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fundamental to effective communication is being heard i'm matt abrahams

and i teach strategic communication at stanford graduate school of business

welcome to this quick thinks episode of think fast talk smart the podcast

i'm often asked how can i make sure my voice is heard people aren't wondering how do they insert

it into a conversation they literally want to understand how can my volume go up

so today i'd like to have a conversation about volume

and you can't have a conversation about volume without talking about breath then we'll talk about how to expand your volume, build vocal stamina.

And finally, we'll conclude to talk about how microphones can help you communicate better.

Your voice is a wind instrument.

The more you do with it, the more your volume and voice can be affected by it.

We need to think about how we breathe to help us project our voice.

Many of us, when we get nervous or are uncertain, we breathe shallow and tight in the upper chest.

We also breathe very quickly.

This changes our ability to project our voice.

You have to be able to fill your lower abdomen to support your voice fully.

Something you can do in the privacy of your own space

to figure out where you're breathing from is to put one palm on your upper chest and one on your lower abdomen.

If I'm speaking from my upper chest as I'm doing now, I feel vibration and a little movement here and nothing in my lower abdomen.

But when I take a deeper breath and speak lower and sometimes slower,

I actually feel a lot of movement here and a little vibration in my upper chest.

So to help build that awareness of where your breath is coming from, give yourself a sensory experience of it.

Another way to help you learn about your breathing is to read out loud.

Reading out loud is a proxy for speaking out loud

and the benefit of reading out loud is you can focus on your breathing

because the words are presented right in front of you.

I don't care what you read, it can be something for work, for pleasure, it can be email, a magazine, does not matter.

By reading out loud and really paying attention to where the breath is coming from, you can gain more control of it.

And the more control you have over it, the better able you are to project.

So lower, slower breathing gives you more vocal support so you can project your voice.

Now there's a really interesting technique that I learned from an acting professional.

While I'm not an actor myself, I really like this technique.

Rather than just thinking about projecting your voice forward, actually pick a place where you want to put your voice.

So imagine you're in a conference room sitting around a large table, you're at one end, and there are people far away from you.

Instead of just broadcasting out, focus your voice in front of the person who's sitting farthest from you.

In doing so, it changes the structure of your body.

You'll tend to open up more.

You'll breathe more deeply, and you'll be able to position your voice so it'll be louder.

So it's not about broadcasting it out.

It's about focusing on placing your voice in a certain space.

I alluded to body posture just a moment ago, and this is really important.

You want to open your body as much as possible.

Many of us, especially when we're on virtual calls, we hunch over and close our body off.

That reduces the oxygen.

In fact, many actors and actresses or professional speakers, before they go out on stage and project,

they'll work on stretching their body and opening it up.

That's a great place for us to start.

Once we have the mechanics and the breath, we have to work on stamina.

Very few of you would wake up one morning and say, I'm going to go run a marathon and just start running.

If you wanted to run a marathon, you'd train first.

And the same thing is true with your voice and vocal projection.

If you're going to speak for 5, 10, 30, 60 minutes, you should build vocal stamina.

Because most Most of us can start out strong, but can we sustain it so we can continue to project our voice?

Best way to do this, again, is reading out loud.

Reading out loud to build vocal stamina is like running on a treadmill to build your stamina for running a road race.

So if you know you have a 30 minute presentation that you have to give in a week or two,

you should start reading out loud for five

or 10 minutes a day to build that stamina so you can project your voice all the way through.

And you wanna make sure that you have the energy at the end of your communication as well as at the beginning.

Many of us start energetic and excited.

And because we're speaking for so long, we lose our wind.

We lose that energy.

By building vocal stamina, you'll continue to have the energy and be able to project your voice.

Now, fortunately, we live in a world where there's technology that can help us project our voice.

Microphones are very useful for helping you not just record what you're saying, but to make sure your voice is projected.

Now, we have to use microphones appropriately.

The first type of mic I want to talk about is a lavalier mic, a lav.

This is a little microphone that usually gets clipped right under your chin.

Now, it tends to have a cord and a battery pack.

You have to be careful and make sure that you're prepared for that because often you'll drop the cord through your shirt,

and you need to have a place to clip the battery pack or a pocket to put it in.

I've worked with some speakers who came dressed in a way that did not allow for those to easily be done.

When it comes to a lavalier you want to make sure it's about six inches away from your mouth

and because it is fixed you want to make sure that your head stays in the same position.

So if the lavalier is here

and I turn over here notice I've increased the distance

and unless you have somebody working the sound board that is controlling the volume your voice will get quieter.

So if you have a lavalier mic, you simply turn your whole body so you keep the orientation the same.

So make sure you have something to clip it to, both the mic and the pack,

and try to keep your head in relationship to the mic the same so your volume stays the same.

Now sometimes when you're speaking, you actually have a microphone.

Handheld mic needs to be kept at the same distance from your mouth

so that the volume stays the same and you make the life of the soundboard operator much easier.

So lightly hold the mic.

Some people clutch it because they're so nervous.

Lightly hold the mic.

Put your elbow against your body.

This is the only time I ever encourage people to connect the elbow to the body.

Usually when gesturing, we want it away.

And I gesture with the other hand and notice I'm keeping the distance about six inches the same.

Now if I want to switch hands, which is a good thing because this arm might get tired, I come to the mic,

keep the mic in the same place, and gesture with the other hand.

Some mics have cables, and you need to be careful with where the cable is.

I saw a speaker once trip over the cable, embarrassing for them, and dangerous.

So if you're using a handheld mic, hold it in place, gesture with the other hand, and again, come back to it.

