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Speaking Life
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Speak well, live well. Public speaking is feared by many and understood by few. Learn how to become a better speaker and to become a more effective communicator through speaking life.
- Author: Panzer
- Listed in: Adult Education Education
- Tags: communication public speaking toastmasters speechcraft how to speak better speaking in front of audience
Recent Posts
Squid
Dear friendsThis blog has been relatively inactive due to the first year or so spending time with my beautiful baby daughter grow up. She's now all of 15 months old and is the light of my life.I'm getting back into toastmastering bit by bit and will ...
Learning Never Stops
One of the things that I've learnt as a toastmaster is that learning never stops. Once we stop learning, our brain atrophies and old connections between our brain cells either stop working or become less active.Besides joining a toastmasters club and...
I share your fear: public speaking for the first time
Public speaking comes easy to some but not so for others.I realised that I had some ability in public speaking only after making mistakes such as having up to 40+ pause fillers in my speech and also forgetting bits of my speech even as it was being c...
Sabbatical from Public Speaking
I continue to be on a sabbatical from toastmastering due to my daughter being born in March 2008. Her presence has enriched my life and made me realise that as much as I enjoy toastmastering, I need to take time off to see her grow up for the first f...
Communicate More Through Learning a New Language
Image via WikipediaAs part of my toastmasters experience, I realise the importance of learning and mastering languages. In Singapore, many of us here are conversant in at least two languages. The first is English which is the medium of instruction. T...
Collecting your thoughts before you speak
Public speaking - thinking before speakingBeing involved in public speaking and toastmastering has made me more self-aware about the processes that go on before I utter a single syllable in a group setting. You become more aware of how your mind reac...
