From the course: Public Speaking for Non-Native English Speakers

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How English speakers listen

How English speakers listen

From the course: Public Speaking for Non-Native English Speakers

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How English speakers listen

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- This course focuses on listener-friendly speech, but what does that mean? How could you make your speech listener-friendly? Before we discuss specific techniques, let's think first about how native English speakers listen. It's important to understand that if English speakers are your primary audience. To give you a sense of how they listen, I'm going to ask you to do a couple of exercises. I'm going to show you four blocks of color and I want you to say the colors out loud when you see them. So for example, you might see pink, blue, black, and yellow. All right. So get ready to say the colors that you see. Are you ready? Go. Good. Let's try it again. Ready? Go. Okay, now I'm going to show you words but I want you to say the colors of those words out loud. So again, you're focusing on the colors. Ready? Go. Good. Now let's do it again. Ready? Go. Great. Okay. Now, one last time, I promise. I'm…

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