Exercises for beautiful diction. “Dictaphone” task and two most effective techniques for improving speech and diction
According to statistics, about 30% of people suffer from diction disorders to some extent. Speech defects can be congenital, resulting from genes or intrauterine development, but most often, diction disorders are an acquired feature: defects appear and develop from the moment of birth and throughout life, their main reason is weakening of the muscles of the speech apparatus. In such cases, speech defects can be corrected independently, without the intervention of surgeons. We will look at the most common of them. So, how you can correct and improve your diction and overcome speech defects.
How to fix burr
Speech therapists have counted about 30 variants of distortion of the sound “r”, but most often it is its absence in pronunciation. This speech defect is very rarely congenital., but sometimes it can be caused by a too short hyoid ligament. The only solution to this problem is surgery. In other cases, the cause of burr lies in the weakness of the tongue.
Diction exercises
To develop the muscles of the tongue you will need to do the following:
1. Spread your tongue along the perimeter of your lower lip and pronounce the sounds “five-five-five.” You need to achieve an effect where the tongue can lie relaxed during the exercise. If successful, move on to the next step.
2. Try to cover the entire width of your upper lip with your tongue, from one corner of your mouth to the other. Then, maintaining the width of your tongue, move it under your upper teeth and practice pronouncing the sound “d-d-d.” If the muscles of the tongue are too weak, you can use a spoon to secure its position at first.
After a while, if you alternate exercises with tongue twisters, the sound “r” will begin to break through.
How to fix a lisp
If everyone is in their place and the bite is correct, then The cause of lisping speech is again weakness of the tongue muscles. For those who want to fight this defect, it is advisable to read aloud as much as possible: it is both useful for diction and enjoyable.
Diction exercises
1. Open your mouth in a wide smile so that your teeth are visible. Then you need to blow on the tip of your tongue until the whistling noise characteristic of the “s” sound is produced.
2. Do not remove your smile: run the tip of your tongue from the inside along the top row of teeth, from beginning to end, and then move on to the bottom row. The jaw should remain motionless.
3. Place your tongue between your upper and lower teeth and pronounce the syllable “sa.” At the sound “a” the mouth should open.
We also note that before getting rid of a lisp, you should make sure that you do not have problems with air passage through your nose. The fact is that when breathing through the nose is difficult, a person gets used to breathing only through the mouth, which causes the muscles of the tongue to become limp and weak.
How to fix slurred speech
The next common speech defect is expressed in slurred pronunciation of words, “swallowing” whole pieces of sounds. If instead of the word “person” you pronounce “check”, and “in short” sounds like “nomad”, the following tips will be useful to you:
1. Scan poems periodically, while beating the rhythm with your hand. Mayakovsky’s creations are perfect for this.
2. Create a collection of words in which you find an abundance of adjacent consonants and read the list periodically. We have already selected several of these: counter-revolution, postscript, stay awake, supernatural, party contribution and gratuitousness.
These exercises and tips will help you improve and correct your diction, but if the problem is too serious, contact a speech therapist - a professional will select methods and exercises exclusively for your case. Remember that Speech defects can and should be dealt with, even if you don’t dream of becoming a radio host. Good luck.
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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.
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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”.
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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.
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 causes of such “diseases”, as well as 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.
I know only a few reasons for a quiet voice, poor diction and slurred speech - self-doubt, low self-esteem and complexes. There are also genetic reasons, but we will not touch on them. Why do I think that the main reasons for all this are self-doubt, shyness and complexes? Do you think confident people with high self-esteem have a quiet voice? Do they speak quietly? Do they have slurred 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 communication, this shy person experiences self-doubt, he believes that there is something wrong with him (complexes), he is overcome by a feeling of fear 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 to develop your voice, if you want to develop diction, if you want to develop speech, you need to do a lot of work on yourself. 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.
So, as we have already found out, voice development is an important task for people whose profession involves public speaking. Voice production is important not only for public people. A developed and loud voice will make your communication easier in everyday life, 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 sonorous, 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 smoothly jump from one vowel to another as you exhale -aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa-aaaaaaaaaaa-aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
4) With your mouth closed while exhaling, begin to “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 the left cheek, then the right. Take 7-12 minutes to complete. This is a great exercise for training your tongue.
3) A good tongue exercise is “Brushing your teeth.” 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) The next exercise is “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 the window and say the following phrase: “The weather is good outside, 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 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 books. 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. Use pauses to highlight important points in the 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.
Hello again! Today we will talk about how to improve your diction . It's no secret that excellent diction is very important for a person in everyday life. But about 30% of people in the world suffer from diction disorders to one degree or another. If you have landed on this page, it means you really want to improve your diction, so I suggest moving straight to solving this problem.
Exercises to improve diction:
1) Tongue twisters
They have been known to us since early childhood. For those who have forgotten, these are a kind of rhythmic sentences with a selection of words, where certain sounds often come across. Regularly practicing tongue twisters can significantly improve your diction, making your speech fast and clear.
