Mouth exercises for CLEAR SPEECH
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- Опубліковано 4 січ 2018
- Learn the secret exercises actors use to speak with a clear and crisp voice. Improving your pronunciation and spoken English isn't just about learning theory. You can make yourself more understood by simply training your mouth muscles so that you can produce the sounds of English properly. After all, if you've been speaking another language your whole life, your mouth and tongue are probably trained in a different way, to make the sounds of that language, not English. In this video, I'll go through many exercises you can do to get your mouth used to making the sounds of English clearly. This will improve your accent, clarity, and make you a better English speaker.
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TRANSCRIPT
Hi there and welcome back to engVid. Today's lesson is to make sure that you are understood, because you could learn all the vocabulary in the world, but if you're not being understood by speaking clearly, then there's very little point. So today's lesson is to teach you a few exercises to ensure that your speech is as crisp and clear as possible.
Now, I've got a number of exercises which I've written up on the board which are to help strengthen the muscles in your face and your mouth to help your speech become clear. Now, the words, and sentences, and phrases written up here are not meant to make sense. Okay? So this is not a language lesson. If you're not sure of what a word means, then I suggest look it up in a dictionary, but it may be a word that is not currently used in English, contemporary English. And the other thing I wanted to point out is that it's not just going to be by watching this video that you become clear. I will show you a number of exercises, but if you really want to take it to a next level, you will have to go off and see a voice teacher who will then be able to say to you: "You need to focus on your s sounds", or: "You need to focus on your d sounds", but then you have these exercises to help you. I hope that's clear.
Okay, so I will go through this once slowly, and then I'll do it at full speed. The aim with these articulation exercises is to go nice and slowly so that you're getting each sound correctly, and then to start doing it as fast as you can, because that really works the muscles. Okay?
So, in the top left of your screen you'll see this is an exercises for... An exercise for s sounds, p sounds, c sounds, and to some extent, b and d as well. Ready? Let's go. "To sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark, dock. In a pestilential prison with a life-long lock. Awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp, shock. From a cheap and chippy chopper on a big, black block." Okay. I'll now do this at full speed. "To sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark, dock. In a pestilential prison with a life-long lock. Awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp, shock. From a cheap and chippy chopper on a big, black block." Okay?
And on to our t and d sounds. So, t and d is used with the tongue going up towards what is called the alveolar ridge in your mouth. So you should feel your tongue going up to get this sound correctly. Again, slowly and then at full speed. "In tooting two tutors astute tried to toot a duke on a flute. But duets so gruelling and only in duelling when tutors astute toot the flute." That should say "toot", let's put another t there. Again. "In tooting two tutors astute tried to toot a duke on a flute. But duets so gruelling and only in duelling when tutors astute toot the flute." Weird.
Okay, and on to m, h, and i. "She stood on the balcony..." Okay? So try to get that "l" there, the "l" rising up to the roof of your mouth. "Inexplicably mimicking", so the m sound: "mmm", lips together. Mmm. "Mimicking him hiccupping", so a nice open mouth of "h", "h", for the h sound. "Hiccupping and amicably welcome... Welcoming him home." It's quite hard to get the "ing" there. "Welcoming him home. She stood on the balcony inexplimy-..." Got it wrong. Start again. "She stood on the balcony inexplicably mimicking him hiccupping and amicably welcoming him home." Okay? So you really got to move your mouth to get that... Those sounds correctly.
I've put f, v, and "th" together because you must make sure that there is a difference between your "th" sounds and your f and your v. This is something I learnt after a long... Lots of long, hard practice at drama school, but it... You know, your "th", your tongue has to go up to the top of your mouth, and sort of tick, tick the teeth. "Ff", okay? The f and v sound is more made by... You got your lip there, and air coming out. "Five flippant Frenchmen fly from France for fashions. Five flippant Frenchmen fly from France for fashions".
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Thank you so much for posting this video I am a new denture wearer and this video is helping with learning how to speak with them in
Benjamin, you are....an incredible and wonderful teacher! Keep on going this way. We, students, love you.
🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹
Do you do voice coaching with children?
I'm so sick of people saying huh? when I talk. thank you for these lessons.
Same or saying what?
I can relate 😭
Same
Gets frustrating and after so long I find myself repeating parts of sentences without even realizing it just out of anticipation.
I know what you mean. I live in the UK and people often say to me huh and is so annoying and like Richard say I often repeat myself without being aware of it.
I just came across this video because I think my enunciation has become poor since I barely speak anymore. So when I do speak, it seems like I’m barely opening my mouth. Ugh. Thank you for this video and I’ll be sure to use this everyday!
Yes, Lexi 5 minutes of daily practice makes a big difference.
