How to increase the diction of speech. An effective exercise to improve diction

According to experts, up to 30% of people suffer from diction disorders. And, apparently, most of them get a job at airports to announce flight delays by radio. Even if you are not going to join them, it will not hurt you to learn to legibly order dishes with difficult names in a restaurant or to surprise those around you with a lightning-fast Estonian tongue twister.

Geh, Slavs!

“The easiest pronunciation defect is gekanye,” says Alexander Kabin, director and speech teacher at the Interlude theater association. This fricative "g" can be picked up in mature age... After a two-week business trip to Eastern Ukraine or the south of Russia, the owner of good phonemic hearing, after talking to the locals, will imperceptibly begin to talk, like Nastya Zavorotnyuk in the image of a wonderful nanny. However, after returning home, the accent will fade in a couple of weeks and will not appear until the next business trip. If your "ghe" is innate, to acquire the non-explosive sound of the fourth letter of the alphabet, practice pronouncing phrases with an abundance of "g". Speak them slowly, and at the sound "g" pause at first to emphasize.

Read with expression

The tycoon Yegor was sunbathing on the mountain, a magnet fell on the tycoon Yegor.
The ingenious heterosexual Goga loves the geisha Galya dearly.
Where is Gena the guest worker? This reptile dries herbarium!

Tracer bullet

In addition to the surname Zinbelshukher, there are many other, more valid reasons not to pronounce the sound "r". This sound is the most difficult to articulate. There are 30 variants of its distortions. The most frequent ones are the absence of "r" ("box of pesevatives") and the throat pronunciation of the sound, called burr. “Sometimes the cause of the defect is a shortened hypoglossal ligament, which limits tongue lift. This requires a little intervention from the surgeon, ”notes Alexander. But more often the whole thing is in the habit established from childhood and the weakness of the muscles of the tongue.

To develop your tongue, first spread it on your lower lip, while it is not superfluous to say "five-five-five". (Sounds silly, but what to do?) When your tongue gets used to lying relaxed, teach it to cover your upper lip. The front edge of the tongue should cover the entire upper lip from corner to corner of the mouth. (For especially weak muscles, first help the tongue to hold on top with a teaspoon.) Making sure that the tongue remains as wide, push it behind the upper teeth. Now practice saying "d-d-d" by hitting the front edge of your raised tongue against the inner surface of your upper front teeth. After a few hours of these exercises, alternating with tongue twisters, the sound "r" will begin to break through.

Read with expression

Tell us about tongue twisters. What tongue twisters? About tongue twisters, about tongue twisters, about my tongue twisters!
Our Tanya is crying loudly, dropped a ball into the river. He put the Greek hand in the river, the ball into the Greek's hand - dzap!
Grass in the yard, firewood on the grass. Don't chop wood, but drank wood.

What is "osen"?

Check if your bite is correct, if all your teeth are in place, and if your tongue is pierced. If everything is in order, your weak tongue is to blame for your lisping speech.

"Sometimes for language development and recovery correct pronunciation consonants are often read out loud enough, ”says Alexander. In between reading, do two simple exercises.

1 . Stretch the corners of your mouth in a strained smile so that your teeth are visible, and blow on the tip of your tongue for the sibilant noise typical of the "s" sound.

2. Practice pronouncing the syllable sa. In this case, the sound "c" must be filtered through teeth, and on the sound "a" open your mouth. If you still fail to master the correct pronunciation, go to Poland. You won't feel flawed there: the Polish language abounds in sibilants.

Read with expression

Masha was walking along the highway and was hit by a bus.
Tell me about the sausages! What kind of sausages? Maybe about shopping? Oh, yes, about shopping.
Soviet specialists are in a hurry to help specialists from the socialist countries.

Obvious but indistinct

Put a spoonful of porridge in your mouth and say: "Leave me alone, you monsters." Now say the same without the porridge. No difference? All clear. You casually pronounce sounds, especially consonants. But the importance of consonants is higher than vowels, because they carry more information, performing a meaningful function.

If you are used to saying “check” instead of “man”, “nomad” instead of “in short” and “DNA” instead of “deoxyribonucleic acid”, do not be offended by experts who call such speech illegible, unaesthetic and inexpressive *.

