Speak English Fluently

240 Pages·2016·1.01 MB·English

by  Saraswat Mahendra.

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By : Dr. Mahendra Saraswat
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Contents
Sl.No. Page No.
01. Acquire the Power of Pronunciation Skill 2–11
02. Let Yourself Grasp the Pompous Shortened Forms 12–19
03. Bank Upon the Proficient Vocabulary 20–45
04. Train Your Tongue 46–61
05. Befriend with Speech Fluency Techniques 62–76
06. Let Down Your Fluency Obstacles 77–91
07. Divide and Rule Your Speech 92–96
08. Realize the Beauty of Pauses 97–112
09. Speak in Rhythmic Fluency 113–123
10. Control Your Speech Delivery 124–136
11. Tag Your Speech with Short Responses 137–157
12. Secret of Successful Spontaneous Speech 158–182
13. Beautify Your Speech with Drops 183–191
14. The Final Touch 192–234
Realize the Power of Speech Fluency
English, the powerful International language, still
rules the major minds of cosmopolitan Indians. Every-
where, whether it’s an institution or an industry, people
who speak English better are treated above par than
those who are not able to speak it fluently. And fluency
of speech gives a magnetic character to its speaker and it
influences positively the person to whom you speak.
Though you read English better, write English better
and even you are able to manage to speak English, yet
sometimes, you feel that your English utterance doesn’t
leave any impression on your counterpart. It means that
your vast knowledge of English isn’t helping you to get
the required results and it lacks something. And your
adequate knowledge of reading and writing English is
facing the difficulty to move, that can put you in
dilemma when you have to see a daemonic dignitary, you
have to face an implex interview, and you have to
represent a vivid view, then you find that your treasure
of English doesn’t wish to assist you.
This is the meek point where you are compelled to
think why your English speech is so lame. This is high
time to realize the power of speech fluency. In absence of
speech fluency, English utterance looks like mockery. It
is the speech fluency that bestow the gift of successful
attempts. It makes you successful in your presentation
or discourse. It makes you successful in your interview
for an important assignment. And at the helm, it
brightens up your career.
Fluency is the soul of any language, so of English.
Fluency transforms your personality as a charismatic
and magnetic one. Fluency is the great booster of your
self-confidence.
It is the speech fluency that places you as an
important person in others’ views. They judge you by
your fluency of speech than by your treasure of qualifica-
tions. Even speech fluency is so potent that it can
establish you prominently in your society, in your
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profession, and in your enterprise. Fluency gives an
extra edge to your charming personality.
During an interview session for Maths Teacher,
merely a second class PCM graduate was selected, while
the first class post-graduate with 92·7% marks was
rejected. Do you know the reason behind the successful
selection ? It was the Fluency of Speech.
That was the prompt that drove me to inscribe some
hints and tips to young fellows striving hard for English
speech fluency. And the result is in your hands.
Believe that you are born to achieve high degree of
speech fluency. The only requirement is that you go
through each page of this book carefully, attentively,
religiously and patiently, and follow every command
honestly. And you’ll find that your ENGLISH SPEECH is
getting golden wings of FLUENCY with ease.
With all my best wishes,
—Dr. Mahendra Saraswat
Speak English
Fluently
1
Acquire the Power of
Pronunciation Skill
Do you know which tongue is mostly understood by
the world ? Yes, you are correct. It is English. Though
we have fourteen languages officially recognised in the
Indian Constitution, English still enjoys the privilege of
high goodwill in this continent. It is the only language
that is spoken far and wide in India and accepted as a
universal ambassador in every nook and corner not only
here but throughout the world.
It’s a matter of pleasure that English can be found on
language menu in every part of the country, and
proudly boasts of an important curricular subject. Most
of Indians study English since their childhood and are
able to read, write and speak. In spite of that there is
something wrong that debars so many people to manage
properly the spoken part of English. This misdemeanour
has a definite reason and the reason is that
We’ve Learnt English in an Erroneous Way
Every language has two major aspects, i.e., the
Spoken part, and the Written part. Now you recall, when
you appeared in the world, what did you do
first––Speaking or Writing. Yes, it was speech. You had
spoken first. You spoke your unknown language, and
you kept yourself in speech. It was the writing that came
after about 500 days. Certainly, it was the spoken part
of language which came first and then the written part.
This is the root cause that creates difficulties to
speak English fluently and properly. Because we fail to
adopt the natural way of speech. What do we do
generally ? We try to speak in written way of English.
While the natural way of learning is to speak first, then
write. Have you ever thought why you are most compe-
tent to speak your mother tongue fluently ? Because you
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learnt that to speak first and you also succeeded to
manage efficiently the written part of your mother tongue.
What we have done in the case of English ? We have
learnt to write English first in our homes, in our schools,
and in our tutorials. That’s why we always endeavour to
speak in the written style. So we fail to succeed in
gaining the speech fluency in English. It is the spoken
part of language that comes first, and the written part of
language comes later on. And this is the only natural
way to gain speech fluency.
Speak in Natural Way
Natural way of speech is the prime requirement for
development of fluency. What is the natural way of
speech ? Just imagine that you are a little kid now. If you
need anything from your mummy, what would you say ?
You would ask : “giveittome”. Would you think to learn
these words ‘give’, ‘it’, ‘to’ and ‘me’ separately and connect
them. These separate four words ‘give’, ‘it’, ‘to’ and ‘me’
would be the same as the single word ‘giveittome’ for you.

