Chapter 115 Make your speech more natural and vivid

Only a speech that is free from exaggeration, true and natural can be easily accepted by the audience and touch the hearts of the audience.To be natural is to make your speech clearer and more vivid. In fact, there is nothing mysterious about these things. When you talk to people, you have actually used most of these principles, and you may not feel that you have used them at all, just as you will The food eaten for dinner is digested so naturally.Hey, that's exactly the way you're going to use these principles, and it's the only way.In oratory, there is really no other way to achieve this than practice.

In everyday conversation, we should emphasize some important words and skip over others.This is also the way to deal with the entire sentence, so that some important words and sentences can be highlighted. Let me give you an example, read aloud the following passage from General Napoleon, the elicited words are pronounced emphatically, and the other words are pronounced quickly.How do you feel about the effect? I can "succeed" in whatever work I decide to do because I have "made up my mind."I never "hesitated" so I was above the rest of the world. Of course, this is not the only way to read this passage, and another speaker may pronounce it differently from you.How to emphasize the tone, and there is no certain rules, it depends on the situation.

Read the following little poem aloud with enthusiasm, trying to make the meaning clear and persuasive.See if you are emphasizing the important words and saying the unimportant ones quickly? If you think you're beaten, fine. If you think you are not defeated, you will not fail. If you want to win, but think you can't, You can be sure that you will not be victorious. In life it doesn't have to be the stronger or the faster who wins, Those who win in the end must be those who think they can win. When we are talking with people, the voice tends to go from high to low, and this state of high and low will continue to repeat, just like the surface of the sea.Why is this?I'm afraid no one knows, and no one cares.But it's a pleasant way to do it, and it's a natural way to do it.We never have to learn to express it this way.We have been able to speak in this way since childhood, we don't need to pursue it, we just learn it unconsciously.But as soon as we stand up and face the audience, our voices are as dull, flat and monotonous as the Nevada desert.If you find yourself speaking in a monotonous voice--usually a high-pitched voice--pause for a moment and say to yourself, "I'm talking like an Indian carved out of wood. .Speak humanly and naturally to these people in the audience.”

Would it be any help to say these words to myself when I was in such an embarrassing situation?Maybe a little.At least a little pause will help you.But you usually have to practice more to develop your own solution. You can stand out any sentence or word you pick, just like that green laurel tree in your front yard.You can achieve this simply by raising or lowering your voice abruptly when speaking these prominent sentences.Dr. Cadman, a well-known Congregational Church pastor in Brooklyn, New York, often does this, as do Sir Oliver Roger, Brian, and Roosevelt.Almost every famous orator does this—it's an immutable law of oratory.

When children speak, or when we usually talk to people, we always change the speed of our speech.This method is very pleasant to listen to, very natural, does not make people feel strange, and has an emphatic effect.In fact, this is the best way to make a point stand out. Walter Stevens tells us in his book "Lincoln Through the Eyes of a Reporter" that this was one of Lincoln's favorite ways of emphasizing a point: He would utter a few words at a rapid pace, and when he came to the word or sentence he wished to emphasize, he would let his voice draw out and speak each word with great emphasis, and then, like lightning, Sentences are finished quickly... He prolongs the word or sentence he wants to emphasize almost as long as he spends on the other five or six unimportant sentences.

Speaking in this way is bound to get the listener's attention.To give another example, I often quote the following speech by Bishop Gibbons in my lectures.I like to emphasize the tone of my quotations, so I always draw out the important words as long as I can, and bring them up for emphasis, as if I were deeply moved by them myself— And I was really touched.Please read it aloud, try this method, and see how it works. Try the following experiment: Say $30 million quickly, in a flat tone that makes it sound like it's a small amount of money.Then, say $30,000 again, slowly and with a heavy feeling, as if you were extremely impressed by the sheer amount of money.Does that sound like $30,000 is more than $30 million?

One's uninhibited conversation in everyday life may itself need much improvement.Therefore, first bring your daily conversation to a state of perfect naturalness, and then bring this method to the podium.