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Sep 27
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Communication Begins Before You Open You...

Fluent American
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Welcome 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. Let's see how these elements of contrast and body language can lead to richer expression.In this video, we're especially paying attention to frames to prepare our listener for what we want to say.#performance #poetry #speaking

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