No one can expect to become a distinguished orator overnight.Experience, practice, and study are necessary to success in speaking, as in every other profession, yet every person can improve and will indeed find it profitable and beneficial to enlarge his conversational powers. Incidentally, I frequently wonder why so few teachers of classes in public speaking pay so little regard to the voice, per se. Their lessons seem to be concerned wholly with what the person is to say in his address, rather than how he is to say it, and never by any chance is the student taught how to project his voice and make sure that he will be heard. Yet to what avail is a fine speech if the speaker’s voice has reached only those within a radius of a few feet?
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