Eventually, the gains made in conversation practice will diminish. First, there was improvement: more coherent sentences, better delivery, and a reduction of pauses. Then, it felt like there was no improvement: the conversations felt like they sounded the same as…
We rarely ramble for lack of ideas. More likely, it’s because we have a flood of them coming to mind all at once, and not yet a way to get them into words that makes sense. As we attempt to…
Beginners usually think that to get better at communicating, they just have to get better at talking. This makes sense at a basic level. But when they focus only on how they’ll answer, a strange thing happens. Their attention gets…
Start small when practicing clear speaking. Don’t assume it takes a big conversation to build a good speaking habit; it begins by answering basic questions without beating around the bush, explaining something without getting lost in your own explanation, and…