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Vocabulary: speech

The way we speak influences our relationships with the people around us...

Language and tongues have two functions: expressing oneself, and of course, communicating with other people. Expressing your thoughts clearly, making oneself understood and heard correctly is fundamental.

To speak

To say something

Articulation/ enunciation

To articulate/ to enunciate

To pronounce

To utter -> an utterance

Pronunciation

To pronounce something correctly/ wrongly

To mispronounce a name

Unpronounceable: difficult to pronounce

A tongue twister

stammer/ stutter

To be quiet/ to shut up

To keep quiet/ to be silent

A speech defect

To lisp/ have a lisp/ speak with a lisp

To have a nasal voice/

Talk through one's nose

To stammer/ to stutter

Speech therapy/ speech therapist

Working with a speech therapist

LANGUAGES and ways of speaking:

A language/ a tongue

Formal/ informal language

A sound

A foreign language

Ancient/ modern languages

A dialect

Slang/ slangy

Colloquial/ familiar language

Baby talk

To speak fluent English

To speak English fluently

French speaking/ a French speaker

An English speaker

A German speaker

A Spanish speaker

- His mother tongue/ his native language

- To speak with a Greek accent

- To have a strong accent

- To have a good/ poor accent

- It's said that...

- That goes without saying...

- So to speak,

- That's saying a lot!

- I told you so !

- You're telling me!

- A tongue-twister: she sells seashells by the seashore, and the shells she sells are seashore shells, I'm sure !

Hope your tongue isn't totally twisted and your brains not totally meddled...

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1. At my theatre-workshop, we worked on , to make sure we our lines clearly.

2. Tom was so surprised when he saw her, that he couldn’t a single word and gaped.

3. I’m afraid this word is really for non-native speakers.

4. Future King George VI suffered from a strong , and had to go through long trainings to be able to deliver speeches.

5. With will-power and good , he managed to overcome this defect.

6. When writing to your potential employer you should use simple, but language.

7. Paul has a tendency to speak English and should be careful.

8.He was, , petrified when he heard the news.

9. After studying in Cambridge for a year, he was now speaking and wasn’t shy at all when speaking.

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