Things to Remember
The characteristics of following consonants :
1. G always remains silent if followed by ‘N’. For
example, Gnat (nat), Gnaw (no), Gnocchi (noke),
Gnosis (nosis) etc.
2. K always remains silent if followed by ‘N’. For
example, Knack (nak), Knight (nit), Know (no),
Knuckle (nukl) etc.
3. P always remains silent if followed by ‘S’ or ‘T’. For
example, Psalm (sam), Psycho (siko), Ptomaine
(tomain), ptosis (tosis) etc.
4. Q always followed by ‘U’ (except Q–boat, the war-ship
also used as merchantship), and gives the sound of
kw. For example, Quality (kwoliti), Quantum
(kwonte m), Queen (kwen), Quote (kwot) etc.
5. W followed by ‘r’ loses its sound. For example, Wran-
gler (ranglr), Wreath (reth), Wring (ring), write (rit)
etc.
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And you would speak these four words in a single
utterance without any pause in between them. Thus, in
a natural speech, the group of words is uttered as a
single word–unit. In fact, natural talk comes out from
the mouth in a group of words. While we try to speak
word by word instead of group of words. Though
sometimes our speech may be limited to even a single
word too. Then what is the idea behind the natural talk.
Natural talk consists of Idea Units. You can define an
idea-unit as a ‘Group of Words’ that has a ‘meaningful
utterance’.
A natural speaker speaks in idea-units. When a child
conceive an idea in its mind it comes out from its mouth
naturally and spontaneously. Child doesn’t make any
conscious effort to edit the words to be uttered.
Speak in Idea Units Only
This is your first instrument to acquire speech
fluency. Idea Units are your key to make you fluent.
Therefore, always try to speak in idea-units only.
Connecting two or more words together and utterance
thereof like a single word makes the real sense, and
bestow you pleasant fluency. Henceforth, speak in word–
groups, not word by word.
Though you are insisted upon here to speak in word–
groups, but in exceptional cases, you may convey your
message even in a single word, and in that case that
single word will form an idea-unit too. For example, take
the word ‘No’. Does it convey any idea ? No. Suppose
your brother spontaneously says ‘No’. Is it making any
sense to you ? No. So, it cannot be called an idea-unit.
But this single word can be converted to an idea-unit if
it is said in the right context. If you ask your brother,
‘Are you going to see the Taj Mahal ?’ and he replies ‘No’.
In this context ‘no’ forms an idea–unit. Therefore, ‘no’ is
a contextual idea-unit here. So the utterances may be of
two types, i.e., idea-units those do not require any
support from context, e.g., descriptive utterances, like ‘I
shall go (Aishelgo)’, ‘Give it to me (givitumee)’ etc., and
idea–units those require a context, e.g., interrogative
utterances, i.e., utterances begin with question-words
like What, When, Who, Where, Why, How etc.