Consonant sounds may be negatively impacting your speech, causing you to sound choppy, less smooth, or perhaps even less natural. Why is that? Well, it may have to do with where you are placing your tongue or how you are engaging the muscles around your face and mouth. Let's go through some strategies to consider with consonant sounds that can help you sound more natural the next time you speak!More practice with consonants like T: https://youtu.be/X__-ORzyLbcGet a free podcast/mp3/audio version: https://open.spotify.com/show/7f77KK0bWJ8ohC3QWDDwVYMore weaking consonants practice: https://youtu.be/yrGUOvM5VuEWelcome to For Word, the platform dedicated to guiding you towards better spoken performance. We're constantly looking at techniques to add more vocal variety to how we talk by incorporating more softness and firmness to our, furrowing eyebrows, smiling, raising and lowering pitches, adding pauses in order to convey frustration, sadness, joy and nervousness, and considering how to add more breath to everything we say. Let's see how these elements of contrast, body language, and other elements of communication can lead to richer expression.#performance #poetry #speaking

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