❤I get it.
me too. i am lonely at 17.
i should probably read aloud (making podcast recordings) and not only off-the-cuff speech -- the two are so different!
A few years ago, I had the wrong assumption that I was a clear speaker.
But I rested on my laurels and I was stunned to hear how awful and lisping and slurring my speech had become, playing back a late night recording. It took months of intensive work to correct, especially off-the-cuff speaking. I did daily podcast recording, both reading aloud and off-the cuff. A couple years later, my speech is reliably cleaned up and no longer a prominent issue BUT I will always try hard and never again rest on my laurels and take clear, clean speech skills for granted.
Same for me .. I basically went mute for a few years and now when im talking I get a lot of “huhs”
I...I think I've developed an accent after the full exercise with Ben!
You have an English accent now lol
Hamin Jung 😂
Still got it Hamin?
Lol
My dream is to have that accent and not the American one
I love UA-cam. The fact that one can find an expert in almost all fields. I have always had a problem with speaking clearly. This is helping, thank you.
Glad to help!
I'm fluent in English and learning other languages in my spare time, but even in my language I have terrible annunciation. And growing up having people constantly have trouble understanding me has made me shell up and made the problem even worse and I barely talk to people anymore.
Well the first step is wanting fix it and finding out what I can do about it. Thank you for doing this series. Hopefully this will help me in the long run. ✊✊
Same experience here. Have you stuck with it and improved over the past year?
hey have u improved after all these years?
Same boat
Have u improved?
has anyone here stuck with it and improved
This is great, I use it 10 minutes a day to articulate words better & it really works!
Excellent - great to hear.
Thank you so much for this. I'm South African, and even though English is my first language, I could not believe how bad I sounded when I heard recordings of my self. I have been practicing this a little every day, and I believe I have gotten a lot better.
Great
Also South African and looking to improve my speech for my videos :) Also realised I talk a bit lazy and soft when I hear my recordings.
omg same, South African gang
same
@@inhle1688 i know. I like the South African accent.
Saw a few lessons online but this is by far the best. To anyone from outside the UK this is what you want to listen to. I’m from London myself and this is the best lesson on UA-cam. I was brought up in a council estate, my mother and father worked hard to get us out and did. I’m doing my best to relearn how to speak and not sound like I have a low level of education
Thank you so much for your kind words. BTW, I never encourage people to change their accent, but I do try to help people to speak clearly.
2:00 S/P/C/B/D
3:00 T/D
3:45 M/H/I
5:20 F
5:34 V
5:49 Th
6:33 Intonation
7:27 D
7:40 K
7:50 L
8:14 J
8:36 R
9:32 The Pirates
Thanks
Amazing, thank you!
@@engvidBenjamin Plz pin it top
Thankyou
Thank you sooo much for the lesson! Benjamin, you’re amazing! Th-sound words were a real treat! Thank you and Happy New year 🎄🕊😀🧚♀️
Great
Thank you! Native English speaker from The US, but I’ve always had difficulty with slurring certain words and not forming certain letters properly. This video was a lot of help already!
Thanks Brian
Me too man, can't help that texas accent
@@engvidBenjamin Hello, Benjamin. I wonder whether you have videos on how connected speech works in British English. UA-cam has many videos on how it works in American English, but there aren't enough videos providing in-depth lessons on how connected speech works in British English. Could you perhaps do something about that? I would benefit enormously from your lessons.
Mr. Ben you are a geniune teacher; you literally know the art of imparting the lessons which you intend to.
I give it a crack...
Benjamin, I really think you're the best so far on Engvid! Thanks a lot!
Thanks. I have my favourites, but better not say!
Thank you for the lesson, Benjamin!
Sir, I am thankful to you and would like to appreciate you for your tremendous efforts!
Not only have I enjoyed the lesson, but I also have learned something amazing. Thanks, Mr. Benjamin.
Great
Thank you, Benjamin, for your lessons!!! They are very interesting, understandable and helpful. And you are very charming, it's pleasure to listen and improve English with you
Great
i never thought i would have to search this up but here i am
It's not a bad thing to work on your voice.
you have absolutely no knowledge how helpful these classes are Benjamin.
Glad to hear. Thank you :)
Quickly for me was the hardest...I ended up saying quiquiquiquiqui.....thanks for these exercises...simply amazing!
No probs
Quickly was easy for me. But I always stumble upon inexplicable and I can't say it right the first time. Maybe my mouth physical structure makes that word difficult for me.
Saying quickly quickly quickly gets the mouth moving.
Thank you Benjamin. You have a new subscriber.
This video is very helpful for me as I am studying to become a teacher and feel I need a lot of work on enunciation. I finish my studies mid year and I assure you this is going to be on my classroom wall 🎉🎉
Thanks again, Benjamin.