Of course, it is difficult to deny yourself the pleasure of telling jokes while chewing on a barbecue, but the rest of the time, try to speak more clearly. To develop this skill, Alexander advises you to chant poetry, beating a clear rhythm with your hand on the table or with a hammer on the battery.

Start collecting words with a "bouquet" of consonants (awake, agency, postskRiptum, paratvznos), as well as phrases from monosyllabic words, the pronunciation of which requires muscular tension ("Where the table was of food, there is a coffin"). When you have enough words and phrases, make a little story out of them and send them to us. Poel?

Read with expression

The overly alarmed center forward is about to snore.
The cannon transplant smacked of amateurism.
Everyone loved Prov, but fell into a trance.
And you Brute?

How to improve diction? This problem is very relevant today for many people. After all, a person who is naturally capable of talking beautifully is a great rarity. That is why, for centuries, oratorical talent was considered the highest art, which was believed to be able to be mastered only by a select few. Fortunately, today, eliminate various defects speech is easy enough. Special exercises can help with this.

However, in order to solve the problem as efficiently as possible, you first need to understand its very essence. Diction is the pronunciation of syllables and letters by the speech organs of a person. Diction is considered good if it is clean and smooth, if the words are pronounced clearly and at the same time loudly enough.
Among the main reasons for problems with diction are poor jaw mobility and the inability to open the mouth normally. As a result, a person's speech begins to sound dull, crumpled and unintelligible. Pay attention to how you speak. Every time you, it turns out, pronounce the syllables and letters correctly, and does your speech always sound loud and clear? If you find yourself in any problem - take care of yourself urgently!

How to improve diction with training?

Exercises to improve diction were invented many years ago. Even the Roman orator Cicero always put 3-4 small round stones in his mouth before speaking in public and read excerpts of texts. By the way, this method is still used today by many speech therapists, although today stones are usually replaced wine corks or walnuts.
In addition, there are also a number of modern exercises that can improve diction:

Open your mouth and start moving your lower jaw left and right. Try to keep your head as still as possible. After 2-3 minutes, try moving your jaw back and forth. Continue doing the exercise for another 2 minutes.
Smile as wide as possible. Trace the upper and lower teeth with your tongue. Count each in this way, while twisting the jaw is not recommended.
Smile again. After that, run the edge of your tongue along the inner surface of your upper lip. Repeat with the lower lip. Finally, slide your tongue along the border of the lips in a circle. Try to keep the jaw as still as possible.
Smile while showing your teeth. Then move your tongue from one side of your mouth to the other. Try to keep your facial muscles from moving, keeping your tongue between your upper and lower lips and not touching your lower jaw.
Now stand on your feet, and mark your hands on your chest. Gradually tilt your torso forward and pronounce the sound "O" and "U". Gradually try to make your voice lower and lower.

Basic rules for improving the quality of spoken language

Observing these simple rules, after a few weeks you will be able to improve your diction and speech. In order to achieve maximum results in the shortest possible time, try to exercise at least 15 minutes every day. At the same time, keep in mind that the muscles of the face still continue to "sleep" until noon. By working on yourself, you can also become a great speaker.

School of Yuri Okunev

Today I happened to be stuck in an elevator with a very interesting young man. Rather, the fact that this is an outstanding personality of enormous proportions, it turned out quite by accident, and then only after a few hours. This is perhaps the only time in my life when I was glad that our valiant emergency services you have to wait a very long time. My unfortunate neighbor turned out to be an inconspicuous young man, with a trembling voice and an uncertainly cautious style of communication, and in order to understand what he was talking about, I had to listen attentively and make additional efforts.

We may have spent hours of waiting in silence, if my gaze had not fallen on the book and the title page of a voluminous scientific work, which he held in his hands. The book - a collection of poems - with his photograph and surname, and scientific work- Ph.D. thesis in nuclear physics by the same author.

After talking a little to my casual acquaintance, I found out that he was a talented person, winner of All-Russian Olympiads, inventor of innovative methods in science, and also a poet with interesting style and an unusual written syllable. But the trouble is that it is almost impossible to understand this, since he simply has a terrible command of his voice and does not know how to express himself at all.

While communicating with him, I had an irresistible desire to help, to explain how to develop diction and clarity of speech, to make speech understandable and pleasant to the ear. It's not difficult at all!