It’s worth starting with the simplest tongue twisters. To begin with, the speed of pronunciation should not be too high; bring the pronunciation of sounds and words to clarity. Then you can move on to more complex and multi-level tongue twisters.
Once you're done with that, you can add an obstacle in the mouth to make it more difficult to speak with correct articulation. You can put a walnut, a grape cork, or whatever you have the imagination for in your mouth. This will also greatly improve your diction.
Download the collection of tongue twisters in pdf format
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When speaking for a long time, clearly and beautifully, we often experience shortness of breath. This is especially evident in the form of intermittent and unexpressed speech. This can be corrected by training the diaphragm. You can also train your diaphragm in different ways. Start by blowing up balloons. Then start pulling out the vowel sounds, at first it will turn out bad, but over time you can achieve it for 20 - 30 seconds. After this, you can change the pitch of your voice.
3) Articulation exercises
- Lower your lower jaw. Slowly move it left and right, then up and down.
- Stand up and place your hands near your chest. As you bend over, as you exhale, say the vowels “u” and “o” long and drawn out in a low voice.
- Open your mouth and smile, then start moving your tongue from one corner of your lips to the other. At the same time, the jaw and lips should remain motionless.
- Close your mouth and lick your teeth under the lower and then under the upper lip. Make sure your jaws and lips remain motionless.
- Open your mouth and smile, and smoothly run your tongue over your upper teeth, touching each tooth as if you were counting them. Make sure that the jaw does not move. Then the same action only on the lower lips.
- Close your mouth and press the tense tip of your tongue either against the left or right cheek.
- Open your mouth and smile. Raise your tongue to your nose, then lower it to your chin.
Regular diction training will lead to its irreparable improvement. Perform these exercises daily and the results will not keep you waiting. I wish you every success in improving your diction!
And finally, a clear example of excellent diction 😉
Not all people know that you can create your own voice and do not need to sign up for special classes.
But first you need to understand the most important and basic things.
You should feel all the vibrations in your body when you say something.
Why this is so important - the punch analogy
Let's give an analogy with a boxing fist blow.
- When the right blow is thrown, the whole body is invested in it. It's not just one fist pumping.
The body, when struck correctly, is not static and is also invested in it, and only then the blow becomes 10 times stronger and more dangerous for the enemy. - If you don't use your body's strength When you hit with your fist and you don’t put any effort into it, it won’t be a blow, but just a movement with one hand.
You should apply the same thing in conversation.
You must include your whole body in expressing yourself.
Take a deep breath and then speak, otherwise no one will hear you.
2. Use the right key
There are 3 types of tones in total:
- seeking/needing;
- normal;
- torn.
Seeking or needing tonality (1)
Also on the street, beggars approach people on the street and ask for money. It's a seeker trying to please rapport.
For example:
- Can you tell me the time?
- Would you like to eat some delicious pizza with me?
- My computer is broken, please fix it.
This is unattractive and disgusting.
Normal key (2)
When you talk to a person completely neutrally, without any special emotions.
For example:
- We're doing well today.
- I had a good time in the park.
- Dad bought a new car.
Torn rapport (3)
From the outside, this tone looks as if you don’t want anything from this person and as if you don’t really want to talk to him.
With this tone, you don’t try to impress your interlocutor, you try less and stress less.
This tone will be useful for men to lead with women.
Examples of 3 keys:
- In general, we had a great time the day before yesterday.
- Great T-shirt you have.
- We are now going to our favorite place by the river.
In order to be centered and in a permanent state when communicating, you need to speak with most people in a torn to normal tone. If most of the time your voice is between ragged and normal tonality, and you also diversify it sometimes with seeking rapport, then your voice will be cheeky and funny at the same time. It will be fun and varied at the same time.
Therefore, use all three types of tonality skillfully, and then you will know everything about how to deliver speech and voice. You will have a charming and unique tonality.
Remember that confidence plays a key role in communication. self confidence for girls you can read the link on our website.
3. Get rid of excess mucus in your mouth first thing in the morning.
In the morning, everyone has this mucus and saliva in their mouth, which needs to be gotten rid of. They don't allow your voice to open up.
Due to mucus in the mouth, people often speak through their nose, as if they were dubbing pirated films. All voice and speech exercises are performed much easier and more productive if there is no excess mucus in the oral cavity.
To get rid of mucus in your mouth as soon as you wake up clean your tongue with toothpaste and a brush first thing in the morning!
That is, when you go to brush your teeth, you also brush your tongue.
Thus, all excess mucus comes out of the mouth. Cough up. You will know when enough is enough.
The procedure is not so pleasant, but very useful. Takes approximately 3 - 4 minutes.
4. Warm up and stretch vowel sounds starting from high notes to low notes
Otherwise, there will be internal resistance and the voice will not be congruent. ABOUT congruence we tell you in detail.
