Name: Speak English with Confidence | 5 Easy Tips For A Confident Voice | Be a Confident Public Speaker
Uploaded: 2018-06-26T02:13:52.000Z
Duration: 8 min 51 s

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Do you want people to have confidence in you when you speak?

當你說話的時候，你希望大家對你有信心嗎？

動名詞

Sounding confident can make the world of difference in every aspect of your life,

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在生活中，只要聽起來多一點自信

and I'm going to give you five very quick tips that you can put into place right now

I'm also going to let you into a very special little secret that will change everything.

你可以馬上使用，讓自己聽起來更有自信

my name is Anna English, this is English Like a Native and if you are an English language learner,

開始之前，容我先快速自我介紹

Just be sure to hit that subscribe button and the bell notification button so you don't miss any future lessons.

我是Anna,這是我的頻道English like a native

如果你正在學英文，那你來對地方了

別忘了按下訂閱鍵並且開始自動通知

Now, people will typically speak in one of three ways:

才不會錯過任何新影片或是通知

It's very weak and wispy and doesn't sound very confident.

一般人說話的音調可以簡單分成三種

Someone who speaks with falsetto sounds a little bit like this.

Many people say it's irritating to listen to.

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Falsetto假音，指的是很高的音調

It certainly doesn't instill a feeling of confidence in your listener,

At the bottom end of the range we have fry.

所以如果在演說中使用假音，聽起來就會像是這樣

It's lowing your voice while bringing together the vocal folds very slowly, and it makes a creaking sound.

很多人覺得聽起來不僅沒有自信還相當惱人

這樣的說話方式絕對不會讓聽者感覺你很有自信

Hello, my name is Anna and I am teaching a lesson right now on voice confidence.

Culturally, this has become quite popular recently.

相對於高頻的Falsetto，低沈的Fry

However, vocal fry is not a natural sound within the English language.

指的是壓低喉嚨發出低沈的聲音

It's also being debated as to whether it's healthy for the voice or not.

So, my advice is to avoid both fry and falsetto.

This will certainly make you sound more confident.

我正在教大家如何聽起來更有自信

If you're unsure whether you are using the right voice type or not, then try this little exercise:

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文化使然，這樣的說話方式相當普遍

in the middle of your range, so not pushing the voice up or down, standing up straight, say for me

Now take that feeling and make the sentence "Everybody eats apples",

and feel that same glottal onset: everyone - eats - apples.

所以我的建議是，避免Falsetto假音與Fry低音

請使用發聲方式健康的中等音調Modal

And there, hopefully, you'll've found a nice strong modal voice.

這是讓你聽起來有自信的最佳音調

如果你不確定你是否使用了適當的音調

A lot of people will speak too fast, and some people speak too slow.

But very few people speak at the right pace.

正常地發出聲音，不過高也不過低

Those people who speak too slow tend to add lots of pauses and drag the words out

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站好，然後跟著我說

and they sound like they're not quite sure what they're going to say next.

That doesn't make me feel very confident as a listener.

It also can bore the listener, so get to the point!

However, if you speed through what you're saying, then it sounds like you just really, really want to get it out

because you're not very confident and you just want to leave and you don't really want to speaking right now

so you just talk talk talk talk talk talk talk.

And if you speak too fast, people just shut down.

They stop listening, they just look at you and smile and nod and go "okay".

The best thing to do is to take a deep breath, to have a generally steady pace, adding in a few pauses

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透過這樣的練習

What I tend to do is watch videos of incredible public speakers.

應該可以慢慢找出厚實適當的中等音調

You'll notice that they have a nice steady pace and they allow big pauses

at points where they want to really give emphasis to a point, to allow the audience to think, and absorb.

There are many natives who are quite lazy with their diction.

非常少數人能以適當的語速說話

They miss off sounds, the ends of words, or in the middle of words.

They sometimes miss out complete syllables.

聽起來就好像他們自己都不確定接下來該說什麼

在我聽來當然不覺得他們聽起來很有自信

If you have better articulation and diction then people will just enjoy listening to you.

這樣的說話方式也會讓聽者感到無聊

Spend a little bit of time each day learning a new word or two.

Try to enrich your vocabulary so that you feel empowered and excited

聽起來則像是你很急著想要結束，因為你沒有自信，所以想要快點說完然後離開

about the things that you're saying, rather than using the same old words over and over again.

因為內容雜亂無章所以你只好亂講一通

For example, if you say, uhm, "My business meeting was very good",

如果你說得太快，聽眾會乾脆放空

and you always say that things are "very good",

then why not look up another way of saying "very good"?

Your body language can tell the audience so much.

我自己則是喜歡觀看傑出演說家的影片

So don't think that having a confident voice alone is going to be enough to convince your audience

你會發現他們的演說中，不僅有規律的節奏

that you are confident and that they should believe in you.

並且在他們想要強調的段落都會有明顯的頓點

What you need to make sure is that you're not betraying yourself with any nervous tics

聽眾會因為這些停頓開始思考並留下印象

For example, some people might tap with their hand or tap with their foot.

Some people might scratch a lot when they're nervous.

Some people might wring their hands or constantly wipe their brow.

他們省略句尾、甚至句中該發音的字

So just be aware of what you do physically when you feel nervous and try to keep that under control.

A good confident speaker will have a very open posture: they won't cross their arms,

they won't have their hands in their pockets; they'll be very open and relaxed.

Just... be loose, and chill, and... yeah, relax.

The big secret, the trick, as to how to achieve a confident voice,

to make people confident in you when you speak is:

If you pretend to be confident, if you tell yourself "I am confident, I know what I'm talking about,

they're gonna love me, and I'm just gonna go out there and pretend", something incredible happens.

靈活豐富的詞彙讓你自己能更充分享受表達的愉悅

the audience don't know that you are pretending, so the audience straight away relax,

And because they relax, and because they seem to believe you,

舉個例子來說，關於：我的會議

you naturally start to feel more and more confident.

So, suddenly, it's this big circle of you pretending, the audience believing,