Joined: 11 Aug 2023 Gender: Male Posts: 77 Location: Arizona
19 Aug 2023, 1:08 pm
I do have problems with reading aloud. I can’t speak too fast lest I stutter with my words. I also have difficulty with the actual tone and pitch of my voice. My voice may be monotone or over expressive; it’s inconsistent. I can only speak up to normal volume but if I try to be louder, my voice will become more childlike, and I will sound like I have a southern accent (which I don’t actually have in my usual speech).
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Joined: 26 Aug 2010 Age: 70 Gender: Male Posts: 35,189 Location: temperate zone
19 Aug 2023, 1:28 pm
MaKin wrote:
I think most people have that same problem, unless they're practiced at reading aloud, like politicians, school teachers and people in the media are.
Exactly. Its an art form unto itself. Instructors will assign you to practice by yourself ...reading prose and poetry texts ...to get good at. You have to scan ahead a little to know where the sentence ends, and which word to put the emphasis on, on so forth.
Joined: 15 Sep 2008 Age: 72 Gender: Male Posts: 14,534
20 Aug 2023, 9:35 am
No, I was better at reading aloud than most of my class when I was about 6 or 7 years old. Dad taught me to read a bit before I started school, so I was ahead of the pack.
How well I do in reading aloud as an adult depends on the material and the required reading speed. If it's got words in it that I've never pronounced before, or the syntax is of the kind where you don't know how to do the intonation till you've read to the end of the sentence, then I have to slow down a bit. But if I can read at the speed that comes naturally to me, I do fairly well. It's definitely a knack that you don't get without practice.
19 Aug 2023, 1:08 pm
