by Lori Nagel | Jan 30, 2023 | 15 weeks of talking tips
Talking Tip #15: Controlling the rate at which you speak will have a positive impact on your communication. Speech Rate In this last post, I want to talk a bit about speech rate- how quickly we talk. Many of us are fast talkers, and we are guilty of running...
by Lori Nagel | Jan 23, 2023 | 15 weeks of talking tips
Talking Tip #14: Projecting your voice the right way will make your message clear and understandable. What do we do if we want to speak louder? How do we make ourselves heard in a noisy restaurant or through a mask? Do we yell? Do we force our speech? ...
by Lori Nagel | Jan 9, 2023 | 15 weeks of talking tips
Talking Tip #13: Knowing about syllables and the phonemes of a language can help with speech clarity. This post addresses a few of the core components of our speech and language syllables and phomemes. When we talk, what exactly are we saying? Do we...
by Lori Nagel | Jan 2, 2023 | 15 weeks of talking tips
Talking Tip #12: Make sure to stress the important word in your message. We’ve already talked about stress in words making sure we stress the correct syllable in long words so that others understand us. But did you know that stressing the correct word...
by Lori Nagel | Dec 26, 2022 | 15 weeks of talking tips
Talking Tip #11: Saying words with the correct emphasis or stressed syllable makes a huge impact on how well you are understood. Stress Stress can mean a few different things. It’s something we feel. It’s something we experience. It’s also an aspect...
by Lori Nagel | Dec 19, 2022 | 15 weeks of talking tips
Talking tip #10: Pitch in questions can rise or fall at the end of our message depending on the type of question we ask. In our last post, we talked about pitch in our statements, that our pitch starts low, rises up and down, goes to its highest level on the...
