Speaking Skills of Tour Guides * Speaking in front of a group is considered the most common fear. Qualities of a Successful Speaker * Enthusiastic * Natural * Comfortable with their audience‚ their topic and themselves * A spontaneous relaxed style draws listeners while an unenthusiastic or tense style drives them away “Nervous speakers make people nervous” How does a person overcome the fear of speaking before a group? Speaking at ease requires feeling at ease. * Preparation
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It was warm‚ loud‚ and smelled of Italian food and garlic. Every employee seemed extremely busy and that’s when I took a closer look at one particular server. This server had two people she was waiting on that were from a different country. Their accent was thick and the server was having a hard time understanding. It was difficult reading her nonverbal cues‚ but once I started relating her cues to that of the examples in the textbook it was easier to understand. The first thing I started
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Long before any white man ever set foot in this hemisphere‚ there were fully functional and highly developed societies here. These civilizations were sophisticated‚ could even be considered more advanced than the European nations at the time. While the rest of the Eastern world was in the dark Middle Ages‚ the people here were flourishing. The Aztecs were the Native American people who dominated northern México at the time of the Spanish conquest led by Hernan CORTES in the early 16th century.
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LECTURE 1 1. History of phonetic development 2. Subject of Phonetics 3. Branches of Phonetics 4. Connection of Phonetics with other sciences 5. Methods and devices of phonetic investigation 1. History of phonetic development The “birthplace” of phonetics is considered to be Ancient India. The idea of studying sounds was brought about by the need to understand Veda (1500 BC)‚ i.e. sacred songs (brahmans) sang during religious ceremonies. The principal question for the
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placito: up to the performer * a cappella: in the manner of singing in a chapel; i.e.‚ without instrumental accompaniment * accarezzévole: expressive and caressing * accelerando‚ accel.: accelerating; gradually increasing the tempo * accent: emphasize‚ make a particular part more important * accentato/accentuato: accented; with emphasis * acceso: ignited‚ on fire * acciaccato: broken down‚ crushed; the sounding of the notes of a chord not quite simultaneously‚ but from bottom
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always be one who takes on the dominant role through Voice. It’s their choice of what they say and how they say it that gives insight into their character. Some characteristics of voice that we take into account are register‚ range‚ accent‚ tone‚ volume and pitch. In a movie such as “Rain Man”‚ we hear the timbre of Dustin Hoffman’s flat‚ autistic monotone. In the play‚ Pygmalion‚ we are asked to provide for ourselves the sound of Eliza Doolittle’s cockney twang. Through the study of ”Pygmalion”
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where everyone is Arabic‚ Aladdin still possessed more “white” features than that of the villain‚ Jafar. Aladdin and Jafar both possess Arabian features such as their large eyes but the difference between the two is that Jafar has a more authentic accent than Aladdin’s; the voice of the American actor‚ Scott
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sample of the word ’hey’ that has a delay on it and pans across the stereo spectrum. In bar 29 there is a reversed vocal line to lead up to the actual vocals that come in ‚In bar 30. the voice is rough and gritty and dirty and has a heavy london accent‚ this just gives a dirty edge to the song and now adds a punk element to the song. And in the 32nd bar a new guitar part come in ‚similar to the first guitar part in texture and effects that comes in every 2 bars under the vocal
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public speakers stories on fear of public speaking and how they essentially overcame it‚ I told myself you can do it. The day of presenting my speech finally arrived and I volunteered to be the one to go first in class. I was more apprehensive about my accent than anything else. Would the audience understand me clearly? Would they be bored with what I have to say about my chosen topic? Would I captive them and would I make a good impression? Well‚ I gave the speech without a hitch. It was helpful to
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loud! Also‚ throughout the entire live version there are a lot more accents put into the music. The guitar does have two solos during the recorded version‚ but they are completely different once being compared to the two live version solos. The last solo‚ the guitarist is punching and leaning into a lot of the notes to give a greater deal of emphasis on his performance and his skill level. MELODY There isn’t a wide range of pitch in either versions of this song. During the live version though‚ the
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