From the author: How a speaker can learn to read)) - new issue of the newsletter. I invite you to discuss! Hello, friends! The New Year holidays are coming to an end, the most persistent among us will still celebrate the old New Year today - and that’s it, back to work! I hope that during the festive feasts you have found many opportunities to hone your oratory skills - fortunately, there are opportunities for this during the New Year holidays plenty. Say a beautiful toast, work as Father Frost and the Snow Maiden, present gifts in an interesting way, organize people for all sorts of quiz competitions, read an appeal to the people - you never know... By the way, most of the listed genres we are, one way or another, already on the mailing pages considered - except for one thing. We’ll talk about it today. You, of course, remember that I always warned you against giving speeches in the form of reading a speech “by piece of paper.” Indeed, reading (as well as telling a text learned by heart) usually seriously spoils the impression of speech. The speaker, looking at the text, breaks contact with the audience, has poor control of the tempo, loses intonation, and does not manage the energy. Listening to such a speech is most often terribly boring. But what can we do if circumstances leave us no choice and it is absolutely impossible to avoid reading? After all, there are all sorts of official receptions and other protocol ceremonies where the live style, unfortunately, is still unacceptable. Accept the inevitability, make the audience sad and harm your own image? Not at all. Let's leave this option to the gray crowd of non-professionals - so that it can again shine brightly against their depressing background)). If you know a few simple rules, you can make reading a very exciting process for the audience. So - today we are learning to read)). How to read the text correctly.1. Since maintaining eye contact with the audience is the most important condition for a successful speech, we cannot afford to simply read out loud, as we usually do while looking at the text. You must first read a certain number of words “to yourself” - and then raise your eyes to the audience and say what you read. And so constantly: absorbed - given away. When we look at a piece of paper, we remain silent; when we speak, we look into the audience. Accordingly, it is important to learn how to read pieces of text of suitable length. Very short ones will force you to “dive” into the sheet too often, and too long ones will be difficult to remember verbatim, and contact during reading, again, will be interrupted for a long time - it’s difficult to restore it every time. As you may have guessed, regular practice will help you choose the right piece of the desired length over and over again.2. A person usually reads faster than he simply speaks. This means that a speaker reading a speech in the usual way involuntarily speaks faster and faster - to the detriment of articulation, volume, semantic pauses and intonation. And the further, the worse it turns out, the longer the poor fellow “performs,” the faster and more incomprehensibly he jabbers. Loss of control over the tempo can be avoided if you deliberately restrain it, read deliberately slowly, with accentuated semantic pauses. By the way, following the previous rule helps to take breaks regularly.3. One of the main disadvantages of speeches “on a piece of paper” is the poverty of intonation and terrifying monotony. The speaker, gradually accelerating, turns himself into a sound-producing apparatus (I think now this is called a “reader”) - it is almost impossible to listen to such a voice and not fall asleep)). Accordingly, it is extremely important when reading from a sheet to maintain lively natural intonations in speech, to practice this skill in practice.4. Another big problem for the “non-artistic reader” is that when he is immersed in reading, he turns into a motionless, monotonously droning “talking head” (especially if he hides everything else behind the podium), completely forgetting about gesticulation. And he still believes that he can be interesting to the audience? Really interesting talking heads for the viewer can be found in our time, perhaps, only in one place - in the series about Smesharikov)). Colleagues! No one forbids us even while reading a speech with.