Peter Novak
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 20 Jul
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And I think the goal of every speaker is to try and make what they say as easy as possible to understand for the listener, for your audience, whoever that audience is.
And it really means getting to know your audience as well as possible.
And processing fluency is essentially that.
Processing disfluency is anything that gets in the way of that message being understood.
That could be content, right?
You ramble or you don't have a good structure.
It could be delivery, right?
Things that make it difficult for people to hear and understand.
And that brings us to the linguistic ideas around intelligibility and comprehensibility.
Intelligibility is how much I understand of what you say.
Comprehensibility is how hard I have to work to understand you.
It's the effort that I put into understanding you.
Let me put this into an example.
Let's say you're on a Zoom call, and it's a little glitchy on the other end.
But maybe you understand what the person said, but still there was, I'm losing you a little bit, and so you have to work harder to do it.
That's the difference between intelligibility and comprehensibility.
And the best part about this is that there were major studies done 20 years ago and more that say that people who speak English as a second, third, or fourth language can improve both their intelligibility and their comprehensibility
with no noticeable shift in accent.
And so there are some really interesting things to focus on to help you do that without worrying about what your accent really is.
Well, they want to do both.
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