Speaking
Questions
1. How much do you speak during the day?
2. Do you need to speak a lot in your work?
3. Do you talk a lot with your friends?
4. How often do you speak with your family?
5. Are you comfortable speaking in public?
6. How important is speaking well to you?
7. Would you like to speak more or less?
8. What do you like speaking about the most?
Videos
When your job hinges on how well you talk to people, you learn a lot about how to have conversations — and that most of us don’t converse very well. Celeste Headlee has worked as a radio host for decades, and she
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knows the ingredients of a great conversation: Honesty, brevity, clarity and a healthy amount of listening. In this insightful talk, she shares 10 useful rules for having better conversations. “Go out, talk to people, listen to people,” she says. “And, most importantly, be prepared to be amazed.”
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Category: Psychology
The development of agriculture was a huge game changer for human beings and it may have even changed the way we speak.
Category: Education & Language | History & Culture
Pop quiz. Try pronouncing the following. Ready? Go. Elucubrate. Smaragdine. Scherenschnitte. Head scratchers, huh? Not for Jacques Bailly. As the official pronouncer of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, he can tackle
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any word thrown at him. He started his wordsmith career as the 1980 spelling bee champion. These days, Jacques feels the heat of etymological battle from the other side of the mic.
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Category: Education & Language
One of the reasons many of us find social encounters difficult is that they force into that particular conversational byway called small-talk – where we have to pay a lot of attention to the weather and the upcoming holidays.
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But what is small talk, why does it exist and how can we learn to navigate it more fruitfully?
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Category: Psychology
Monkeys are our closest biological relatives, and they can’t speak. But parrots don’t seem to have a problem at all.
Category: Education & Language | Nature & Environment