My tongue is my friend

It is said that the voice most clearly conveys our personality. There are no people in the world with two identical voices. It is by ear by intonation that we are in to a greater extent we can understand in what mood a person is, assume what is in his soul and what he is feeling now.

Shyness in voice usually indicates insecurity, which makes a person seem weak and, for example, less qualified than he really is. Conversely, the ability to control yourself and your voice allows you to create the necessary impression, achieve your goals, influence people and promote your beliefs and ideals.

As is often the case, many people think that diction and clear speech, the talent of an orator is inherent in people from birth - either you have been given it or not. Give it up! This is utter nonsense. As with other skills, everything can be achieved by hard work above oneself. There are effective exercises for developing diction. We will talk about them. By exercising for 15 minutes daily, you will get noticeable results in just seven days.

Exercise 1. Cork.

How can wine improve your articulation? It's very simple! You take the cork from the bottle (preferably at home the next day or after some time), clamp it with your teeth and begin to pronounce phrases. To get started, take any piece of text that you like, it can also be a poem, and try to read it. In the beginning it will be very difficult, as the muscles of the articulatory apparatus overcome the resistance created by the plug.

Then take it out and say the same thing. Once "free", the muscles begin to work more harmoniously, and the sounds are clear. Also, a very striking effect, if practiced regularly, is given by pronouncing the so-called explosive consonants with a cork in the mouth.

Practice on the following groups of sounds:

pe-pe-pe, be-be-be, me-me-me;
te-te-te, de-de-de;
ke-ke-ke, ge-ge-ge.

The first group trains the muscles of the lips, the second develops the tip of the tongue, and the third strengthens its root. Do these exercises regularly for 5 minutes, and after a week you will find good results.

Exercise 2. Ligurian traffic controller

Nothing trains diction like complex tongue twisters. Kind people to our time, a lot of them have been invented and of all kinds for working out a wide variety of problem areas... One of the most famous is called Liguria. This is a whole coherent text from well-known tongue twisters, which can quickly bring diction to the level of the speaker, both in a child and in adults. Try to read it quickly and clearly. You will definitely like it.

On Thursday the 4th, at 4 and a quarter o'clock, the Ligurian traffic controller was regulating in Liguria, but 33 ships maneuvered, maneuvered, and did not catch it, and then the protocol about the protocol was recorded, like the interviewer, the interviewed Ligurian traffic controller, spokenly, but not cleanly he reported, and so reported about the soggy weather that so that the incident did not become a contender for a judicial precedent, the Ligurian traffic controller acclimatized in unconstitutional Constantinople, where the crested laughs laughed with laughter and shouted to the Turk, who had a pipe, which is better than a pipe: a peak, you'd better buy a peak, or a bombardier from Brandeburg will come and bombard him with bombs for the fact that someone black-snouted his half-yard with a snout, dug and undermined; but in fact the Turk was not in business, and Klara-krala at that time was sneaking to the chest while Karl was stealing corals from Klara, for which Klara stole a clarinet from Karl, and then these thieves stole firewood in the courtyard of the tarn widow Varvara 2; but it’s not a sin — not laughter — not to be put into a nut: about Klara and Karl in the darkness, all the crayfish were noisy in the fight — that was not the time for the bombardier, the thieves, but also not for the tar widow, and not for the tar children; but the angry widow removed the firewood to the shed: once the firewood, 2 firewood, 3 firewood - all the firewood did not fit, and 2 lumberjacks, 2 woodcutters-woodcutters for the sentimental Varvara pushed the firewood out into the width of the yard back to the woodyard, where the heron was stunted, the heron dried up, the heron died; the heron's chicken clung tenaciously to the chain; the good fellow against the sheep, and against the good fellow the sheep itself, which Senya carries hay in the sleigh, then Senka carries Sonya with Sanka on a sled: the sleigh - gallop, Senka - in the side, Sonya - in the forehead, everything - in a snowdrift, and from there only with a hat of cones knocked down, then Sasha went along the highway, Sasha found a sachet on the highway; Sonya - Sashka's girlfriend walked along the highway and sucked drying, and besides, Sonya-turntable also had 3 cheesecakes in her mouth - exactly in a honey cake, but she had no time for a honey cake - Sonya and with cheesecakes in her mouth the sexton will overdid it, - she will overdone: it buzzes like ground beetle, buzzing, but spinning: Frol was at Frol's - she lied to Frol about the Lavra, she will go to the Lavra at Frol Lavra if she will lie that - the sergeant with the sergeant, the captain with the captain, the snake is shrunken, the hedgehog has a hedgehog, and a high-ranking guest took away from him a cane, and soon again 5 guys ate 5 honey mushrooms with a half-quarter of four lentils without a wormhole, and 1666 pies with cottage cheese from whey from yogurt, - about everything about that, the cola sounded the bells ringing, so much so that even Konstantin is a Salzburg unpromising from - under the armored personnel carrier stated: just as all the bells cannot be re-peeled, not perekolokolovat, so all tongue twisters can not be renegotiated, not renegotiated; but trying is not torture.