God Bless🙏🏾
Absolutely fantastic video! Exceptionally useful for budding journalists. I have just started using these exercises to assist in my journalism course.
Thanks Thomas
Ty ❤ so glad i came across your video,after having a stroke. I have bells palsy on right side as well.
I love your English pronunciation.
Great lesson. I appreciated.
Two things I really learned from this. It sounded like poetry, which had a rhythm to it. So when saying these I kind of sang them and I feel like that definitely helped me! So poetry is good to read aloud and sing scripts lol
Well said!
Thankyou Benjamin, this was the PERFECT video for me to find. You seem great. Subscribed!
That's what I like to hear! I trust you'll find lots of useful content here - I release videos about every three weeks.
Thank you so much, enunciation makes me sound like a whole different person
Fantastic. Thank you for sharing the exercises.
You're welcome.
Thank you Benjamin. You have helped me a lot. Amazing lesson. Much love ❤️
Cool cool
This was fun! Thank you for the lesson 🙏
Any time!
I'm a traumatic brain injury survivor. I was in a coma for 6 weeks, with a survival chance of less than 50%, after I got into my car accident in November 2017. I would say I was very articulate, with a sharp tone, prior to my accident. Upon the initial stages of my recovery, my speech was about 5%, maybe 10%, of pre-accident. Every word came out of my mouth was slurred and slow. I was so disgusted and feeling hopeless, I thought about ending my life. I bumped into this video in May/June of 2018, thought it might potentially help, as I was searching for everything, ANYTHING to recover my speech, to sounds like who I used to be. I would go through this video every morning, before speaking to anyone (everything is fully memorized/automatic now, I would occasionally come back here, for the minor details). Now, when it comes to speech, I am now at 80%-90% of who I used to be.
I am SO BLESSED, AND GRATEFUL to you, Ben, THANK YOU!!!!!!
thank you so much for this!! I will be practicing them
Great
Seriously the best channel for fluent speaking in English, I improved so much for 11 minutes of a video! I'm learning fluent English while waiting for the PS5 reveal! I'm so excited, and I'm about to use my voice on my UA-cam channel, this year is gonna be a lot for me to technology trying to make content and speak better! Thank you, though, what's sad though, I can't speak as QUICKLY QUICKLY QUICKLY QUICKLY QUICKLY than you...D;
Thanks for your kind words.
I like this exercise! I added it to my vocal warm-up favourites for singing! As it gets my tongue moving like a good workout. Love it, thank you, God bless you in Jesus name ♥
I am so glad that I found your channel! I did the exercises, got instant gratification of pronouncing words so much better. This will greatly help in my UA-cam Videos. You are an amazing teacher.
Thank you
Same me my UA-cam never growing due to my English problem🤣🤣🤣
I came across this video, and I'm really glad i did. In my head everything runs smoothly, but as soon as i speak, my pronunciation gets all tangled. I've just spent a little time with your video and immediately noticed a difference 🎉 Thank you soo much!!
Excellent! Keep revisiting the exercises...
Thank you so much for this video. I'm trying to teach my students in China to speak more clearly and to really enunciate their words when giving speeches and doing role plays. One extra benefit I found in this video is learning the rhythm of stressed words in a sentence.
Cool
Thanx for the lesson, really appreciated.
No probs
Thank you so much for sharing
These lessons are great and I’m a native English speaker. Thanks for sharing and I wish you a happy successful 2021.
Same to you!
after practicing for like 5 times for each , it seemed that I chewed a gum for thousands of times.....and my parents said "what the heck are you saying😂"when passing by my bedroom😂😂😂
But it's funny and did good to my pronunciation!
Joanne hahah that’s hilarious!
It felt like rapping
I can imagine 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Well done Joanne. Hope your speech is still nice and clear. :)
Lmao
omg the best teacher ever ! quickly quickly quickly
I have so much fun learning my pronunciation! :)
That's great!
You're amazing, Sir.
Thanks for this good lesson.
Thanks for watching
Thank you for making this video. I didn't realize I mumbled until I listened to my 3,200 word audible story after editing it in Audacity.
Thanks Frederick
Thank you for your work!
No problemo
Enjoyed the lesson, thanks.
:)
Very helpful! Thank you!
Glad to hear that.
This is an excellent video. I use it with my English students and it makes wonders. Thanks a lot for your contribution.
Wonderful!
Great content. Thanks for teaching 👍🏾
Any time
Really amazing exercise
Cheers!
THIS IS AMAZING!
Ben!
I put you as my goal for speech improvement. I’m such a long way from your talents but I believe and I will achieve. Talk to you in a couple months! My road to a more adequate life is here.
