The person allocated with the correct and competent speech by nature – a big rarity. Not without reason in everything times speaking was considered great art which is given only to the elite. In the modern world it is possible to get rid of pronunciation shortcomings independently as special exercises help to improve diction perfectly. But for a start it is important to define in what the key part of the problem consists.
The diction is a verbiage of mere and sounds which enter organs of articulation of the person. The fact that the speech is clean and smooth, and a rhythm and a timbre distinct and rather loud demonstrates to its good level. The bad mobility of the lower jaw, and inability to widely open a mouth is the main reason of bad diction. At the same time the delivered speech sounds deafly, and words seem crumpled and muffled. If you began to notice that you not always manage to utter separate words and sounds, or you speak too quietly and illegibly, just right to think of development of diction and the speech.
How to train diction?
Exercises for improvement of diction already existed many centuries prior to our time. For example, the famous Roman speaker Mark Tully Cicero before each performance took several pebbles in a mouth and read fragments of various literary works. By the way, and today many leaders on television use this method. The truth pebbles replace with traffic jams from wine or champagne.
However improvement of diction – process systematic also demands more serious efforts, than this reception. For a start it is important to be adjusted for daily work. It will take you no more than 15 minutes a day, but results will not keep themselves waiting. Let's consider some effective exercises for development of diction.
- For good pronunciation of separate syllables and sounds perfectly everyone will be suitable acquaintances of a tongue twister. Neither actors, nor announcers, nor even singers do without them. Everyone is in own way unique and created in such a way that in one quatrain incompatible sounds are combined. Remember at least Sasha who went along the highway or firewood which stands outside where the grass grows. It is enough to have in the arsenal 5-6 tongue twisters with different combinations of sounds partially to get rid of defects of the speech.
- To understand how to improve diction it is possible by means of articulation exercises. If you are waited by an important performance or you want to learn the articulate speech, remember simple exercises for face muscles and a jaw:
- lower the lower jaw down and slowly move it in different directions;
- further without raising a jaw, very slowly and carefully move it vered and back;
- standing directly and holding hands on a breast, bend forward and on an exhalation you say it is long also lingeringly public about and at. It is necessary to do it by extremely deep voice;
- having densely closed a mouth, lick lips at first under top, then under a lower lip. The jaw at the same time should not move;
- also with the closed mouth strain a tip of language and in turn rest it against the left and right cheeks. Do the same with an open mouth;
- with an open mouth stretch lips in a smile and move language to mouth corners to the left and to the right. The jaw and lips has to be not are mobile, and language should not slide on a lower lip;
- also with an open mouth and a smile upon the face lick a language tip an upper lip from one to other corner mouth. You watch that movements were smooth, were not interrupted, and the jaw did not move. Do the same movements with a lower lip, and then lick lips around;
- to carry out the same situation with an open mouth in a smile by language on the upper and lower teeth, to count each of them without moving a jaw;
- with the mouth opened in a smile to put a wide tip of language on alveoluses behind the lower teeth, then to lift for hillocks which behind upper teeth from the inside. The lower jaw and lips have to remain motionless.
These simple recommendations how to work on diction will help you to improve the speech and pronunciation. Considering that the main problems are connected with a physical condition of the lower jaw and face muscles, try to do such exercises daily. But you remember that up to 12 o'clock in the afternoon the vocal chords and facial muscles still are in somnolence. So only continuous exercises will save you from a question how to develop good diction and will help you to become the beautiful speaker.