Exercise 3. Your own interlocutor

A lot of people don't like the way their voice and pronunciation sound on the recording. And this is not just that, because all the mistakes and articulation that is far from ideal are immediately audible. Read passages on the recorder, listen to yourself, correct what sounds ugly and does not suit you.

Exercise 4. Breathing is life

One of the most important secrets beautiful voice- setting the correct diaphragmatic breathing. All singers, orators and announcers breathe with their belly, not with their chest. It is the diaphragm that creates such a flow of air in which the vocal cords begin to vibrate cleanly and powerfully. Also practice distributing your breath so that there is enough for long sentences. To do this, inhale and, for example, pull one vowel until the air in the lungs is completely empty. Inflating balloons is also very effective method breathing training when setting the voice.

All tongue twisters cannot be renegotiated, not renegotiated

Of course, all of the above is just a small part of all those methods that exist in order to make your speech clear and beautiful. Although even performing these exercises will already lead you to completely new level... If you want to know more on this topic and be able to do better, I recommend it. Studying with her, you can reach unprecedented heights. She also has an entertaining book - "Speak beautifully and confidently." I also recommended them to my new acquaintance, with whom we eventually got out of the elevator, and I really hope that he will also quickly be able to improve his speech. After all, he is an incredibly talented guy, and so I want the world to hear him.

Do not hesitate to reveal yourself to the world! Good luck in your diction training! On this I say goodbye to you for today - until we meet again, on the pages of the blog.

Hello again! Today we will talk about how to improve diction. . It's no secret that excellent diction is very important for a person in Everyday life... But about 30% of people in the world suffer from diction impairment to one degree or another. If you got to this page, then you really want to improve your diction, so I suggest you go straight to solving this problem.

Exercises to improve diction:

1) tongue twisters

They are known to us from early childhood. For those who have forgotten, these are a kind of rhythmic sentences with a choice of words, where certain sounds often come across. Regularly speaking tongue twisters can dramatically improve your diction, making your speech quick and clear.

It's worth starting with the simplest tongue twisters. To begin with, the speed of pronunciation should not be too high, bring the pronunciation of sounds and words to clarity. Then you can move on to more complex and multi-level tongue twisters.

Once you're done with that, you can add an obstruction in the mouth to make it harder to speak with correct articulation. You can put a walnut, grape cork, or whatever you have the imagination for in your mouth. It will also greatly improve your diction.

Download assembly of tongue twisters in pdf format

Https://yadi.sk/i/tfiAY1PMqtx7N h3> 2) Breathing

With long, clear and beautiful speech, we often face shortness of breath. This is especially evident when, in the form of intermittent and not expressed speech. This can be corrected by training the diaphragm. You can train your diaphragm too different ways... Start by inflating balloons. Then start pulling vowel sounds, at first it will turn out badly, but over time you can go out for 20 - 30 seconds. Then you can change the pitch of your voice.

3) Articulation exercises

Lower your lower jaw. Move it slowly to the right and left, then up and down.
Stand up and place your arms around your chest. Bending over, as you exhale, say the vowels "y" and "o" for a long time and stretched out in a low voice.

Open your mouth and smile, then start moving your tongue from one corner of your lips to another. In this case, the jaw and lips should remain motionless.
Close your mouth and lick your teeth under the lower lip, and then under the upper lip. Keep your jaws and lips motionless.
Open your mouth and smile, and smoothly slide your tongue over your upper teeth, touching each tooth, as if counting them. Be careful not to move your jaw. Then the same action only on the lower lips.
Close your mouth and with the tense tip of your tongue rest against either the left or the right cheek.
Open your mouth and smile. Raise your tongue to your nose, then lower it to your chin.

