paragraph numbers while trying to repeat the entire paragraph looking at only the first word. Remember to keep the pace slow to speak and breathe.

So there are actually two things you need to memorize: the text itself and the speaking and breathing sequence. When you have mastered both, you can confidently step out and deliver the speech, looking only at the list with the paragraph numbers and your first few words.