Pronunciation and Enunciation, The Two Pillars of Public Speaking

[Music] [Applause] [Music] hi my name is Darren t and I'm the 2016 world champion of public speaking ever wondered how those individuals are able to pronounce and enunciate their words so clearly well pronunciation and enunciation is a skill that needs to be developed over time when you can pronounce and enunciate your words well

enough you'd be able to prevent any form of misunderstanding and be able to connect much better with the audience members let me just share with you a story when I went over to South Korea I met up with a friend and there was this friend of mine who came up to me and

said Darren why come to South Korea inan International Airport at the moment she said that I was thinking oh why come to it's a question and I answered it by saying I'm here for the international negotiation competition I'm here with a group of friends from Singapore when she heard my response she repeated that

again why come to South Korea and I thought okay perhaps I need to slow down maybe that's a bad habit of mine speaking too quickly and what I did was I slowed down and I repeated I'm here for competition and uh with a group of friends from Singapore when she heard my response she repeated the statement

again and this went on on four to five times until she spelled it up for me what she meant to say was welcome w l c m instead of Y come so my friends just from this example alone you can see that a Mis enunciation of a syllable can alter the meaning entirely and that is

why we need to be extremely precise is there one tool that you can help to turbocharge your pronunciation and enunciation I'm here to let you into a secret that perhaps you may not know and that is you can download an application on your mobile phones or you can log on to www.dictionary.com if you