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Sunday, January 11, 2009
-1:35 AM
Today i'm going to talk about how people in general, speak in public!
As i observe daily the speeches and sermons that people make, i realize that there is truly a need for people to go for public speaking courses and read books related to the topic.
One mistake that people make is that they SPEAK the way they write!
Speaking and writing were never meant to be the same entities. One should write in a professional manner with bombastic words but should never speak with bombastic words! Of course we have to speak professionally but when you speak, do not ever think that your audience english is equivalent to the students in Harvard University. Speaking with 'chim' words does not make you professional but rather, speaking with sentences constructed properly using relevant words makes you professional.
I hope that this is an enlightenment for most of you and for those of you who are speaking without 'chim' words, continue the good work!
Next mistake, or rather, a bad habit that most people have is that they use space fillers.
"Umm..." is one common space fillers but the next one that i think is getting more and more common is the word "Man". I use it a lot too when i go up to people and say, "hey man..." I can't believe i do that to girls to!
So to get rid of it, what you can do is to grab a friend to practise with you. Time yourself and talk about any topic under the sun and get your friend to see how many 'umm' or whatever space fillers you use!
I hope this is helpful for you to speak in public.
Rastus