These are all techniques that will help you project your voice and make sure your point is heard.

We want to think about body posture and breathing.

We want to think about placing our voice.

We want to make sure we build that vocal stamina to support our energy and volume throughout what we say.

And finally, we want to leverage microphones appropriately to help us make sure we're heard.

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Thank you for joining me for this

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Quick Thinks episode of Think Fast, Talk Smart, the podcast.

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To learn more about voice, please listen to episode 262 with Patsy Rodenberg.

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Этот урок разговорной практики построен на видео «Your Voice Is a Wind Instrument». Чаще всего повторяются слова: voice, mic, project, volume, stamina. В этом видео 112 предложений и 1566 слов для шедоуинга. Речь длится 9:20. Говорящий говорит в естественном темпе, около 168 слов в минуту, близком к повседневной речи. 84% слов входят в 3000 самых частых слов английского языка; остальные стоит разобрать перед занятием.

Ключевая лексика этого видео

15 слов из видео, которые стоит выучить, с произношением и значением:

Слово	Произношение	Значение
breathe глагол	/bɹiːð/	дыша́ть
vocal прилагательное	/ˈvoʊ̯.kəl/	вока́льный, голосово́й
microphone существительное	/ˈmaɪ.kɹəˌfəʊn/	микрофо́н
podcast существительное	/ˈpɑdˌkæst/	подка́ст
gesture существительное	/ˈd͡ʒɛs.t͡ʃɚ/	жест, телодвиже́ние
technique существительное	/tɛkˈniːk/	те́хника
clip существительное	/klɪp/	скре́пка, зажи́м
abdomen существительное	/ˈæb.də.mən/	живо́т
broadcast существительное	/ˈbɹɔːd(ˌ)kɑːst/	переда́ча, трансля́ция
marathon существительное	/ˈmæɹəθən/	марафо́н
cord существительное	/ˈkoɹd/	верёвка, шнур
lightly наречие	/ˈlaɪtli/	легко́, слегка́
elbow существительное	/ˈɛlboʊ̯/	ло́коть
vibration существительное	/vaɪˈbɹeɪʃən/	вибра́ция
pocket существительное	/ˈpɑ.kɪt/	карма́н, карма́шек

Фразовые глаголы, которые вы услышите

Слово	Произношение	Значение
check out глагол		проверя́ть, прове́рить
figure out глагол		разбира́ться, разобра́ться
go up глагол		поднима́ться, подня́ться
turn over глагол		перевора́чивать, переверну́ть
wake up глагол	/ˌweɪk ˈʌp/	просыпа́ться, просну́ться

Грамматика в этом видео

Конструкции, которые говорящий использует чаще всего, с точными словами из видео:

Конструкция	В видео
Пассивный залог be + причастие прошедшего времени — важно, что происходит, а не кто это делает	being heard · is heard · can be affected
Present Perfect have/has + причастие прошедшего времени — прошлое действие, важное сейчас	I've worked · I've increased

Произношение, на которое стоит обратить внимание

Говорящий использует 37 сокращённых и редуцированных форм, например you're, I'm, you'll. Произносите их коротко, так, как слышите.

Звуки «th»: breathe /bɹiːð/, marathon /ˈmæɹəθən/
Звуки «sh» и «zh»: vibration /vaɪˈbɹeɪʃən/, presentation /ˌpɹɛzn̩ˈteɪʃn̩/, orientation /ˌɔː.ɹi.ənˈteɪ.ʃən/, shallow /ˈʃæloʊ/, projection /pɹəˈd͡ʒɛkʃən/
Длинные слова — следите за ударением: fundamental /ˌfʌn.dəˈmɛn.təl/, operator /ˈɑpəˌɹeɪtɚ/, communicate /kəˈmjuːnɪkeɪt/, orientation /ˌɔː.ɹi.ənˈteɪ.ʃən/, fortunately /ˈfɔɹ.t͡ʃə.nɪt.li/

Звуки, трудные для русскоязычных:

/w/ — губы округлены, это не /v/: awareness /əˈwɛɹ.nəs/, quest /kwɛst/, wherever /(h)wɛɹˈɛvɚ/
/h/ — лёгкий выдох, а не русское «х»: wherever /(h)wɛɹˈɛvɚ/, hunch /hʌnt͡ʃ/
Звонкие согласные в конце слова — не оглушайте их: cord /ˈkoɹd/, encourage /ɪnˈkʌɹ.ɪd͡ʒ/, expand /ɪkˈspænd/, dive /daɪv/, subscribe /səbˈskɹaɪb/

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Запишите себя и сравните с оригиналом, обращая внимание на такие слова, как breathe, vocal, microphone.

Что такое техника Shadowing?

Shadowing — это научно обоснованная техника изучения языка, изначально разработанная для подготовки профессиональных переводчиков и популяризированная полиглотом доктором Александром Аргуэльесом. Метод прост, но эффективен: вы слушаете аудио на английском от носителей языка и немедленно повторяете вслух — как тень, следующая за говорящим с задержкой в 1–2 секунды. В отличие от пассивного прослушивания или грамматических упражнений, Shadowing заставляет мозг и мышцы рта одновременно обрабатывать и воспроизводить реальные речевые паттерны. Исследования показывают, что это значительно улучшает точность произношения, интонацию, ритм, связную речь, понимание на слух и беглость речи — что делает его одним из самых эффективных методов для подготовки к IELTS Speaking и реального общения на английском.

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Ключевая лексика этого видео

Фразовые глаголы, которые вы услышите

Грамматика в этом видео

Произношение, на которое стоит обратить внимание

Как заниматься с этим видео

Что такое техника Shadowing?