Toastmasters
The Toastmasters International came up with a list of things that people could do to lessen the nerves before giving a speech. The organization helps those would like to be future speakers and leaders in the community. One thing that people could do to be confident during a speech is to know the material very well, if you know the speech by heart then everything will be all right. It is also very helpful if the speaker knows the kind of audience that he or she will be having as well as the venue.
And of course practice, practice and more practice would make everything controllable.
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Addressing the Public
Whenever you get a chance to speak in front of many people, you have to remember to just be yourself and not to try and be somebody else, especially someone the crowd or the audience can not identify with. A good speaker is sensitive to his or her addressees. Another thing to remember whenever you are talking to a lot of people is that you are bound to make some mistake and this is very normal. People do commit mistakes and it is all right, as long as you try and get your facts straight.
Lastly try not to write a script because you will just end up reading it or you would sound very monotonous, limit your pauses but try not to speak fast as well and to finish just always think positive and have fun.
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Come Again?
For non-English speaking students, pronunciation poses as their number one problem. Even if they have advanced grammar and wide lexical resource, the pronunciation becomes a hindrance in communication. The regional accent can sometimes be too hard that it is very difficult to understand. It is a fact that one does not want to listen to somebody who does not have a good pronunciation. So this is the dilemma of most non-English speaking students who want to travel, work or study in the United States of America or other English speaking countries.
But nowadays there are a lot of tools for one to improve his or her pronunciation, some online tutorials or software and some classes make it possible for non-English speaking students to improve their pronunciation.
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Conquer Your Fear
With all the campaigns and debates that happened for months, I can not help but admire the politicians who face hundreds and thousands of people everyday. They speak in front of the public and give a litany of promises and convincing the people to vote for them. Speaking in public is in a way conquering your fear altogether. There are a lot of books and even some seminars that would help people to be confident during public engagement, wherein speaking in front of the people in unavoidable.
First, we have to remember that speaking should not be stressful and one does not need to be perfect to have a successful speech. Practice makes perfect with a little sense of humor then everything will be just fine.
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Tongue-tied
Sometimes no matter how prepared you are and how well you know your piece you still get the jitters, all the butterflies in the stomach, the nerves, whatever you want to call it, but when you are in front of many people it is just uncontrollable sometimes. Some people just get tongue-tied and lose one’s grip. Giving a speech in front of the public, unless if you are already a pro, really has the tendency to make a person uneasy and dread every single moment of it.
But, as the saying goes, practice makes perfect, you just have to do it once, maybe you will make mistakes along the way, but you should not fret instead you go on and then learn from your mistakes, and do it better next time.
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Butterflies in the Stomach
Nothing can be scarier and nerve-wracking than speaking in front of a lot of people. With everybody looking at you and listening to every word you say are things that would really make your palms sweaty, make your knees shake, make your heart beat twice the normal and make you just want to run and hide. Public speaking can really be very intimidating, but if you are prepared and have rehearsed well then everything will be manageable.
A public speaker should be confident and knowledgeable of what he or she is sharing to the audience. One needs to speak clearly and fluently for people to understand and appreciate one’s speech.
