Why I Love Voice Coaching There are many reasons why I love voice coaching: I love helping people who are scared, how to do their business presentations ... I love teaching people how easy it is to reduce their accent and acquire a more neutral British accent, that won't pigeonhole them! I love teaching voice [...]
Clever People Talk Quickly Clever people talk quickly - it's a fact of life. Clever people talk quickly, because their brains work quickly - like they have have an i7 processor (latest speeds of computers' abilities to process information ) rather than an i5 or even an i3. Clients often come to me saying, "I [...]
Did You Know Listening To And Watching is A Great Way To Improve Your Speech? I've been listening to and watching, The Last Post on BBC 1, Sunday evenings at 9pm, which is a great show to improve your speech and, entertaining and disturbing in equal measures. To improve your speech, this really is an [...]
How to Perform Public Speaking (With or Without A Dry Throat) Last week the Daily Telegraph called me, to interview me, on how Theresa May could have coped public speaking, with a dry throat. Water, water and more water – is the simple answer. Lozenges work because they make you swallow, but water is much [...]
Elocution Learning excellent elocution should be fun. I have just finished listening to The Forsytes ~ on BBC Radio 4. It's a dramatised version of the novels by John Galsworthy, dramatised for radio by Shaun McKenna and it is wonderful and great for improving your elocution! Over the next two years, BBC Radio 4 is [...]
One of the techniques I teach for Public Speaking & Elocution, creating a bright, open, attractively toned voice, is a singing discipline I learned from my late singing teacher Ian Adam. He was a wonderful man whom believed and proved, as I have done using his techniques, that ANYONE can sing. And indeed using his [...]
Listening to well spoken English is essential for your progress, so I am sending you a link of a very interesting audio programme - all spoken in clear standard English - called Our Own Correspondent - a selection of audio articles submitted from BBC journalists working around the world. This an opportunity for you to [...]