What you'll learn:
- Learn how to compose articulate and persuasive speech (in conversation & presentation)
- Prune filler words and empty language from your speaking
- Expand your vocabulary and learn how to properly employ new words
- Sound more poetic and graceful with your expressions
- Learn effective sentence structure to increase clarity
- Diagnose your sources of poor language and locate articulate alternatives
This course has one simple goal: elevate the way you speak to be more articulate so that people want to listen to what you have to say. Our society is facing an epidemic of poor communication skills. Our vocabulary is vague and sloppy, our conversations littered with “ums”, “you knows”, and “I feel likes” and our thoughts are predictable. We speak the same set of 1000 words and can't break out of our stale word cycle into the realm of verbal freshness or originality!
Yet even with our language deficiencies we still deeply reverence for power of words. Why are motivational speeches among the most sought out YouTube videos? Why does our culture become so captivated with those individuals who are able to make sense of the unfocused ideas and disorder that occupies our minds? Why do we find quotes on every social media grid, in every garden, in every garage? Because we understand words to have power. And the people who can harness this power to articulately express themselves typically attain better satisfaction and opportunities in their personal, professional, and intellectual lives.
That’s why I created BetterSpeak (now hosted here on Udemy!). I believe a better world is possible where people embrace language as the superpower that it is. To be clear, this is not a public speaking course. I’m not teaching how to eradicate nervousness, eliminate your accent, develop charisma, control body language, or master conversation. Rather, you will learn to upgrade your vocabulary, prune filler words and empty language, diagnose sources of poor language in your life, speak more figuratively and poetically, and see how history's greatest orators have employed these same techniques.
I hope you would consider joining me in learning the art of articulate communication. To the adventures ahead!