Regular diction training will lead to its irreparable improvement. Perform these exercises daily and the result will not keep you waiting. I wish you every success in improving your diction!

And finally, you have a clear example of excellent diction 😉

Not everyone is able to reproduce sounds smoothly and clearly. This indicates problems with diction, which creates a certain inconvenience and discomfort for a person in communication both in childhood and in adulthood. This issue is especially relevant for people whose activities are related to public speaking. If you or your loved ones have such a problem, then do not despair: all defects are amenable to correction. It is only necessary to regularly apply a set of exercises aimed at improving diction.

Why is it worth correcting diction

The art of speaking beautifully and clearly requires practice.

Diction is a distinct and clear pronunciation of words and syllables. In this case, correct articulation must be present - the activation of the speech organs, which allow the reproduction of sounds. The speech of a person suffering from diction disorders becomes slurred and deaf. This leads to difficulties in communication, because it is difficult for others to understand him. Defects are the cause of this deviation. speech apparatus, for example, lack of the ability to open the mouth wide when speaking or poor mobility of the lower jaw.

In the presence of such violations, you should immediately begin to perform special sets of exercises. If a child suffers from diction impairment, these techniques will help him improve school performance, make new friends and raise self-esteem. The adult will also experience positive changes. Start practicing and be sure that you will not have to wait long to see the first results.

Normalizing speech allows you to expand your social circle and confidently speak in front of an audience.

How to improve your speech quickly

To date, a sufficient number of simple ways that allow any person to independently improve the quality of speech activity. Let's consider the most affordable and effective ones.

Articulation gymnastics

Speech gymnastics is aimed at training the articulatory apparatus, which includes certain muscle groups. It consists of several exercises.

Speech training - most efficient method improving diction

These exercises should be done in slow motion.

First, let's develop a soft palate. Do the following in order:

Yawn with your mouth shut.
Make a gargle-like motion.
Play any vowel sounds when yawning.
Give the tongue the shape of a scapula, reach it up to the palate, then return it to the bases of the teeth, repeat several times.

Now we need to work on the lower jaw. Two exercises will help here.

Sit at the table, rest your elbows on the tabletop. Open your mouth a little. Force the jaw downward, while clenching your hands into fists and pressing them on the jaw from below.
Make circular movements with the lower jaw: forward and backward, down and up.

Then start working out your cheeks:

Simulate rinsing by puffing out your cheeks and pulling them in.
Take air in your mouth and distill it first between your cheeks, and then to your lips.
Tighten your cheeks, purse your lips and push air out of your mouth, trying to overcome resistance.

The following exercises are designed to train your lips:

Close your jaws, tighten your lips and try to smile.
The exercise is called "proboscis - smile". Fold your lips into a tube, pull them forward and count to 10, then return to the starting position.
Close the dentition and perform movements with your lips in a circle, down and up, to the sides.
Pull your upper lip to expose the row of teeth. Then perform a similar exercise with the bottom.
Open your mouth, pull your lips to your teeth and smile.

Finally, complete the set of exercises for the language:

Perform circular actions, stopping alternately near each of the cheeks.
Massage your tongue with your teeth.
Place your tongue on your lower lip and blow on the tip.
Pull your tongue forward, fold it with a spatula and place it on your lip. Hold it in this position for 10 seconds.
Try to reach with your tongue first to the nose (as far as possible), then to the level of the chin.
Roll your tongue and slide it back and forth.
Turn your tongue to one side and the other.
Lift the end of your tongue, push it forward, then return it to the mouth.
Place the edge of the tongue near the lower teeth, lift the middle part of the tongue to the palate and form an arc, touching the upper dentition. Open your mouth a little, try to keep your jaw motionless.
With the tip of your tongue, touch the base of the upper and lower teeth, then alternately on both cheeks.
Bring the edge of the tongue to the upper lip, then to the lower lip, then to the left and right corners of the lips.

Video: basic exercises for articulatory gymnastics

Pronunciation of individual sounds

Vowel sounds are reproduced near the dentition, in the area of the hard palate and larynx. The following exercises will help you reproduce them correctly.