If you don't warm up, then everything you say and do will degrade and degrade your communication and expression.
To avoid worrying about how to develop a beautiful voice timbre, use this useful exercise.
Say these sounds in the same order, in which they are indicated:
When performing a vocal exercise for the voice with these sounds from “I” to “U”, you go on a scale from high notes to low notes.
Walk through these sounds 2 times. You start with a high “I” sound and end with a low “U” sound.
It relaxes and opens your throat.
All our exercises will help those who will subsequently express themselves openly and will not be ashamed of their voice.
We have a complete article on our website about how to stop being shy about people. It can be found.
5. Moo
Mooing means making the “M” sound. This is a well-known singing exercise and must be done correctly.
When mooing correctly, your lips should itch.
If the inside of your throat itches, then you need to raise your neck higher.
Errors:
- Don't take in too much air.
- No need to moo like a cow. This is not at all effective and will not help development in any way.
- When mooing and raising a voice, men or women may experience pain in the throat. Stop immediately if these symptoms begin.
- During this exercise, do not try to hit any high notes. That is, hum at a neutral volume that does not bother you in any way.
- There is no need to strain your facial muscles or jaw. Everything is in a calm, relaxed position, the same as when pronouncing the short sound “M”.
6. Relieve tension in your throat and mouth
Execution order:
You begin to tense your mouth, throat and neck a little, and thereby you exercise and expand the capabilities of your voice when communicating.
- Tension is released and released from your neck, throat and mouth.
- The voice and throat opens.
- You begin to speak clearer and more clearly.
- You begin to breathe deeper.
- The capabilities of the language when speaking begin to be used more.
You can see how to perform this exercise visually in one of our video lessons on how to create a voice yourself.
7. Good neck stretch
The exercise will be especially useful for those who spend a lot of time at the computer and want to know everything about how to develop their voice on their own.
In people with sedentary work, the neck and head are often compressed into an uncomfortable position, the chin is kept too low.
How to perform:
- Place your tongue on the upper teeth in the middle.
- Then raise your head and gently stretch your neck, slightly tilting it up, left, right, and forward.
- It's similar to how you stretch your muscles before you start lifting in the gym.
Pros of Stretching neck is that you begin to project your voice better, especially in noisy places.
For a visual demonstration of the exercise, see below in the next series of free video lessons for voice training from scratch.
8. Repeating the word “Glap”
The essence of the exercise is that:
- The voice becomes louder, clearer.
- It becomes easier to control and project it.
To see how to clearly perform the exercise, watch the next video in the series on how to train your voice for singing at home.
9. Lip trilling is very useful for voice production.
This exercise is a bit like simulating a car engine. With it you will be able to put your voice correctly, especially when there is a visual video lesson below.
It doesn't matter how it looks from the outside. The main thing is that it is effective.
The meaning of this is that:
- You relax your lips and imitate that trill sound.
- The vibration of the lips due to the exhalation of air makes them more mobile.
- At the same time, you can make smooth movements with your neck, making it more relaxed. But this is not necessary.
It's like when little boys played with cars in the sandbox when they were children.
For more details on how to perform the exercise, see the next video on how to develop a beautiful voice.
10. Exercise for diction
We pronounce any text with our mouth closed
How to perform in detail:
- Take any text or newspaper and start reading it with your mouth closed.
- You close your lips, but your teeth should be open.
- First, inhale a lot of air and begin.
Maybe it won't work out so well at first.
But, gradually, even with your mouth closed, your speech will be better perceived by people’s ears and will become more understandable.
Know that the result will come, don’t lose motivation and.
What are the advantages?:
- Once you open your mouth, your speech will become even more intelligible. So, little by little you will be able to develop your beautiful voice.
- Your speech will become pleasant, harmonious and clear.
How to clearly perform the exercise, see the next special video on how to improve your voice at home, pronouncing the text with your mouth closed.
11. Repeat tongue twisters 10 times
The point is that the muscles of the mouth expand and it becomes easier to communicate.
The effect of the exercise will be twice as great, if you repeat the tongue twister with your mouth closed. We talked about this above in the 10th method.
There are a lot of different tongue twisters. For example:
- “Sashka has cones and checkers in his pocket”;
- “Mother gave Romasha whey from the yogurt.”
Choose 2-3 ones you like and start repeating each one 10 times. This last method will answer all your questions about how to improve your voice and diction.
Conclusion
After doing the exercises, you will want to get rid of excess mucus in your mouth.
This is a very good sign and it's normal.
By doing these exercises in the morning, you will notice how your voice will noticeably improve in a month. Take some time for yourself.
Don't forget about confidence
Confidence is the main parameter for a good voice.
Speak with confidence and without hesitation.
Now you know everything about how to create your own voice for singing.
Invest time in developing yourself, and the results will not keep you waiting.