Ben!
I have improved tremendously!! You're videos are changing my life, thank you so much
glad to hear you have improved. do you do the video once a day? I have horrible speech cause not using my mouth enough. so hoping doing this video once a day will improve that cause I wanna sing.
@@lazyskull7949 Keep doing this everyday. As each day passes, you will improve on speaking Cleary. Remember repetition is key, and wish you the best of luck on your road to becoming a singer.
@@vincentquitugua9995 Thank you so much, Vincent! so far have been doing it every day and have noticed improvement in my pronunciations.
Good stuff guys
He’s such an engaging person, I even giggled with him when he made a mistake. It’s like he’s really here with me in the room. I wish I could be a teacher like him.
The Q was where I stumbled over the words. Thanks! I'll keep practicing.
Go for it
I have just come across your video... other channels do not compare to yours. I have ASD with associated speech and language complications. This will definitely improve any speeches I will have to complete as an art gallery curator! Thank you Benjamin for this excellent video!
You're very welcome.
This has helped me so much thanks I’ve been practicing for almost 5 years, but now watching this video made me into a public speaker
Great to hear.
That’s wonderful and congratulations!
Thanks a lot brotha
Truly helpful.
Thanks a lot, Sir!
You're welcome
Thanks Ben. It was very much helpful.
Glad to hear it!
Thank you so much!! There’s times that I speak where I simply feel as if the words I say aren’t pronounced or enunciated clearly or right so this helped me so much!!! 🌷🤍
Found your channel by chance .you're a phenomenol teacher. Thanks to UA-cam algorithm for the 1st time.
Welcome aboard!
Bestest teacher i ever found ❤️ thanks for yours all efforts 👍🏻👏
Thank you! 😃
very effective, thank you so much
Cool
Very well done thank you.
No probs
Wonder ful sir
Teacher, you are excellent!!
Thank you
Remarkably great and thanks from India
this is great. thanks so much!
You're very welcome!
You are too good. Oh my goodness 😊
I love your sense of humour. Quickly Quickly Quickly 😅
I’ve had trouble with my R’s my whole life and after Doing this for 5 minutes I could already tell a difference thank u so much
Same. Although I have problems with my TH's.
So I have been practicing my R's and TH's.
Good stuff
thank you a lot for the lesson
You're welcome
I am late but I would like to say a BIG THANK YOU to you Mr. Benjamin because these exercises really worked for my student.
Late for what?
@@engvidBenjamin late to comment…
Thank you very much for your lessons I have practice this excises for lest them a month. I am improving greatly.may GOD bless you.
glad to hear it
Can this help u too speak clearly? I want to speak clearly
@@mohammadhameed6459 ofc
Thanks a lot man... Im gonna save this one
Glad I could help.
Thank you very very very much!
No probs
I love this thanks 👌
Great
Really enjoyed the lesson.
Great
thank you
Wow thank you very much this lesson really helps me
Cool. My pleasure
Love it! Thnks💌
You're welcome 😊
Great lesson this is an excellent exercise for pronunciation
Good
Who knew I would be out of breath after the first one. Wow I really needed this, thank you. Also, I think I naturally pronounce things better the British way than the American way. Thinking my parents picked the wrong English speaking country.
There's no right and wrong in terms of British v American
Thank you soo much
Welcome 😊
Thank you Sir! This is really helpful
Good to hear, Syah.
Thank you for this. This is my go-to tongue twisters especially when I have my interviews. Never got me wrong! 😍🥰
I'm so glad!
Thank you.
You're welcome!
Great video! Thanks!
Glad you liked it!
i like this teacher. thx for the lesson. Very nicely explained and orchestrated pal.
Cheers
What a Great Video! Please consider posting more of these types of videos. Thanks, FR
I will at some point
Thank you Benjamin i loved your video
Great!
Thanks 🎉
You're welcome 😊
This is brilliant. studied drama in Russia and this is exactly how we were taught to speak clearly. Best kept secrets! :) It is incredibly helpful! Thank you!
Glad you liked it!
Good excercise for rap clearly too... Thanks
Indeed!
I’m subscribing I hope you keep up the good work.
Welcome, Michellar! Will certainly endeavour to...
Thank for teaching us,
quickly, quickly, quickly, quickly, quickly, hehe
No probs
Thank you!
You're welcome!
Very good technique
Thank you!
Very nice! Working on annunciating my words.
good
Hello Benjamin and thanks for this helpful videos. I'm a college student in Texas who is afraid to speak in public due to my accent, and mispronunciation of words. I tend to forget how to speak in English when they ask me a question. I wanted to tell you also that you should post a video about speaking English for Mexican speakers.
Thank you Miguel. Suerte!