To normalize the reproduction of the sounds "I" and "Y", slowly and clearly say the words silt, willow, lance, feast, whale, or, leaf, circus, rear, cheese, son, soap, was, bull, smoke, fish.
When the vowel “i” is played, the mouth opens to the size of the thickness of the little finger, the tongue is in a flat state, its tip reaches the lower dentition, the middle touches the palate, the lips are spread apart. The sound "y" is pronounced with minor changes. To do this, move your tongue back a little.
The following words will give an opportunity to get rid of problems with the pronunciation of "E" and "E": echo, extra, this, epic, emergency, era, ate, spruce, rode, raccoon, Eva, Elena.
The sound "E" is pronounced in this position: the mouth opens slightly, the edges of the teeth are exposed. The tongue is located near the front teeth of the lower row, its middle part and base rise, then come into contact with the molars. The vowel "E" should be pronounced longer and slightly strain the vocal apparatus.
Now work on the pronunciation of "A" and "Z". Use the words act, stork, attack, Anna, ball, poppy, cancer, pit, start, yar, berry, anchor, yak, manger, rage, poison.
When playing "A", the mouth must be opened so that two fingers fit between the teeth. The tongue is in a relaxed position. Its end is not in contact with the lower dentition. When pronouncing "I", the edge of the tongue should be pushed forward.
Next, let's move on to the vowels "U" and "U". They are practiced using the words morning, mustache, coal, mind, tooth, bonds, bow, court, beetle, narrow, whirligig, Jura, youth, south, Julia, cabin boy, humor, holy fool.
While pronouncing "U", round your lips and pull them forward. The distance between the teeth should be equal to the thickness of the thumb. Pull your tongue back, lower its base. When playing "U", raise the middle part of the tongue a little higher
We proceed to the vowel sounds "O" and "Yo". Pronounce the words axis, windows, wasps, lake, hoop, donkey, hedgehog, tree, capacity, yokat, fidget.
While pronouncing "O", stretch your lips forward and give them a rounded shape. Move your tongue back, lift its back. It should not touch your teeth. The vowel "Yo" is played longer and more intensely.

Pronunciation exercises are best done in front of a mirror: this way you can more accurately control the correctness of their implementation.

At the next stage, you can proceed to training consonants. First, clearly pronounce each of these sounds. Next, we combine them with vowels in a certain order. The step-by-step technique looks like this:

Let's start with “P – B”. Pronounce the words: steam, pop, daddy, drip, oak, tank, pigeon, bob, holster, white.
Then move on to the combinations of steam-bar, regiment-bolt, pass-bass, sing-bel, sleep-sleep, drill-bureau, was-beat.
For the F – V sounds, the following words must be pronounced: fact, snort, pound, jacket, forward, giraffe, faithful, Valya, light, prominent, knock out.
Combinations: Ivan-Selifan, water-phase, Vika-ficus, about to break, fork-Filka, Fomka-Fyokla, firm-snort.
For the sounds "T – D": there, tank, ton, here, that, aunt, crowded, lady, go, two, fords, woodpecker, smoke, day.
Combinations: there-dam, talk-dock, tom-house, yours-deuce, grass-firewood, body-case, shadow-day, cake-grater, dar-uncle.
For training the sounds "S – Z": son, court, sit down, strength, seedlings, vinegar, cart, winter, splinter, appeal, goat.
Combinations: sam-zam, soup-tooth, lard-hall, braids-goats, weedy-dawns, cheese-sir, bring-down, session-sat down, blue-Zina.
For sounds "W – Z": ball, smart, shawl, cannon, dried, shower, tin, pity, beetle, acorn, puddle, thirst, gun.
Combinations: your-important, ball-heat, joke-creepy, live-sew, wide-fat.
For the sounds “K – X, G”: where, how, bush, pick, current, mole, gas, runner, grief, weight, worse, ghetto, withers, chorus, shepherd, trachea.
Combinations: swing-gazelle, bone-guest, count-goal, code-year, club-stupid, whip-bend, Kesha-Gosha.
For the sound "U": thing, pike, sorrel, happiness, brush, squeak, cloak.
Combinations: tongs-tongs, prowl-food, cabbage soup-look, aunt-brush.
For the sound "H": sensitive, hour, frequent, speech, bee, charm, patronymic.
Combinations of wind-evening, so what, closely-honestly, sensitive-fur coat, aunt-clearly.
For the sound "C": whole, heron, circus, king, swim, flowers, saucer.
Combinations: clink-juice, color-light, target-sat, street-fox.
For the sounds "M", "N", "L", "Y", "R": mom, poppy, crumpled, lamp, nose, cute, mint, our, bottom, moon, Olya, watering can, wound, pain, risk, spruce, talk, T-shirt, loach.
Combinations: small-crumpled, familiar-familiar, soap-cute, whine-thread, nana-nanny, lac-lag, rad-row, bow-hatch, marriage-boyak, crayfish-varnish, fire-fire, hand-bow.

Video: practicing pronunciation of sound combinations

Tongue twisters for clear pronunciation of words and phrases

These are small phrases, with a certain combination of sounds that makes it difficult to pronounce quickly. They help you practice individual syllables. The main rule of training is do not try to immediately pronounce the phrase at a fast pace. Repeat it slowly at first. After you begin to articulate clearly, speed up the pace.

It is not easy to master the art of speaking tongue twisters quickly, but the result will definitely please you

Exercise daily and you will see results in a few weeks. It is not necessary to use a large number of tongue twisters, five to ten phrases will be enough.

Start with simple tongue twisters and move on to complex phrases as you master them.

Here are some examples of good tongue twisters:

“Prokop came - dill was boiling, Prokop left - dill was boiling. As under Prokop dill boiled, so dill boiled without Prokop ”.
"The radish rarely grew in the garden bed, the garden bed was rarely in order."
"He is not stupid who is stingy with words, but he is stupid who is stupid in what he does."
"A cuckoo bought a cuckoo hood, put on a cuckoo hood, how funny it is in the hood."
"I was already running along a crooked path, he did not stamp a single foot, he would have stamped but he could not, because he had no legs."
"Two ships maneuvered, maneuvered, but did not catch it."

Video: News presenter speaks tongue twisters

Correct posture and strong breathing

Correct posture and breathing are the key to full and clear speech

The easiest way to improve your posture is to use the old book-on-head exercise. Place a book on your head and start walking slowly around the room. Then incorporate squats and arm movements into the exercise. Such a complex will help you learn to maintain the rate of breathing necessary for monologue speech.

Speech breathing is indeed highly dependent on posture.

The development of breathing will allow you to deliver a long speech and not be interrupted for pauses in inappropriate places. This is necessary in order for the audience to understand you correctly. Let's start with the exhalation training:

Place your feet shoulder-width apart and place your hands on your belt.
Press your lips together, leaving a small hole.
Exhale slowly, the air should come out with resistance.
Read any quatrain during the exercise.

If your physical condition allows, you can add to breathing exercises the elements physical activity such as squats, walking, or even light jogging.

Let's move on to training inhalation:

Lean forward, keeping your back parallel to the floor. Take a breath. Then take the starting position. Exhale at a slow pace and at the same time say "gim-m-m".
Take the starting position. Close your mouth, inhale air through your nose, dilating your nostrils. Pat them with your fingers as they release air.
Get into a recumbent position. Place one hand on your stomach and the other on the bottom of your chest. Inhale deeply through your nose. Lift your belly up, your chest should expand. Then exhale slowly. Repeat several times.
Take a standing position, place your hand on your chest, place the other near your mouth. When you doha and exhale, pronounce vowel sounds. If you get the feeling of yawning, you are doing the exercise successfully.
Next, do the same exercise, but now extend the exhalation and inhalation by making a light push with the diaphragm.

What even improves diction

To achieve desired result the correct intonation will help. Read any text with expression, and you will notice positive changes in the timbre of the voice, and in pronunciation, and in tempo. You can use acting methods of diction training. Put a cork in your mouth walnuts or pencil and read a few tongue twisters or any text you like. The words should be pronounced at a slow pace, pronouncing each letter well.

Reading aloud with expression will help you learn the correct semantic intonation.

Another great method is based on the need to hear yourself from the outside. Record your own voice on a voice recorder and then listen to the recording. This will help you spot any mistakes in speech right away. Re-record, but now try to fix the flaws. You can read a poem or any artistic text... Repeat until you achieve perfect results.

The exercises described in the article to improve diction do not require any special training. They can be performed by both adults and children. With a responsible approach to training, you will notice progress in a couple of weeks.